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I couldn't disagree more. I spent two years in London - quit my job, left my family and moved over, it was the best decision of my life. I made some fantastic friends, and made the most of what London had to offer every day. I'm now living in York and whilst I love it for different reasons London will always have a piece of my heart. If your young id always suggest spending atleast a bit of time living in London!

I had the same issue when I applied in Feb. A few days later the upload buttons came back, but it also allowed me to attatch documents up the top right hand corner of the page - I can't remember what the exact button said but it was something like "attatch documents". It's in addition to the individual upload buttons against the document list for sponsor and visa applicant at the bottom. People have attached hundreds of documents so just give it some time and try again if you can't see the other button I'm referring to.

I don't know much about this visa so hopefully someone more helpful will come along. But I believe this visa has a 56 year processing time at the moment...she might be better qualifying for a skilled visa in her own right? all the best!

What you earn has nothing to do with it unfortunately. It will all come down to what your wife earns and that will need to be GBP18,600 - once the baby is born the amount you need to earn increases to £20 something thousand pounds. if your wife doesn't or can't earn that much you can look at savings, I believe the amount you need is £62,500 (if your relying purely on savings), this can be in your name, her name or joint names and I think it can over a few accounts I believe but has to have been in the account for 6 plus months. ive been looking into this for my partner and I but he doesn't earn enough as a law graduate so were stuck at the moment

All your evidence has to pre date your application date so if you have already applied it won't help. do you have any proof of joint finances? Joint bank account? Any joint memberships at all? Have a think and search the forum for posts like I suggested. You might find that you have more evidence than you realise.

Police checks and medicals are valid for 12 months. Processing time onshore is longer than this, so you can do the medical and police check now but you will more than likely have to have another set of them done because they will expire before the grant of your visa. They won't grant you a BVB outside a few weeks of your departure, there is no way around this unfortunately - the reason they do it is in case your visa is granted beforehand. But it's not an issue, you pay and apply and it will be granted. They have relaxed on the reasons needed to apply for a BVB because of lengthy processing times and if your reason is for your wedding you won't have an issues what so ever getting one. My partner applied for one 10 days before he was due to go overseas, we got a call the following day to say they were going to grant the partner visa so we didn't have to get the BVB in the end. But we had asked for 6 months and our only reason was to visit family for christmas and a holiday to Iceland. Nature of household and nature of commitment - there are LOADS of threads on this site with examples of what people have submitted (just use the search bar). Think wills, superannuation beneficiary, your name on car insurance, joint health insurance or ambulance cover (cheap as chips) etc etc...I don't see why you can't be on bills being on a student visa? We had no issues and my partner was on a 1 year WHV. Photos hold little weight, so does proof of travel together. You need to show you share a household together as though you were married.

Is there not a usually resident requirement for a PR to sponsor someone on a partner visa?

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This is an old post guys, the poster advised they were applying in august, that's been and gone. merrwatson to answer your questions. I sighed up with a cinema called "Reading" cinemas, this was over a year ago so memberships may have changed. But there are lots of other joint memberships you can get e.g cheap ambulance cover. my superannuation had a statement that showed my partner listed as the beneficiary - I could also log in online and see he was listed there. But I just supplied my quarterly statement that had him down. Re fly buys again I logged in online and it showed my partner and I as cardholders. I just did screenshots basically.

I had my career in Australia, quit my job, moved out of my house and to London to be with my partner in order to build up the nesessary evidence. Unfortunately it's not immigrations job to provide visas that enable us to develop relationships (don't mean for that to sound harsh!). From what I can see you have a few options: 1. PMV - currently taking 10-14 months from London. Has to be applied for offshore and your partner would have to be offshore at time of grant. This visa is perfectly suited for couples in your situation if your happy to marry. If your partner doesn't mind not working - he could look to apply for a tourist visa whilst the PMV is being process so that the two of you can stay together, he could then make a quick trip to Bali or NZ to activate the visa once ready. 2. Your partner qualifies for a skilled work visa in his own right 3. Bloody expensive student visa 4. Move to the UK

Im not saying it's isolated, I'm simply saying it's really not as easy as jumping on a plane. I can get from melbourne to sydney for $39, I'd be paying close to $100 on top of that to get from melbourne to Perth, if you have a family of four that's $400 extra each way that you need to pull out of your pocket. For some people this has a big impact.

