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Hi all, I am an Australian born and raised citizen. I am living here in Australia with my American defacto partner whom I have been in a relationship with for 4 years (we have been previously living together overseas) and who is now living here with me on a Working Holiday Visa As this visa is due to expire I wish to sponsor him for a partner visa. My main concern however is that I am currently a full-time student, receiving student allowances from centrelink. Will this affect my eligibility to sponsor? Are there any employment/financial minimum requirements? Does it help if we can prove my partner himself can prove he is well within his means financially? Thanks for any help!

I am an Australian born citizen, my partner is American (I know this forum is for Brits, but my question isnt nationality specific, for visa exempt countries anyways) I want to sponsor him for residency (partnership visa) but we have an elongated trip planned at the end of the year that we had planned well before we decided to apply for Aus residency (we were initially going to go for US residency for me but have since changed our minds) Anyway, we cant apply for onshore because my spouse cannot leave to go on our trip if we apply onshore as you have to stay put while its being processed. If we apply offshore, while we are travelling, will he be allowed to come to australia on a visitors visa for short stints? Our plan was NZ for a month, stop back into Aus for a week to re group and grab our snowboard gear and head to Japan for a month, come back to Aus, drop me off and my partner will fly back to America (from Aus) to await the visa process out. Can my partner stop into Aus 2 times for afew days at a time on a tourist visa with proof of ongoing flights etc if he has an offshore visa application in progress? We just want to get it started ASAP so why not as soon as we go on our trip? Thanks