Brissiestu

Hi, I'm asking for advice on the UK police search necessary for a partner visa. We have applied for a prospective spouse visa and there is no real problem. However although my partner is Dutch, and her dependent student daughter is also Dutch, her daughter is actually studying in Glasgow. Her daughter provided police searches from Holland and also from the Scottish Police Authority, as our reading of the websites was that if resident in Scotland, the police search had to be issued by the Scottish police authority (but the search does cover the UK) rather than ACPO police certificate. However our case officer has come back (rather belatedly) and said that she must have an ACPO certificate rather than a Scottish police authority certificate. One of the problems is that they are Dutch citizens and the application had to be lodged in Berlin, Germany, and they may not understand the police setup in UK. So can anyone enlighten me as to whether the Scottish police certificate is indeed the correct one for anyone who has been resident in Scotland and not any other part of the UK? Perhaps someone who has recently successfully migrated from Scotland might know? Thanks in advance Brissiestu

Hi All, I have a query that I hope someone can help me with. My fiance is arriving soon from Holland under the PMV subclass 300 visa. She has a dependent 16 year old daughter. We plan to get married ASAP after my fiance gets to Australia and immediately apply for the subclass 820/801 temporary/permanant residence visa (two years temporary then hopefully permanent residency. However her daughter would like to delay entry into Australia until later in the year (July/August), to finish her school term in Holland. This will still be before the expiry of the medical/police report so that is OK. However by this time will will be married and will have applied for the 820/801 visa. So my query is this. My fiance's daughter will not have entered Australia to validate her PMV subclass 300 visa before we get married and apply for the 820/801, on which she will also be listed as a dependent. She will also not be in Australia when the 820/801 visa application is lodged (although, of course, her mother will be). Will it matter to her status as a dependent on the 820/801 application if she has not been validated as a dependent on the the subclass 300 visa application? Also will it matter if her mother is onshore and she is offshore when we apply for the 820/801 visa? Thanks for any advice, Brissiestu

Thanks RockDr. Anyone else have experience of dependents graduating before permanant residency granted?

I have a question regarding our visa application and dependent status. I live in Brisbane and my fance lives in Holland. She has applied for a subclass 300 prospective spouse visa and we hope that it will be granted some time in November. We plan to get married in January 2013. My question is this: My fiance has a 19 year old daughter who is a university student, and she has listed her as a dependent (this has been queried by immigration, who do not seem to understand that the vast majority of students in both the UK and Holland live away from home, but are still dependent financially on their parents, but we have argued the case). Let's assume that her daughter is accepted as a dependent gets a visa linked to her mother's. When we get married in January, my fiance will apply for a partner (temporary) visa, then in January 2015 will apply for a partner (permanent residency) visa. During the two year temporary residency visa period her daughter will graduate and would be looking for a job, thus will technically no longer be a dependent as she is over 18 and not a student. Will she then be taken off her mother's visa application? Or is it just her status at the time of the original subclass 300 application (or the temporary partner visa) that counts? I suspect there must be other people out there who have applied for a partner visa with a student dependent who graduates before the two year temporary residency visa is up. Any advice on this will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks JoandJohn. Good point. Yes we have the fathers' consent in hand.

Thanks GeorgeD for all your helpful comments. We understood that a spouse visa had more restrictions, and that even if we were married we would have to show that we had lived together for for a substantial period of time as husband and wife before a visa could be granted (pretty much impossible if we live in different continents), which we would not need to do with the prospective marriage visa. Otherwise we would just go ahead and get married as that is what are planning to do anyway.... Anyone else know the pros and cons of spouse vs PMV? Thanks

Thanks to all who have replied. I am actually planning 3 weeks on Netherlands at easter and my partner is planning 4 weeks on Oz in July so that should boost our physical contact time.

Thanks Goldcoast. Can anyone else help?

Hello, I hope you can help us. I am an Aussie citizen (however originally from UK) and I met my partner while in Europe last November. My partner is Dutch and we intend to apply for the subclass 300 fiance visa (prospective marriage visa). I live in Brisbane and she lives in the Netherlands. However I have a few questions which I hope others who have been through a similar experience can help us with. 1. We met for the first time in November 2011, and have only been together physically 5 days (in November). However We are totally committed to each other and are no spring chickens (I am 57, she is 50) so we both know what we want in a life partner, and marriage is a clear best option. Since we met we have been in multiple daily contact via email, Skype, phone. However will the short period of time we have physically been together count against us? 2. When would be the earliest time at which we could reasonably apply for the fiance visa? Would 3 months from date of first meeting be sufficient to convince the authorities that it is a committed relationship? 3. My partner has two daughters from a previous marriage, one 16 and one 18. The 16 year old lives with her and is still at school, but the 18 year old lives away from home at University in Scotland. However as a student she is still financially dependent on her mother. Would both the girls be able to come in under their mother's prospective partner visa? 4. Because of the added complexity of dependents, would it be best to use a migration agent? 5. Finally, does anyone know the approximate time scales? Ideally my partner and daughters would like to be in Australia by January 2013, in time for the start of the school year. Is this feasible? Thanks in advance for any advice and info.