The East Coast locations are not really a long way from each other. Flights from Perth to anywhere on the East Coast are very expensive - it's not like the UK where you pay next to nothing for a flight. It's a lot cheaper - generally by hundreds of dollars if you have a family - for you to go from Melbourne (or another east coast city) to anywhere on the east cost then it would be for you to go from Perth. So I probably wouldn't think of it as just a matter of jumping on a plane.

Thanks No kids, never married, we lived with my parents for almost the entire duration, the other half was in a house share, no large joint assets, no joint bank account - we had been together in a defacto relationship for 18months. we had applied for a BVB and they contacted us to grant the partner visa instead - we were very lucky, certainly not the norm, we had expected not to hear a single thing until 18months after submitting.

Lodged ours onshore in feb 2014, had it granted in June 2014 so just under 4 months! Didn't use an agent.

It's not quicker. Onshore waitin time is 12-18 months, London offshore applications are currently 10-14 months. If you do come over on a tourist visa and apply onshore you will get work rights but don't expect to find it easy to get a job - a lot of employers are hesitant to hire people on BVA's. If your in no rush, apply offshore and come over once granted

Just wanted to mention that if your considering studying look into the costs. You will be classed an international student and they get charged significantly more than domestic students (in particular if your looking at university)

If you don't have a shred of joint financial evidence your visa will be refused. You need to show you have joint finances. When I was in London I worked and my partner didn't for a period of 6 months - but he still paid for things here and there eg dinner some nights, movies, take away etc. We had evidence of this. Perhaps this is why you were reccomended the PMV because it requires far less evidence.

You have misread that. You apply for the temporary visa, that takes 12-15 months (or whatever the processing time is in London at the moment), once it's granded you travel to australia, then after two years (from application date) you apply for your permanent visa. The temporary visa doesn't allow you to travel to australia to wait out the time. You can apply and then get a tourist visa though, but you would have to be offshore when the temporary partner visa is granted.

If you have all of the information - joint bills, tenancy agreements, intertwined finances I don't see why you would go for the PMV. If you applied for the PMV you would have that granted, come to Australia, have 9 months to get married and then have to apply for the partner visa anyway (granted by that stage it's less evidence required) - but if it were me I'd definitely be applying for the defacto visa, you can get married in your own time an it's one less step. So I'd say go the partner visa based on your defacto relationship.

you simply tick a box online to say you agree to take financial responsibility of your partner. I had my partner visa granted in June this year, I am the sponsor and supplied not a single bit of evidence to show I had a job (even though I was employed full time).

Unlike the UK there is no financial requirement for the sponsor to be earning a certain amount of money - or have a certain amount in the bank. I'd suggest you read the partner visa booklet which will give you a clear idea of what's needed for the visa. If you have been living together akin to marriage for 12 months I'd suggest the partner visa over the PMV

Its not getting strict with immigration. It's a knee jerk reaction to people demanding something be done about immigration. All its doing is stopping genuine families from being together. I earn more money than my partner at the moment as he's just graduated from university - he won't be earning over £18,600 for another few years. Yet even if I get a job offer my wage counts for nothing (my job title isn't on the skilled list so can't get a working visa). i understand the need to control immigration but this certainly isn't the way to do it

Apart from it being in breach if your visa conditions - you will be hard pressed to find a single employer that would give you a job when you have no right to work.....getting a skilled work visa isn't a quick process so I wouldn't think they would wait around for you to apply and be granted one - even if they entertained te idea of employing you.

Tell me about it, my partner and I are going through this at the moment. He couldn't get work in Australia so went back to the UK in June, got work within a week. We have been told we can spend up to 6 months apart under certain circumstances. Our agent has said my parter having to go back to get work is one of them. The actual wording of the rules is that you have to have been living together for the preceding two years and can't spend any more than 6 months apart in those two years. I'm on my phone now but that info is in the booklet. getting an Australian partner visa was a dream in comparison to this!

You can most certainly get a spouse visa in the UK without sitting an English language test, even if you are from a country outside Europe. I don't need one coming from Australia. They ask for it for all countries who don't prodominately speak English.