Melaina

Thank you all for your advice, much appreciated

Our ultimate plan for next yr is to move to Ireland around July 2021 if the pandemic is under control by then. We just need to be able to ensure that both I and our eldest daughter can stay in Australia (and our eldest can attend school here) until July 2021. As such, we are planning on getting myself and our eldest daughter added to my partner’s PR visa, which we think would be an 820/801 application. This will cost circa $10k - a substantial amount of money when we only want to stay for another 3-6 months. The questions I need a steer on are: 1) Is there anyway I and my eldest could get rights to stay and our eldest attend school in Australia for a few extra months via another route (e.g. bridging visa while I sort out our departure) or via our youngest daughter’s AUS citizenship? 2) Would I still be able to work if I was added to my partner’s PR visa? (our understanding is that I would be able to as I have working rights under my 457 visa); 3) What happens if our current 457 visa expires and the application for the PR visa is not yet processed? Our understanding is that we would get an automatic bridging visa as we would have paid and applied for PR? 4) Is it possible to cancel an application for PR and get a refund if the application has not been processed by July 2021? 5) Is it likely, given current pandemic/economic climate) that our PR application would be rejected? Any recommendations for an immigration advisor who could advise on our situation would be much appreciated. Thanks