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LHR/MEL/Europe FF
I think the bottom line is that you may be seen as an 'overstayer'. You entered under one passport and there may not be a record of you leaving.
What problems will that cause? Who knows. You may (or may not) be able to get a new electronic travel authority in the future. You may make it to Australia and be stopped for questioning (I'd keep your outbound boarding passes to the USA from this time, and any record you have taken the flight (such as FF miles posting)).
Or nothing may happen.
Sounds like trying to sort it out is proving difficult. Unless you might have an urgent need to travel to Australia in future - one where you absolutely can't wait if your ETA request is refused - I would probably just let it go and sort it out later.
1) Overstay penalty is 3 years ban from date of violation, not be able to get a visa during the ban period.
2) I was told to send in a Form 929 together with the pertinent docs (the 2 passports bio pages, boarding passes, US CBP admittance slips). It can only be sent electronically by the way.
I am much more surprised by the puzzling "fact" that the passports used to enter Australia, have no trace in their system? Or unable to find such records... How could this be?
3) Have a potential need to use PER as a destination for an Aeroplan miniRTW award redemption. Hence the interest to sort this out sooner than later. That is the only reason for me to make the effort to sort it out.
Will try the Form 929 route being the "have tried my best effort" type of thing. If no response from them, that is it. I thought our 2016 visit would be the last time we went (solely to revisit Vivid Sydney) after frequent trips in the 2000 to 2009. But as fate would have it that the so-called Unicorn, Qantas F award seats were available hence we went again. Else we would not even have the recent visit. lol.