Beffers

11 hours ago, sianyo said:

Hi all,

When we submitted our application May 2018 (spousal visa 309/100) processing times were 12 to 14 months. The most current which was updated 18 July 2018 is 21 to 26 months- almost doubling our original processing time. I was asked to do medical exam straight away which would make it invalid in 9 months time. Should we be going off the original processing time or this new processing time?

Also, we were under impression that form 80 does not need to be submitted unless requested by case officer. Is this true? We haven't been assigned a case officer yet.

Thanks for any help!

Slightly confused. In terms of being asked to do the medical straight away, was the email from an actual Case Officer, or was it the standard medical letter that appears on the Immi account once you've applied? If the request came from an actual Case Officer then of course, yes follow their instructions. But then you say you've not been assigned a CO? 

We did the Form 80 as a standard part of our application in February of last year as the list of information requested included this, but maybe this element has changed since then. 

21 hours ago, moominfillyjonk said:

Thanks again Beffers. For the submission of evidence forms, does the website provide links and information where to find such things as stat dec forms and this form 80 for example? Because you can't click through to look at the next pages etc I'm finding it hard to understand what needs to be provided - just can't really believe there is no guidance forms for filling it out like they have for passport applications etc!

Thanks

I'm sure I just googled the Form 80 and found it. It's all on the Immi website but on obscure pages from what I remember. 

13 minutes ago, moominfillyjonk said:

Thanks Beffers. So in these boxes, would I just write a short paragraph outlining the answers to the questions? Or does it need to be more detailed, or refer to each piece of evidence that I will submit for each question? Thanks.

I provided a synopsis in each online question and alluded to further evidence in supporting documentation and that seemed to suffice. 

18 minutes ago, moominfillyjonk said:

Hello All.

I've started the very basics of the online application for a partner visa for myself (309-100), from the UK.

I can't find anything to really help with what documents and evidence we actually have to submit for the question section (see my attached pic)? How do you know what to submit, what form it should be, do you have to use special forms, who to ask etc etc? 

I'm considering now going through a migration agent as I can't see any guidance on what they want!

Thanks

 

Once you submit the application, you'll be given access to a screen where you can upload documents. There's a limit of 60 per person so be mindful and maybe upload composite PDFs. 

The evidence can include bank statements and utility bills showing shared finances; car, home and life insurance policies in both names; bills and official correspondence showing same address; mortgage/rent statements; marriage certificate if applicable; statements from you both explaining the nature of your relationship; wills; witness statements confirming your relationship as genuine; evidence of social aspects like photographs of you together, joint invites, joint club memberships etc.  And all the above needs to demonstrate the longevity of your relationship, so don't just include info for last year if you've been together more. There are Statutory Declaration forms you can use for witness statements, and also a Form 80 you'll need to complete. Your own statements can be typed or written on blank A4.  Think that covers it.

On 8 August 2018 at 17:10, Marisawright said:

It's quite possible he's gone from 457 to 457 to 457 without ever applying for PR

Wow. Didn't realise people could do that.

11 minutes ago, Richo28 said:

Hi All 

We are looking for a good immigration Agent to help us with hopefully moving to Australia .

many thanks in advance 

Rich 

 

There are a number of highly recommended and professional agents who regularly drop into the forum, and no doubt they will introduce themselves to you in due course. 

16 hours ago, amandahughes said:

Hi Guys,

Myself (UK citizen) and my partner who is an Australian citizen have been living together in the UK for the last 14 months after meeting in Australia 2 years ago and commencing a relationship. The living together part of our relationship started in the UK in July 2017 but it is in a shared house where my partner is not on the lease. I was wondering how to prove that we are living together as we are not named on any bills either. We have a joint bank account which has been active for a year and which my partner uses to pay his share of our rent.

In addition, I was wondering whether the new sponsor requirements would affect us considering my partner lives in the UK with me and would not be able to demonstrate having an Australian source of income until next year when his visa here expires and we move to Australia.

Thank you for any help with this in advance!

