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We sent:- our personal statements 5 stat decs from Aussie friends/family joint wedding invitations joint bank statements (appreciate you don't have these but if you have anything like transfers of money between accounts to share bills etc that would be handy) marriage cert Photos (family events, social occasions, wedding, honeymoon) - shows you are accepted as a couple, have social relationships etc Joint wedding invitations Mail addressed to both of us at same address (though if you don't have that, mail addressed individually to each of you at the same address proves the same thing) You can also do - car insurance, life insurance, wills, a stat dec from your parents regarding living arrangements. As others have said, you will get the visa if you are married with a child, but you do need to jump through the hoops of doing what you can to prove it and tell your story - rather than just sending a marriage certificate and birth certificate! Good luck!

Where do they live at the moment? They need either visa 101 (if they are applying offshore) or 802 (onshore from Australia). If they are onshore, what visa is the baby on at the moment?

I see no reason why they wouldn't accept a certified copy from 1993, but you would need to explain that you needed it back otherwise you may or may not see it again! We had some of our documents returned but not the certified copy documents etc. If they will not accept the certified copy due to its age, then you would really have no option but to make a certified copy of the certified copy, and tell them that is all you have. There is nothing else you can do, so they would have to accept it.

The other thing to consider is that it is cheaper (and a bit quicker) to renew a passport in the UK rather than from Oz. Once you are here, to renew a British passport you need to make an appointment at a post office which offers the British passport service, go through all your docs with them, they then send it off to New Zealand and the Embassy there processes it and sends it back to you. It would be more straightforward and cheaper to renew before you fly. The UK gives "credit" for up to an extra 9 months on a renewed passport, so you're not losing out on any of the time on the existing passport as your daughter is already within that time period. You have nothing to lose and all you have to do visa wise is email DIAC and let them know the new passport number, it isn't a big deal and they'll just update it on their systems.

Not sure I understand the question - if the copy is already certified, why does it need to be certified again? Do you mean because it's the only copy in existence you don't want to give it to DIAC?

If you don't plan to go back until after your first WHV expires, then you need to apply for your second visa from offshore, and remain offshore until it's granted. Don't know about timescales - first WHVs are very quick but seconds may be slower as they may check your evidence of employment. Don't cancel your WHV - you can't anyway, it's already been used, but it is the fact you've had a first visa that entitles you to a second so please don't mess around with your original visa. Good luck!

Agreed - it would not probably have been an issue if you had declared on your application, they would not have generally refused a visa unless you had served a custodial sentence of 12 months or more. What you have done is applied for a visa, been asked to declare criminal convictions and have declared that you have none, when in fact you have a few. So it is now much more serious. They don't care about minor convictions, but they do care if you try and hide it. You need to speak to an agent asap. I take it you didn't declare any convictions on your WHV application either? You might have an issue there also. You need to come clean about this, with the help of an agent, asap.

If the baby is born before you apply, you can include them on your application. If you have a baby during the application process, you can still add them. Once the visa is granted (doesn't matter if it has been validated or if you have moved yet) then no-one can be added and you would need to apply for a child visa for the baby. The only exception as someone else has said, is if you move and then have the baby here, in which case if you had PR the baby would have Australian citizenship and therefore obviously wouldn't need a visa. Good luck!

All of this will help, everyone's case is different. My main concern would be whether someone on a pension is able to sponsor, and that is something that I would recommend you speak to an agent about. How can you be entitled to Centrelink as a tourist? That seems strange, but assuming that is ok, the fact that centrelink recognise you as a couple is further evidence for your visa. Still not sure why you think you would be refused, as I've said I think the only slight complication you have is the pension and that is the only thing I would be worried about. Given the sponsorship obligations to support you and to repay any Centrelink benefits etc, I am not sure that centrelink would consider that he could reasonably undertake that when his only income comes from them. Good luck!

