Credit card surcharge by the Department
An announcement to all Down Under Visa clients:
As you probably know, when we pay the Government Visa Application Charge to the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP, formerly DIAC), we pay them by credit card.
They have two payment options only:
- Credit card
- Bank cheque
- Pay us the extra surcharge, and we will pay it to them, or;
- Get a bank cheque, and queue up at a DIPB office to pay it, then email us the receipt
Starting 22 March 2014 they will be charging a surcharge for all credit card payments.
9/04/2014 NB. As of yet they have not introduced the surcharge. We will let you know.
We still don't know what percentage it will be, because they haven't told us yet. But it will happen.
Your options for payments made after this date will be:
Our apologies to those whom this will affect, but you will understand that there's not a thing we can do about this. It's out of our hands.
To those of you who have applications ready, suggest that you pay the balance ASAP so that we can lodge before this date. And understand that we can't do anything at the last minute.
Who are Down Under Visa? Who is Jeff Harvie?
Jeff Harvie and the Down Under Visa team have been doing this for a lot of years! Down Under Visa have brought thousands of couples to Australia from South East Asia over the years. Mostly from the Philippines, but we help increasing numbers of couples where the visa applicant is from China, Thailand, Vietnam or Cambodia. And what this means is we see a lot of success....and we also see failures when people go it alone after talking to their mate, or their relative, or that minimal-care-no-responsibility Facebook group run by Steve and Maribeth based on their own visa application! One application, and they feel qualified to advise others! It's not even LEGAL to do that!
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