Hello everyone,
A long time lurker - first time poster here! We've used much of the advice on this forum to help apply and get my Partner Visa for Oz (thank you everyone!) but we have a problem at the last minute which is really worrying me and which I hope some of you may have had experience with.
I'm British, my partner is dual nationality: British and Australian. We applied for, and got, permanent residency for me on a partnership visa, which comes with a "must enter Australia by" date of May 16th of this year.
We're about to migrate, leaving at easter and travelling around the world for 5 weeks whilst our stuff is being shipped. So far, so lucky us.
Whenever we travel together around Europe, my partner travels on his UK passport. Yesterday we dug out and dusted off his Aussie passport and to our horror it expired earlier this month.
So my question is; when it comes to the last leg of our journey (from NZ to Oz) what do we do?? I know he has to cross the Australian border with his Australian passport, and I am concerned that my partner visa is also tethered to this. I don't think an Aussie can get a visa to enter Australia on a foreign passport, and I understand Border Security are rightly quite strict about this. So, as his Australian passport has now expired, how do we get in?
We leave in two weeks, so I'm not sure it will be possible to get a new Aussie passport in time. Any ideas? HELP! :eek: