Why am I getting null as the status?

Through the following code, a user named tester adds another user named sanika to his friend list.The SubscriptionMode is set to accept_all.

The function connectTester connects tester to the server and then after adding sanika, tester tries to find the status of sanika which was set as Having Lunch but instead null gets printed. Why is it so ?

publicstaticvoid main(String[] args){
         try{
             Connection connection =newXMPPConnection("localhost");
             connection.connect();
             connection.login("sanika","tester");
             Roster r = connection.getRoster();
             r.setSubscriptionMode(Roster.SubscriptionMode.accept_all);
             Presence p = r.getPresence("sanika@sanika.com");  
             p.setType(Presence.Type.available);
             p.setStatus("Having Lunch :)");
             connection.sendPacket(p);
             Thread.sleep(3000);// SLEEP FOR 3 SECONDS

             connectTester(); 

             Thread.sleep(30000);// SLEEP FOR 30 SECONDS

         }   catch(Exception exc){
             exc.printStackTrace();
             }  
    }

    publicstaticvoid connectTester(){
        try{
            Connection connection =newXMPPConnection("localhost");
            connection.connect();
            connection.login("tester","tester");
            Roster r = connection.getRoster();
            String group[]={"Friend List"};
            r.createGroup("Friend List");
            r.createEntry("sanika@sanika.com","sanika", group);
            Presence p = r.getPresence("sanika@sanika.com");

            System.out.println(p.getStatus());
                            // THE ABOVE STATEMENT PRINTS NULL


        }catch(Exception exc){
            exc.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

The statement System.out.println(p.getStatus()) inside the function connectTester prints null.