Hi

In your statements, you can explain the housing situation and also your witness statements can also explain the situation.  If you have a joint account, then annotate this with household bills and grocery shopping to prove that you share household expenses and allude to this in your statements as well. Presumably you have correspondence addressed to you at the same address, and this can be used to prove living together. I wasn't on my husbands mortgage, but could prove via correspondence and bank accounts that we shared an address and the bills!

I don't know when new sponsor rules come in, but my husband didn't have an Aussie source of income either as he'd been living in Europe for 26 years!! However, he had over 15 years industry experience and a trade, and his statement included how he had already begun to network with Aussie firms, and how he had approached his own firm for a transfer, which is what he did in the end (although he has since moved firms).

Good luck!

44 minutes ago, Martin Lombaard said:

Hi all, I’m a Boilermaker looking for a sponsorship. Been working in Western Australia for the last 12 years. Working as a shutdown, breakdown and maintenance boilermaker in a fix plant. Need help please. 

How have you been working in WA for 12 years and now require sponsorship? What visa did you come across on and how comes you've not got PR and/or Citizenship after 12 years?? Sorry but I'm slightly confused. Surely you should be a PR now and therefore not in need of sponsorship? More detail required. 

3 hours ago, Christopher Steptoe said:

Hi hope this can be answered

Im looking to start my Visa process very soon, my wife is Australian and the kids have dual..I'm type 1 diabetic controlled and slight hypertension controlled!! We are going to be mortgage free when we get a place , will the medical issue have a hindrance on me.

Many thanks

My medical took slightly longer as I'm hyperthyroid and associated hypertension, both controlled by meds. I took a letter from my GP and my latest endocrinology results so they had them on file, and I passed my medical no issue.  The panel doc said there shouldn't be any issues as I had provided more than enough info to ally any concerns or unknowns. 

Yes to the 40 and 47 as these are the main application forms. If you apply online, these are covered by the online application process.

If you want to apply for a tourist visa, you need to let Immigration know so that a) the tourist visa application doesn't cancel your partner application, and b) you'll need to go offshore when your partner visa is ready to be granted. 

But to enter on a tourist visa, you'll need a return flight, or an onward flight. It is a risk arriving on a one way ticket. 

1 hour ago, Corrinnamarie said:

Hi! 

I am looking for more information, I am married to an Australian citizen with dual citizenship to the U.K and we are planning on moving to Australia. We are due to have our baby in November and would like to get the visa application ball rolling sooner rather than later. Has anyone else done this? We have been married for 2 years had a house together for 4 years and we also have a dog to bring with us. Any Advice or tips we would be very grateful for.

 

Thanks,

 

Corrinna

The partner migration booklet will give you a lot of info.

check timescales and costs re pet migration as you can't leave that until last minute.

also medical for partner visa can sometimes include an X Ray which you can't do whilst you're pregnant. Maybe speak to a panel doctor so you can find out what's involved.

once baby is born, apply for Aussie citizenship straight away (and its passport) then you don't need to put him/her onto your visa application, as they wont be migrating with you - in the eyes of Immi - as they can travel to Australia as a citizen anyway.

good luck!

On 03/08/2018 at 16:28, Scousers1 said:

Hi, has anyone moved back to the UK when they have one child born in OZ, daughter is 20 and says she will not go back but i am getting more and more isolated in OZ and would love to go back. Hubby is easy either way. If you have gone back how did you manage oz born kids?

I get that she's your child but actually she's an adult who has told you she doesn't want to go back. So, there are two choices. You either stay in Oz to be near your daughter and work harder yourself at carving a better life for yourself (no need to be isolated these days, there are so many groups that one could join to make friends etc) or you return to the UK, leaving your adult daughter here to carve a life for herself. Presumably she still lives at home? Does she understand that if you go back, she will need to stand on her own two feet? Or is there a learning or physical disability that would prevent her independence? 

58 minutes ago, Kelly!!!!! said:

Hi all, 

So quick breakdown of our relationship: 

-I'm Aussie whilst my hubby is a brit and we're currently living in UK 

-been together 4.5 years; three years in September we would of been married, so we're waiting till after then to apply (fingers and toes crossed for 100 visa!). 

Quick question, when I've been doing my research a lot of blogs/migration agents have mentioned how a new process for sponsors was meant to come into play in 2018. 

