CollegeGirl

If you had to be apart for a period of time AFTER you started living together, then, yes, this would be evidence you stayed in contact. Not GREAT evidence, but evidence. And yes, once you take a screenshot, you can paste it into MSPaint or some other program, save it as a JPG file and upload it. But if you hadn't started living together yet, as snifter and pumpkin have said, this is going to be useless as you in all likelihood hadn't commenced the de facto part of your relationship yet.

You are reading too much into this. Those blue question marks are always there for everyone unless there's a glitch in your browser - it could have been it wasn't properly loading images temporarily for some reason. Your CO doesn't have anything to do with them, I promise. They don't get that specific with you - if they need something else from you or what you uploaded doesn't suffice, they'll email you, not leave you some ambiguous impossible-to-interpret symbol about it. For what it's worth, my account said "no correspondence" as well, even though I'd previously received an acknowledgment. It wasn't until my visa was granted that anything showed up in the correspondence section.

If there's one missing, it just means they think it's too obvious to need explaining or they simply haven't created a tooltip for that category yet.

You are really overthinking this. Question marks like that are in many online applications - they're called tooltips, and just a place to get generic information on what they're looking for there. Those neither appear nor disappear nor indicate anything about what you've attached or not attached.

If you marry before the grant of your PMV, you have to notify your CO, and they will change the PMV application to the 309. BUT you may also be required to provide additional evidence since the 309 requires MORE evidence than the PMV. If you're planning on doing this, you'll need financial evidence as well as evidence of shared household. I wouldn't recommend it since you're so close. Just my two cents.

You actually don't have to be onshore for a PR grant anyway, actually. You can be anywhere in the world. It's only onshore TEMPORARY visas where you have to worry about that.

Yes, both temporary and permanent visas are included in the cost you pay upfront when you lodge the temporary.

You can ONLY use those listed as "Panel Doctors" on the Immi website.

I used compress.smallpdf.com to compress my PDFs to manageable sizes for my application. It was free.

Really happy to hear that. London is staying at the top of my favorite embassy list - they seem much more inclined to be fair and open about things than many other embassies.

Really, really happy to hear this! That's great.

Just be aware that you'll then be assessed on the merits of the 309 and may need more evidence than you'd have for the 300 (combined finances and households, etc).

I should say I really, really hope that they ARE indeed NOT going to impose this new timeframe on current applicants. I just think there's no way to be 100% sure of it, and I'll continue to think that until we see it in writing somewhere or hear from a reliable registered migration agent about it.

At every other embassy in the world, PMV applicants have to schedule their weddings AFTER their PMV grants and plan it quickly after grant because they can't be sure when their visa will be granted. When I applied for my PMV through Washington, D.C., the quoted timeframe was 5-6 months. It took 8 months, and I was one of the lucky ones - others who applied around the same time I did waited 10-11 months. Luckily I knew enough to know you couldn't 100% rely on timeframes quoted, and just to be on the safe side I scheduled it far enough out that I didn't have to reschedule it. London for the last couple of years has been the best embassy I've seen and given their applicants the most realistic timeframe and actually stuck to it. But London applicants have been lucky. Many who don't know not to trust timeframes at other embassies have had to reschedule weddings when they scheduled it too early and their grant didn't come in time. Immi (at least at other embassies) absolutely does NOT take your wedding date into account when granting your visa.

Sophia, is your boyfriend an Australian citizen or PR? If he is, do you not qualify for any type of partner visa?

By the way, when she calls is she getting hold music, etc.? She just might not be waiting long enough. It's not unusual to have to wait an hour or longer before they get to your call. Try calling when they first open at 8:30. I've heard it's easier to get through then.

Hi Andrew - is she on an 820 or a 309, and it's now time for the permanent part of her visa (801 or 100, respectively)? If so, she can just apply online herself. No need to ring immigration first. It doesn't matter that she's past her eligibility date. They won't look at her application BEFORE the date she's eligible, but will anytime after. I'd do it ASAP as you don't want them to get around to cancelling the 309 or 820, but don't get too stressed - it seems to often take them months or even years to get around to canceling the original visa if the person doesn't apply for PR.

Have you ever lived in a country where they DON'T speak English? My guess is you haven't. I studied Spanish all through school and uni, and still, when I did a semester abroad in Spain in college, it took me months to get to where I would have felt comfortable enough to sit any sort of Spanish language competency test for immigration purposes, and I STILL would have been scared out of my mind doing it. Other languages come naturally to some people - they never did for me. Of course it's necessary to learn the language to integrate into any given culture - but that can take a LOT of time, and to force people to put their lives and their careers on hold until their partners can master English (which is actually a pretty difficult language to master) would seem very unfair to me.

Yep, Ozmaniac is spot-on. I came here to post the same exact link.

Yep, sponsors do have to promise to help their partners learn English if they don't already know it once they get here, and I believe those who come over on a partner visa are eligible for English classes as well. Not positive as I never paid much attention to that since I'm a native speaker myself. But I am positive there's no requirement to speak English to get a partner visa.

Partner visas do not have any sort of English language test.

Like MaggieMay and I have both said - you are eligible for the 100 two years after you APPLY for the 309. It doesn't matter how long they take to process your 309 - two years after you APPLY for it is when you are eligible to be reassessed for the 100 (PR). Getting your 309 faster in no way changes when you are eligible for your 100 visa. Some people are unlucky and their 309s take much longer to be processed - if it took 18 months for someone's 309 to be processed, they would be eligible for the 100 just six months after the 309 was granted (18 months + six months = two years). Then they would apply, and several months after that is when the 100 would be granted. You will be eligible to do your reassessment for your PR on 3/2/2016. If processing times are still what they are currently, you'll probably receive your PR between 3/5/2016 and 3/8/2016. The processing times you provided a link to above are for people who apply DIRECTLY to an 801 (and who don't have to do the two-year 820 visa first). AND those linked processing times are years out of date at this point and very misleading, anyway, even if they did apply to you (which they don't).

Laith, you are not eligible to *apply* for the PR 100 visa until two years after you applied for the 309, so for you that will be 3/2/2016. Once you apply for it, it takes a few months to be granted.

I've heard you can even apply online BEFORE you're eligible, though they of course won't process it until after your two-year eligibility date. I believe there's a calculator they make you use to determine whether you're eligible to apply, and if you put an earlier date in it it will let you apply earlier (though, again, they won't process it early or anything). Not sure how kosher it is to do that, so I'm not recommending it, just saying it's apparently possible.

You're eligible to apply for PR two years after you applied for your temp partner visa, so yes, you'll be eligible in September. They generally contact you a month or two before, but if they don't, it could mean they don't have your current contact info. You can just apply online yourself anyway. No need to wait for them. I'd start getting your documents together that you'll need, and then you can apply online the day you're eligible.