cymru1

Hello! This is my first post on this forum but it has been a great help in the past, thankyou all. My partner and I have an 820 temporary partner visa, granted in April last year. My partner is an Australian Resident and sponsored me. Sadly one of my parents was taken critically ill so I flew back to the UK to be with my family through the end of life process and he died towards the end of last year. In order to provide emotional and financial support I remained in the UK until this month and have now returned to Oz. I am now really worried that this will count against us when our case is examined to upgrade my visa to a permanent residency. In the heat of everything happening back in the UK I didn't ever contact Immgration to inform them I was back in the UK. I was wondering what everyone's thoughts were on the situation? Also, I can't find any information on the checklist that we must be complete when approaching the date for our decision. Can anyone help? Thankyou so much all in advance.