I believe it was where the sponsor would need to get approved first before the partner visa could be submitted. This was something that was getting debated in the Australian senate I believe.  Does anyone know if this is actually the case, as i'm very confused. I know that I obviously have to submit a form on the online immi account but I don't know whether we need to wait till I get 'approved' as such first, I thought we did my sponsor info together with his app for visa at the same time. 

 

Any guidance would be SO appreciated. 

Thanks everyone! 

 

Kelly 

There has been a lot of talk about this but I've not seen any confirmation that its currently effective. Hopefully one of the forum's migration agents will be able to clarify.

25 minutes ago, Tulip1 said:

No, you tell them how it is. If it conflicts and they didn't inform immigration they were in a relationship which they have to then they have problems 

Good call.

We put our AirBandB address down for car and Medicare, and spoke to AirBandB landlord about this first to make sure he was okay. He was great, forwarded on our post and even provided an Australian rental reference for us. We were upfront tho and didn't just assume we could use his address. 

Your case officer will request your meds and police checks as part of the spouse visa application process. You won't know when this will be when you apply.

31 minutes ago, Katalinka said:

Hello,

Please help! Can you please tell me when one is to enter Australia once the spouse visa has been granted. Our case is a bit complicated as we have a fair deal of things to take care of and we need to know how much time we still can be in our home country. I came across a piece of info which stated that the time is counted from the date provided on the medical check-up. Is it really so? And if so when are you asked by the officials to provide it. How does it work? Thanx.

Your meds and police checks are valid for 12 months, and that's normally the specified date of entry. So for me I had my meds done March 2017 and when my visa was granted, I had until March 2018 to enter and validate the visa. 

12 minutes ago, Tulip1 said:

You stated you've lived together for the last 15 months, that's what you need to tell them 

Providing that doesn't conflict with her being a dependent on someone else's visa? 

4 hours ago, acc0101 said:

Her 309 visa was processed 4 years ago.  100 was processed in 2016.  and i met her in March 2017.

Her 100 granted on March, 2018. 

Is that mean a dependent child (she is 25 now), CANNOT be married or being defacto when they are in AUS during 4 years waiting time ?!?!

So when you met her in Mach 2017, her 100 had not then been granted so she was on a 309 dependent at that time. Therefore the first date that you could be classed as defacto would be March 2018, after she got her PR and no longer classed as a dependent. Therefore, you have only been defacto since then, not long enough to sponsor you on a partner visa, 

if you claim defacto from March 2017, then she was processed fraudently on the 100, and that has bigger implications for her family surely?

Whatever way you look at this, it's just dodgy. And you need to get a proper migration agent. 

17 hours ago, acc0101 said:

Hi all, 

We are going to apply 820 visa.

My girlfriend granted her PR on 100 visa this March, 2018 . Her mother is the main applicant in 309/100 visa and my girlfriend is secondary with her sister.

Is she eligible to be a sponsor or need to wait years?? 

i read sth about 5 years rule..and a bit confused

 

When you may not be eligible

You may not be able to sponsor your partner if any one of the following applies:

• you were sponsored for a partner visa as a partner yourself within the last five years

If your girlfriend was a dependent, then she can't be classed as de facto.  Immigration will see right through this and even to the untrained eye, this just seems dodgy. If we can all see it, bet your bottom dollar Immigration will. Fraudulent application is really not worth it. 

5 hours ago, Drumbeat said:

I don't believe you can enter on a tourist visa with a one way ticket and I suspect Immigration have ways of finding that out.

I've posted elsewhere that someone was recently turned back at the border for doing exactly this and now have a three year ban from entering the country. 

18 hours ago, DK1692 said:

Hi folks, this type of message has probably been posted millions of times before, so apologies if I bore anyone!  Basically, my wife and I both have enough points to move to Australia with our professions, we have two young children.  She'd never been until after the Brexit vote madness; she approached me and said she wanted us to go, as it'd be bad for us.  We did the research for Oz and NZ, it looked favourable for us overall.  Unfortunately, that Autumn she completely changed her mind.  She said she wasn't prepared to go and nor would she ever be, and if I wanted to go I could.  We very nearly split but soldiered on, and there's no way I'd leave my kids.  She remains obstinate to this day, and has openly said she'll never go.  Is there any way of trying to broach this with her again?  So many friends of ours have gone and love the lifestyle, she has family in Perth and has visited.  Apologies for the long post, just feel heartbroken about it all.

