paulhand

This is mainly for applicants who have done a medical for another application.

My general rule of thumb is to do police checks before lodging and medicals just after.

As the partner of a NZ citizen, they can apply for a subclass 461 NZ Family Relationship visa. You don’t formally ‘sponsor’ this visa.

Generally, yes. My point was more generic on time in Australia rather than specific to the OP’s situation.

What you declare on the application form won’t affect what appears on the certificate.

I disagree on the first point … Departmental policy does advise that spending decent amounts of time in Australia can count as a substantial tie. for the second point - it’s ‘will’ not ‘more than likely’. This is written into the regulations and there is no discretion for the decision maker … in most applications that meet the residence requirement the 5 year RRV is autogranted by the computer.

Actually it’s only taking a few days to a week or so for these types of application to be processed at the moment. The OP should be fine, but it may be worth a short professional consultation to ensure everything is properly understood and the application is properly structured.

Interesting… can you point me to the cases?

As long as you are not claiming points for him you should be fine - but obviously I have not seen all the details.

There are too many moving parts here to properly discuss this in a forum post.

For an RRV application, you need to make a separate BV application.

Everywhere other than metro Brisbane … so even the Gold Coast is ‘regional’.

To be fair to my lower rent colleagues, there were plenty of invites at 65 points in teaching professions at the last 189 invitation round in May.

There hasn’t been a 189 invitation round since then. Have you also included a 190 in your EOI, as that would make sense.

Yes … but it’s not a blanket waiver, it just lowers the bar.

Some of the medical questions are phrased “have you ever…?”, others are “do you have …?” - it’s pretty clear which ones require full disclosure of any previous condition/issues.

You should look at an RRV before starting a whole new 189 application.

Ok … in this context: Former Australian Permanent Resident = former holder of a permanent visa.

In this context: Australian Permanent Resident = holder of a permanent visa

I’d recommend getting some professional help with this to ensure that you address all the requirements.

It’s $465 to apply and unless he does, he’ll never know. It might be a long shot, but if his job offer is solid (and can be made more permanent) then I would certainly give it a shot. Compelling circumstances may be explainable as he was a minor, but quite a lot of time has passed since then.

The rationale is that medicals and police checks ‘expire’ after a year. Prior to Covid the first entry date was 12 months after the date of the earlier of these checks. They changed this to a blanket 12 months from grant during Covid and haven’t changed it back. Until you make a first entry to Australia on a visa you are open to it being cancelled if your circumstances change in a way that would have precluded the original grant (e.g. medical reasons).

Which is a “yes” to the cancer question then. They will decide whether it is of concern to them.

Another question is: ” Do you suffer, or have you ever suffered, from mental health problems?”

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