elizabethfine

Hi everyone! I'm happy to be joining your forum. Like everyone else, I am putting together my offshore partner visa right now and I have a few concerns/questions I'm hoping that you might be able to shed some light on. 1) I am American but I've lived in England for one year and will be living here for one more year (with my dual citizen AUS/UK partner). Do I need to lodge my application with the AU embassy in New York since I am not a UK resident...or can I just go through the embassy in London? 2) I have lived with my boyfriend for 1 year now and will continue living with him till our visa is processed. However, I'm worried about the joint commitments section of the visa. Both of our names are on our lease which is good. All of our bills are in his name, but I can show in my bank statement that I transferred him money every month for half of the bills. We also have statutory declarations we can give, and joint correspondences to this address from family members. But...we don't have each other included in our wills (we dont even have wills), and we dont have any joint assets (neither of us have any assets..lol). We also don't have a joint bank account and havent really made any financial commitments together. Is this bad? Its just that we haven't really undergone any major financial commitments as individuals (much less as a couple). No house, no car, no private insurance, no wills, no loans since we met each other, etc. Thank you so much you guys! Elizabeth