This is really only a decision that you can make as a couple. All I would say is that our migration cost us around £25,000 and we did it on the cheap. Its taken a year for us both to settle into decent paid jobs (with lots of temping in the first year), if you bring your kids, prepare for lots of upheavel, and also if after a year one of you decides to return to UK but the other one doesnt want to go, Australian law will decide that Australia is their home and that's where you all will have to stay - look up Hague Convention and international child abduction and all that, its real and I know people who are now trapped down under because of it.  

Finally the whole process of migrating, applying for visas, selling or renting out your UK home, packing all your belongings, saying goodbye to everything and everyone is not something to be undertaken lightly. You need to be in a strong committed relationship, standing shoulder to shoulder. Also Australia isn't the land of cream and honey, and that's coming from someone who married an Aussie, has been here before and is loving living here. Australia isn't the land of honey - It can bloody well sting and when that happens, you'll both need a partner who will stand by you, not someone saying this is all your fault, I never wanted to come, blah blah, if you catch my drift.

Judging from what you've said, and clearly and rightly you've not printed the whole story, it doesn't seem as tho you're strong enough or committed enough to work hard to make it work as a couple. It could be an exceedingly costly mistake, both on your bank balance and to the integrity of your family unit.  

11 hours ago, swc132994 said:

Thanks for the info, this is definitely something to think about. We have certainly noticed that good but cheap housing in a decent area is now a hard find. We have even considered finding a house way out as far as Christmas hills but then we worry if we would be off grid for utilities as well as locating a supermarket and a GP.

With Melbourne, you're better off being near your work as some commutes can be horrendous. Prices had been rising steadily over the past cpl years but they've stabilised in the Dandenong Ranges over the past cpl months, although I think Upwey in particular will continue to keep its grip, mainly because its close to the 'burbs to be useful, has the High School (they're aren't many state high schools in the Hills) and its a pretty decent suburb. 

Do you know where you could be working? CBD or elsewhere? 

If your visa is a Regional Victoria one then everywhere in the Melbourne Metropolitan area is out. 

On 22 July 2018 at 21:15, swc132994 said:

Thanks for the reply,

We have been reading a discussion from last year.

https://www.pomsinoz.com/topic/197707-cost-of-living-in-melbourne/

Our situation is actually similar. We want to follow our hearts but the numbers don't add up. Currently our combined pre tax income is £95k in the UK. However, we work long hours and our jobs are demanding. My wife wishes to spend more time with our young daughter. This is why we are hoping that we could survive on my income in Melbourne. However, it seems my job there will pay $80k. This is about average pay in Melbourne and would not enough for us. We could buy a property in Upwey area for $600k as we like the trees. However, we have a much  better lifestyle in the UK, so we struggle to see why we are going there if we follow our head.

This seems to be a now or never decision as our PR visa runs out next year . We are struggling because it's always our dream to go there. 

 

Quality of housing in Upwey is extremely hit and miss, and I haven't witnessed a property being sold in Upwey for less than 650K, due to sheer demand (it's a market I've been watching very closely for 12+ months and have personally viewed pretty much 70% of all houses advertised on realestate in last 8 months). The ones advertised on realestate.com.au for around 550-600 are going for +60-80K on top, and ALL of them in that price bracket have needed substantial work from new electrics, new heating system, to restumping (around $1000 a stump, with a 3 bed house potentially having 20-30 stumps).  Upwey is one of the strangest markets in the Hills due to the High School potentially being zoned within next year etc. Properties always go for more than advertised, normally around 50-100K more than what's online.  Also anything over 600K will attract stamp duty too, so bear that in mind.

Also bear in mind cost of utilities and rates as well. Upwey is in the Shire of Yarra Ranges so go on their website and check for rates information. And utilities are very pricey here compared to UK. 

Feel free to ask any other questions. I live in the Dandenong Ranges so know the area well.