ceejay007

Hi all! I'm hoping some of you here might be able to help out with your invaluable advice Here's the situation - I'm an Aussie, and my lovely lady is a Brit. We met each other in India about 15 months ago, and I moved to the UK at the start of July last year to be with her, and we've been living together since then. That gives us about 9 months under the belt, according to the Oz de facto requirement. Our future plans are as follows - by the end of May, we're going to be travelling around Europe in a camper for 4 or 5 months. From there, we're planning on going to live in Spain for a few months and teaching English or pulling pints. By the end of this year or the start of next, we would like to move to Oz. This is where things get a bit confusing for us. As we will be applying for the partner visa in the near future, does anyone know how we should go about it, considering that by the time our 12 months of living together elapses, we will be out of the UK and travelling around Europe? We would also prefer not to go back to live there, however, we expect to make the odd trip back if required to get the visa sorted. Would we be better off applying in another country, such as Spain, or would it be best to apply via the UK as that is where our history is? Also, would the fact that we're away travelling together have any effect on the outcome of he visa? Thanks in advance for your help!