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Hopefully you get yours early then as well! We have been together for 7 years and have two children so we were hoping we would get the 100! Are you in a similar situation?

Thank you everyone! And thanks to you Pookie72, it must have been your post! Congrats JarvisG! Amazing feeling!

We just got the grant email!!!!! And straight to 100! So excited I'm still shaking! 8 months 24 days! Bubbles tonight!!!!!!!

Hello, long time lurker here but thought it was about time to post since we applied on 16/09/14, case officer VF, getting excited that could possibly be so soon! :-)

Great, thanks for advice everyone. Will definitely include 3 years evidence and then some random evidence for previous years. Yes, our children have Oz citizenship through descent, have got certified copies of their citizenship certificates and their OZ and UK passports so that is all covered! I didn't realise you could ask to be considered for 100 so will definitely ask for that! Thanks once again, everyone very helpful! x

Thanks so much snifter! That sounds much more reasonable than putting all the documents in. Will definitely put in random proof from every year we have lived together! I am the sponsor so yes have all that organised already. Do you know if we need to provide all previous passports, obviously we have the current ones but my hubby doesn't know where he has put his previous one and wondering if they really need it? If so, we'll be turning the house upside down to find it! :-)

Hi, we are about to lodge our partner visa offshore in London but concerned about amount of documentation. We have been together 6 years and living together for 5 years. Would you include tenancy agreements and bills, bank statements for the whole of the 5 years or just past 12 months as that is all you need to have been living together for. We have 2 children together so not too concerned about all the proof but just don't want to overload with documentation if we don't have too! thanks!

Thank you so much for your replies! I think I was getting confused with all the wording and got muddled reading it and re-reading it! I thought it would have been hard to get them signed and to get them to us within the 6 weeks, so thank you for putting my mind at rest!!

It is in the partner migration booklet (page 28): "Statements from certain persons usually barred from applying for a Partner visa If you: are in Australia; and do not hold a substantive visa; and have had a visa refused or cancelled since your last entry to Australia (other than visa cancellation or refusal on character grounds or a Partner visa refusal); and wish to apply for a Partner visa; then in order to make a valid Partner visa application, you must provide statutory declarations from 2 persons who: are aged 18 years or over; are Australian citizens or Australian permanent residents; and can support the existence of your relationship with your partner. These statutory declarations can be either completed by using either the: blank statutory declaration template available from the Attorney-General’s Department website http://www.ag.gov.au or form 888 Statutory declaration by a supporting witness relating to a partner visa application available from the department’s website http://www.immi.gov.au/allforms/pdf/888.pdf or from any office of the department or Australian mission. The statutory declarations must have been made no more than 6 weeks prior to the day you lodge your application. Note: If you provide these 2 completed statutory declarations, and they give sufficient evidence to support the existence, as well as the history, of your relationship with your partner, in most cases they will also be acceptable for the purposes of assessing the social context of your relationship (see page 27)."

Hi everyone, my partner and I are submitting our partner visa application in London at end of July. We are just concerned about the 6 week validity of the stat decs by friends/family as one of our friends has already got her stat dec (form 888) witnessed and certified and going on this 6 week limit it will be not valid by then. Does this 6 week limit apply for off shore applications? Many thanks!