Me and my partner are applying for a de facto- spouse visa. Do you need to certify all documents including copies of bills, tenancy agreement etc as well as passport details? Silly question but i read somewhere that you don`t have to just your passport etc !! Thanks
They prefer certified copies of everything apparently, as they don't return them. Also, they seem to like the documents certified even if you send the originals! Bizarre I know!
Hi - We are applying for the prospective marriage visa. I read and understood that bills etc can just be normal copies and you just need to certify passports/ written statements etc.
I'm in process of getting together copies of all sorts of things to try and prove defacto relationship.
So far I have mortgage certificates, solicitor's letters, letters to each other, council tax bills and joint bank account statements. None of these are certified.
We're going to get statements from family and friends - would it be best to have these typed, so they're legible, or handwritten so they're more personal? Any thoughts? And should each person add their address and phone number too?
We've thought about putting together holiday photos with creditcard statements from the time to show that we were there at a particular time and date - is this overkill?!
Please don't laugh at me, I've not done this before and I have no idea how much we are supposed to send off! Whoever gets our application might die of boredom going through it all! ("And this is our dog when we bought the house, and here he is again with us at the beach, and this is my grandad, and this is me when I was 5....." !!)
Ha, I always swore I was not going to get married just for a visa.... but maybe I was too hasty! At our interview (with oz army) they joked that they'd had a vicar there the day before and they could have married us there and then! (I got slightly panicked, and said "But I thought we'd count as de facto!?" very flustered!)
I'm hoping that we'll have enough 'proof' to get through - to be honest I'm more worried about going overboard and giving them so much that they don't want to look through it all and send it back to us!
Can't hurt to put in a few pics, especially if they're over a few years as it will prove how long you've been together.
My brother was in Aus when he applied for his visa (sorry don't know which it was), and his girlfriend was an aussie citizen. He had me send over bill that were in joint names, travel documents indicating they'd travelled together and also letters his girlfriend had sent.
I think your right to get people to put address and number on stuff, then they can do checks if they need to
The problem with the pics is that most of them have no dates on - even if they did it wouldn't really be proof of anything. I was hoping that half a dozen pics of us together in various climates and clothing and with different hairstyles would at least show that we've been together for quite a while!
I think I'll just put it all in, anything that I can think of, and then they can always chuck it away if they don't need it. I'd rather have that happen than have them send the whole thing back to us saying it isn't enough.
We had the same problem, not being married.
So my advice would be as we done and send photo's with card dates that corresponding dates if poss .we sent loads of stuff a bit oover kill is better than carefull .We sent photo's that started from the begining of our relationship up to present day ,and there was a lot sixteen years worth.
If you do send copies of anything they must be certified or the origanal must be sent. As for friend and family doing statments they must be on a delaration form.ican send you a copy of one if you need it. As I said over kill is best old invertation too birthdays, weddingsconcerts anything that you both went too .
All the best .
