RockDr

What happened to the letter you got when your partner was added as a secondary card holder?

Yes you get a visa each, but the visas are still both tied to the main applicant's job. If the main applicant has to leave the country, so does the secondary applicant. So while the partners get "better" work rights, some have found that employers can be reluctant to hire them.

I won't comment on the visa situation since others have given you plenty of good advice on this. What I can comment on is the long distance relationship. Yes, it's tough. Probably on the toughest things you'll ever do in your life. If your relationship survives long distance, it can probably survive anything. Long Distance really teaches you to communicate, which will help you no end in the long run. Things that can really help: Skype. make sure you both have skype or some other data based calling app on your phones, and enough data allowance to talk to each other regularly. A long term plan. figure out how and when you'll live together again, so however painfult he distance gets, there is an end in sight. A shorter term plan. As soon as you leave, put a plan in place so you know when you'll next see each other (It's cheaper to buy flights from the UK than vice versa so if you're pushed for money, probably best if you do the visiting). The hardest times I found were when we hadn't yet booked the next flight, so didn't have a specific date to look forward to. Have a life. Don't spend your entire time on Skype, you still both need to get out and do all the things you enjoy doing.

I would recommend you get hold of the Australian school's curriculum now, so that you can work with his UK school in identifying gaps that need filling. If you can work on these gaps before he gets to Australia, he'll have a better chance of doing well and staying with the same yeargroup into year 9 the following year. I wouldn't worry academically about him repeating a year, it'll just be tough for him to make friends July-Dec and then have to start again with a new yeargroup.

Once you apply.

Indeed, unless the child spends three consecutive years in the UK before his children are born, his children will not be entitled to UK citizenship of any form (though might be able to get an ancestry visa like your partner did)

What dates were you looking at? I've just booked return flights to the UK from Adelaide in May for $1650pp return. I also looked up the prices from Brisbane and they weren't that much more, something like $1800. If you're having issues with expedia hotel prices, have you considered contacting the hotels directly? or looking for their own websites. You can usually get as good a price that way.

Depends where you're flying from. not that many Australian cities have cheap flights to Asia. You'd also be risking missed connections etc.

OK, so your partner is NOT a citizen by descent. She is a Naturalised citizen and can pass on her citizenship to the child with no issues, no registration etc. The child IS AUTOMATICALLY a citizen by descent, so all you need to do is get the Australian birth cert, and then apply for the passport. Forms are here, http://ukinnewzealand.fco.gov.uk/en/help-for-british-nationals/passports/how-to-apply/australia you make an appointment with your post office to get it all sent off. You'll need form C2, all you'll need from the mother are her passport details and the details of her citizenship certificate. All pretty straight forward.

Incidentally, dear god that link was hard to find! I'd have given up if I wasn't sure it existed because I'd seen it previously. Took a good quarter of a hour to locate, so much for easily accessible information!

If you were living as a couple under your parent's roof for a while, then get them to write a staturory declaration about this.

You still haven't clarified your partner's status. You say she got a passport by ancestry and then got naturalised? Then you say something about her being a citizen by descent. These are different situations. If your partners parents were full british citizens, and she was born outside the UK then she is a citizen by descent. The ancestry route isn't citizenship, you get a visa that allows you to live in the UK and can eventually apply for citizenship once you qualify. Also, how old is your partner, since there were changes to the laws in 1983, the above applies to people born after this date. If your partner is a citizen by descent rather than by naturalisation, this is the relevant info - so no it's not as straightforward as just filling out the passport application... http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/britishcitizenship/eligibility/children/britishcitizen/bornabroad/ Sounds like you need to register the child under section 3(2). This is probably not what the BHC was talking about, as it is not registering the birth, but registering the child as a British Citizen. I would go back and clarify the situation with them.

I would list your Italian passport first, as that's the one you want the visa associated with. List your Brazilian passport second, as they'll need to know it exists, but the visa won't be tied to that passport.

Have your joint bank account statements been sent to the address you both live at? That is proof enough that you've been at the same address, you don't need to use bills. Witnessed statements from friends and family will help, also get your wills drawn up listing each other as beneficiaries. Do you have the receipts for the travel as well as ticket stubs? as that would show you'd paid together for that travel.

Yes, I was backing you up... but I've found it's often useful to say the same thing in different words in the hope that at least one version will be understandable to the OP. I've noticed on here that it sometimes takes several attempts at phrasing things differently to get through to some people, so I tend to pre-empt these days...

This is correct. Also a citizen by descent can pass on citizenship if they've lived in the UK for three years prior to the birth of the child (this makes them effectively naturalised), though how you'd show this in a passport application I have no idea.

I'm not sure what you mean by registering the birth? If the child was born in Australia then they need an Australian birth certificate. Once you have the birth certificate, you can apply for their UK passport (no registration process necessary). If your partner has been naturalised as a UK citizen prior to the child's birth then the child is eligible for British citizenship by descent. You will need to provide the naturalisation documentation when you apply for the passport. UK passport applications in Australia are dealt with through the post office. The application is sent to Wellington for processing and then the passport gets couriered out from the UK. Takes up to 6weeks.

Everyone who is working in Australia has to file a tax return. I wouldn't try a fly under the radar on this one. Your best chance of getting this sorted and keeping your visa is to do everything by the book. You will need to use a tax accountant to lodge your tax return, since you've missed the deadline for self-lodging. I recommend you speak to Alan Collett from Go Maltilda who posts on this site, as he deals with both immigration and tax issues. hope you manage to resolve these issues, good luck!

We just caught the end of the earlybird sales for our trip to the UK in May. I would sign up to the emails formt he airlines you'd be willing to travel with, and keep an eye out for sales. If you've not had a good price between now and late January, then just book, as last minute flights tend to be expensive.

talk to a registered migration agent asap.

ignoring the X-ray issue, (which is probably going to be the main issue). If she were to apply onshore for a partner visa, she would get interim medicare (blue card) which entitles her to the same medicare cover as permanent residents/citizens, but the card needs renewing every year.

She is technically making off with an iphone that she hasn't yet paid for.

From what my husband tells me it's the build-up that's the worst time of year (He lived there for four years in his teens). Once the wet has started it's far more bearable. He likes to joke that in Darwin you can tell the weather by looking at the calendar, and during the wet, by looking at your watch. Apparently the rain always coincides with the end of the schoolday such that all the kids get drenched on the way home.

$1300 is more than the remaining value on the contract. I would be seriously querying this. Obviously she doesn't own the iphone outright until the end of the contract, so she at least will need to pay the remaining value of the phone (whatever 80% of a 4s is worth these days). One option might be to return the handset. I would get in touch with the telecoms ombudsman to clarify rights etc. http://www.tio.com.au/

Exactly. DIAC are not registered migration agents, and specifically say that they are not there to give out migration advice.