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We submitted ours on the 26th June and haven't heard anything either, so you're not alone!

Hey all, We submitted our applications online on the 26th June 2017. Bit concerned though as we uploaded all our docs but following immi closing down the site on the 30th for updates they seem to have disappeared on my partner's section (the sponsor). There are still green ticks next to all the sections to say something has been received, but I can no longer see the file names and his attachment count has gone to 0? They are all still there on mine, is this normal?

Hi, My partner and I would like very much to apply for the offshore partner visa in the next couple of months in the hopes of going out Feb 2018. However there are some things that we would like to get advice on before we apply. My partner (27/Australian) is a uni student (currently on an exchange programme in the UK), he will be entering his final year in August back in Australia. Whereas I am in full time employment in the UK. Will his status as a student affect our application in that he may not be viewed as being financially able to support me? We are torn between waiting from him to finish his degree before applying and the fact that if we do we will have to be apart for months between his uni term dates, which we feel would also have an affect on our application. Further to this how do we strengthen our application concerning housing/living arrangements. We met online at the start of 2015 and finally in September 2015 I came over to Australia on a WHV and stayed there for 9 months. Although we already considered ourselves a couple, we became an official couple on the first day we met in person and began living together from that date. During his first semester we stayed in a share house but from November till February we lived with his mum. After that we lived together in an apartment by ourselves until I went back home late June 2016. In June 2016 he followed me back over on a year long student exchange and has been living in a combination of uni halls and my parents' house to save money for the visa. I'm worried that this doesn't add up enough time that counts as 'living together as a couple' although we've officially been together over 1.5 years and have barely been apart and see each other every day. Any help would be appreciated!