Bex Pearle

Nope I wasn't selective, it is on the document checklist. I phoned immigration up earlier today and they said it is valid for 12 months away. I have heard quite a lot of people say they they applied for it before they sent the visa application off. Rammygirl I am in Australia. Will not be leaving the country at all next year.

Applied for it now as just going by their website, which states to submit police checks from any other country you have lived in with the application. https://www.border.gov.au/Trav/Visa-1/801-/Partner-visa-(subclasses-820-and-801)-document-checklist Police certificates from each country in which anyone in your application has spent a total of 12 months or more in the past 10 years since turning 16 years of age. Provide the original certificates and keep a copy for yourself.

Thanks. Hopefully I hear back in early Jan. Gonna apply for Aus police check then. Hopefully that one will be faster in replying.

Hi guys I have applied for my ACRO police certificate as I am going to apply for de facto partner visa in March. I did the application online. How long was it typically before you got a response? I applied around two weeks ago. The person I nominated to countersign it hasn't been contacted yet either. Sorry in advance as I am sure I will have lots of questions re this visa. Rebecca.

Thanks my partner phoned immigration today and they said there just needs to be proof of a stable job and that we meet the requirements. So all is good I will apply for my uk police check next month and get the ball rolling.

Hi guys There isn't a minimum income stated on the government website that the sponsor must earn. My partner has worked for the same company for three years but on a 20 hour week contract. Recently she has started a six month relief position working full time at the same company but her payslip still says she is contracted to 20 hours and has the rest as additional hours. We hoped she would be able to get a full time job during the course of our relationship but the additional hours were all she could manage. On her wage alone, as it is now with the additional hours, she could just about to cover our bills and rent alone without me working. I do have some savings in a uk bank, but not a huge amount. We have very little savings here together. I am healthy and degree educated, and have supported myself here for a year and a half with no issues. With this into consideration, and that we will have just been living together 12 months if we lodge the visa, would we be better going to the UK together? She has a British passport and so doesn't need a visa.

Thanks Because we have only been in a de facto since March, I want ways to strengthen our case that our relationship is genuine (if that is possible to do). Hoping a couple extra stat decs will help us.

Thanks so much for taking the time to reply. It is a shame we do not have the support of her family but I am glad they don't need statements from both sides. Our lease runs out in Feb so I think we will probably submit it in March so we can renew our lease. My visa expires early April, so we have a good while to prepare.

Hi all I met my partner last Oct on a working holiday visa and are going to apply for a partner visa next year. My visa runs out in April so I know we will be pushing it fine. I have started filling out the application now - I put the date we moved in together as the start of the relationship. Our relationship is registered in NSW where we live, but our application will be submitted before we have been together for 12 months. I have noticed that the form doesn’t have an option for relationship registration, which I am guessing we need to add it in the box asking why we are applying before 12 months? We have plenty of financial evidence of our relationship – joint bank accounts, joint lease, car insurance but my concern is the social aspect. While we have receipts of hotel bookings and plenty of photos we are both quite introverted and don’t have many friends here. My brother is an Australian citizen and him and his wife said they will sign a stat dec and we are going to ask our mutual acquaintances if they will, one is a police officer if that has any weight at all. To make it worse, my partner no longer speaks to her mother and I am unsure if her sister or father will sign one because they reject every effort we make to see them. I am worried this will go badly against us. 　Any advise at all would be appreciated on evidence and also how to document it – I see on the online form there are just boxes to fill in with text for each of the four sections. I am unsure really if the approach they want is something like: 　 We support each other financially. We share the cost of food and social activities. Please see attached joint bank account statements from x date to present. And so on and so forth.

Thanks for this, much appreciated. Think we will go with a migration company. I need to research the best.

Hi I'm near the end of my first whv and found a gov article today about the taxing of whv holders. It said from July all will be taxed as foreign resident. This will significantly reduce our earnings. Just wanted you to know. By the way, I'm in Sydney and would love to meet friends x

Hi, I came to Australia April last year. Did a bit of travelling, completed my farming and then moved back to Sydney and got a job in a call centre. In October I met a girl and fell in love. We both want the same things and I've never met anyone like her. She has met my brother here and is great with his kids (he's been here years) and I have met her family. We have opened a joint bank account and are going to register our relationship this week to meet the requirements of the partner visa. We will move in together in early April (would do it now except I have a lease). While we are doing things fast we also know it's what we want long term. We will apply next March, a month before my visa expires. We have tons of photos already but I've heard photos together are not really seen as evidence. We will be able to have family statements about us and photos of us with each other's families. Any experience to share?

Hello, Looking for new friends

Thanks. With things like this I often start panicking that I've done something wrong. Now I can just panic about finding work :arghh:

Hi, I applied for my first working holiday visa now I am confused. My visa got approved in November - I haven't looked at my Immiaccount until now. I noticed an 'attach document' section, clicked on it, and saw all this: [h=4]Your personal documents[/h] Certified copies of the biographical pages of the current passports or travel documents of all people included in the application (these are the pages with the holder's photo and personal details and the issue/expiry dates). A certified copy of your birth certificate showing both parents' names. If you do not have a birth certificate and are unable to get one, you must provide a certified copy of the identification pages of at least one of the following documents: family book showing both parents' names identification document issued by the government court-issued documents that verify your identity. [*]If your name has changed: a certified copy of evidence of the name change. [*]Two recent passport-sized photographs (45 m x 35 mm). These photographs should be of the head and shoulders only against a plain background Print the name of the person on the back of each photograph. [*]If you have served in the armed forces of any country: certified copies of military service record or discharge papers. [*]Evidence of sufficient funds: certified copy of a bank statement showing you have access to funds of at least AUD 5000 Can anyone tell me who has had a working holiday visa recently if they attached copies of all this? Thanks, Becky.