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Thanks so much for all your helpful advice, hopefully everything goes smoothly and we can get on with living our lives together!

Thanks so much for you reply, great news about the work restrictions being lifted. That makes the whole process a lot easier. we had our relationship registered at the end of February in WA also have other supporting documents to back up our application so hopefully that will all be fine. Do you think having the relationship registered in WA and applying for the visa in VIC will be a problem? (i am from WA but have moved to VIC to study) Would you think having an ongoing ticket is necessary for when my partner comes back to australia? For the 6 months before my partner returned to the UK we were living with my family in WA, do you think DIAC would accept a letter from my parents as though they are landlords? we were paying some rent, don't know if a retrospective invoice would just look silly... we were getting our joint bank account statements sent there but no other proof we were living there, except photos, and family stat decs. thanks so much for you help, what a great resource this forum is!

Hi all, i'm Australian and currently studying at uni in victoira. my partner has returned back to the UK to visit friends and family as his working holiday visa expired at the beginning of march. we were planning to apply for onshore processing but i am a little bit nervous about him entering on a ETA visa and being rejected. I heard that other people have applied this way, any problems? Do they question the way you entered when you apply for the 820? because i'm in the middle of a degree i can't really leave the country and the prospect of spending 9 months apart waiting for off-shore processing is not a nice. Also has anyone waiting for the approval of the 820 visa applied for the work conditions of their bridging visa to be lifted? seems a bit difficult... Any help of advice would be much appreciated!