spouse visa... how long?

[peppa]

hi everyone
hoping someone can help I am applying for a spouse visa this september (waiting till then as thats when we get married... about time 4 children later!!!) was wondering does anybody know how long the visa will take hoping to go to oz around next march!
also are there any forms we could be getting filled in in the mean time? what about police checks should I get them done now?

thanks sooo much for any advice

peppa and co. x

[Abi&Dan]

Spouse Visa: Offshore Temporary and Permanent (Subclasses 309 and 100)

You can apply in advance of being married as long as you will be married before the visa is granted (and if you have 4 kids you don't even have to get married - you could go de facto quite easily with that amount of evidence of long term committment! lol)

However, don't know timescales and think they're pretty fast so you may want to wait till the day after the wedding!! Specially as, same as the 136 you have to enter before either meds or police checks expire. If you apply in Sept and want to be there March reckon that's plenty of time for a spouse's.

Good luck!!

[peppa]

thank you so much for advice..

peppa and co.x

[Taz01]

Hi Peppa,
If you start getting all your paperwork together, stat decs and statements done now, get your police check and meds booked, then apply you shouldn't have long to wait at all. One of the girls on here had her defacto visa approved in 8 days! My partner had his approved in 6 weeks, but 40 days of that time was waiting for a new police check to come back. Minus that time it would have been about 8 days as well!

The booklet on the Department of Immigration and Citizenship website on partner migration has a checklist of all the documents you need to provide and as long as you get everything together you should have no problem at all.

Good luck!

Eva
:)

[peppa]

eva
thank you sooo much great advice.

peppa and co. x

[asylon]

Hi Peppa,
My spouse visa came in just under 6 weeks. I sent my police check with the application, that took about 4 weeks to come. I got permanent residency straight off as we had been together (not married) more than 5 years and have 2 kids.
Proof of relationship consisted of one piece of evidence for each of us from each year we had been together, showing that we had been living at the same address, bills, bank statements etc.
You need to submit your children's ozzy citizenship documents too.
It was all very easy.
Good luck
Alyson x (out of here in 9 weeks !)

[peppa]

thanks Alyson

6 weeks! thats great I wont panic too much then.

where in oz are you off to?

peppa and co. x

[asylon]

Cairns, just to be different !!!
Call me a nutter if you like
A x

[peppa]

each to their own.. as my nan used to say

good luck.x

[peppa]

hi asylon

did your children have to have medicals even tho they are oz cits? not sure if i should book them an appointment aswell as myself

many thanks

peppa.x