Photos, your personal statements, your stat decs from people who can vouch for your relationship, can all tell the story of the time you've spent together. How about travel tickets or itineraries from your trips to see each other? I believe that for a PMV you are supposed to have completed a notice of intention to marry before you apply, but not sure if this is an absolute requirement or just something they prefer. I would read the partner migration booklet to confirm. Again, mentioning in your statements where you intend to live and providing evidence of that would be helpful in terms of establishing that you intend to set up home together. And for certification, we used a lawyer for some of ours and a GP for others. Good luck!

Hi, George has given you excellent advice so I won't repeat that but just wanted to clarify a small typo - the partner visa you're after if you have been de facto for at least 12 months or if you wait until you are married before applying is 309/100, not 309/300 or 301. As George quite rightly says elsewhere in his post, 300 is the Prospective Marriage Visa, which allows you to come to Oz and marry within 9 months. I would suggest your first step is to get in touch with the local Embassy/High Commission which would be processing your partner's application and enquire about current processing times, which should help you make a plan. Good luck! PS George - congrats on the 100 grant! I've been watching out for that

Yep, that's right, all good. She can apply for Aussie citizenship by descent (and then an Aussie passport) for her child. And for her partner, the partner visa. Good luck to her!

Just one quick question - is your daughter an Australian citizen by descent or by birth/naturalisation? If she is a citizen by descent, then she can't pass on that on to the child, so the child could be included as a dependent on the husband's visa application (which is a 309/100 partner visa by the way). If she is a citizen by birth or by naturalisation, then the child just needs citizenship by descent, rather than a visa.

Don't know the answer to the medical question I'm afraid, I would think it would be valid for a year as normal. On your other question about next steps, I'm afraid not, the temp visa lasts for 2 years from application, then she is eligible for PR (the 801 visa). Citizenship only comes into the mix once she has lived here for minimum 4 years.

Start by reading the partner migration booklet, available on the immi website. It gives examples of types of evidence and explains the process. If you don't have joint mail, how about mail addressed to you both individually at the same address? Your partner being on disability pension could be interesting, you will need to address in your personal statements how he will meet his sponsorship obligations. I can't see any reason why your case is complex enough to need an agent, but obviously that is your choice. Do you have a job? If not, how do you support yourselves now? Just thinking that your super or tax return could be useful. How about insurance, financial commitments, travel, social invitations, every little helps. Good luck!

Just do the best you can with countries and approximate dates, I did that and just put a note at the bottom that all dates for European travel were approximate due to an EU passport not having stamps. They are used to it.

Any time - you could have applied onshore, and stayed on without leaving. Good luck!

An AOS and being a sponsor are two different things. You are still your partners sponsor and still need to show how you will meet those obligations. An AOS was an additional formal requirement which some partner visa sponsors were asked for, if there was doubt about whether the sponsor could provide support and that is what has changed.

Wrong DBC, if you have your baby in Oz and you have your PR before the birth, your baby is a citizen by birth. If you have your baby outside Oz, they have no automatic right to residency and need their own PR visa, there is no in between option where they automatically get PR http://www.dfat.gov.au/publications/passports/Policy/Citizenship/BorninAustralia/CitizenshipbybirthinAustralia/index.htm

The difference with your situation DBC is that it sounds like you are planning to have the baby here, because of that your baby will have citizenship, not just residency. The OP has not moved to Oz yet, and it's whether she does move before or after the birth that makes the difference.

You need to advise DIAC and because your visa is already granted, your baby can't be added. You will need to either lodge a child visa for bubs once he is born or move prior to the birth in which he will be a citizen.

Because your baby has been born after visa grant, you need a separate child visa 101 to give him Australian PR. if bubs is born in Oz, to PR parents, he will have Aus citizenship. So very different outcomes. good luck!

Yes, bridging visa A automatically granted when one visa runs out, provided that an application for a new visa has been lodged

Your wife is not migrating as your dependent, she is your sponsor, you do not include her as a dependent on your application. If your stepkids are dependent on you, you could include them as dependents (although obaviously they also are not migrating)

Hi, Question 13 first asks if you are the only person with the right to determine where the child should live and with the right to remove them from the country. The answer to that question is no (because your baby has another parent, your wife). You then need to fill in your wife's details in the boxes below. It is only if you tick Yes to this question that you need to provide a court order. So this doesn't apply to you.