Ricey2017

Hello, Advice and I guess reassurance kindly requested. Excuse the long back story: I live in the UK, my partner lives in WA. He is a dual British & Australian Citizen, born in the UK and has lived in WA for 9 years. We have been in a serious relationship for almost 3 years, albeit long distance. I'm 41, he is 40. We met when we were 16. I used to travel a lot to WA on business, we shared holidays, and both extended periods of time in the UK & WA. In 2018 I found out I had low fertility and we miraculously fell pregnant naturally 10 weeks later with identical twins. Devastatingly we lost our babies due to missed miscarriage at the 12 week scan. It was the worst day of our lives and we want to try again, urgently. We always planned to end our distance. At Christmas just gone we made a plan for my partner to move back to the UK so we could start our forever life and try again for a family. Following the miscarriage my fertility was re-tested and ovarian reserve & AMH levels had reduced by 75% meaning that whilst there is the chance we may get pregnant again, we have to without any more delays. My GP told me last week that if we want to try again time is critically of the essence, we literally have no time to wait. In March my partner wanted to expedite moving home for us to be together but COVID-19 hit and we have both been in complete lockdown. We have spoken every day via video for 5 hours a day. We are desperate to start a family and want to be together as a couple under one roof. His family live 10 mins from my house, they are in their 70's and he has a family business in the UK. My partner is talking to his boss next week to advise them he wants to move home, and will give them 6 weeks notice so our date for moving back to England is 10th August 2020. He will need to serve notice on the tenancy agreement of his apartment on 8th July so we need to have the exemption by then. We are hoping his work will allow his job to be carried out from the UK and they may move his position to the UK. But we are prepared that it may not go that way in which case he will find employment in the UK. He has 2 years worth of Aus min. wage in savings so is more than liquid to wait for the right role to come to fruition. He will be moving into my home indefinitely in Manchester. The mortgage is in my name but when he moves back all utility bills will be in joint names. He wants to apply for the exemption to allow him to travel to the UK indefinitely. If his work do not transfer him to the UK then we won't have a job offer letter to support his application and we won't have a tenancy agreement as he will be moving into my (our) home. He wants to submit the exemption request this Saturday but won't have his shipping evidence at that point as he will be shipping all his goods a week before he departs for good. Half of his possessions are presently at his parents house as he left a lot at Christmas knowing he would be moving home this year. My GP has written a letter to support this exemption on medical/compassionate grounds. We are deeply upset at the prospect of not being granted this exemption, we have been waiting for so long now for him to move home and we are terrified we will lose our chance to be together as a couple under one roof and start a much wanted family. We feel his need to return home is on compassionate grounds, we want to start a family and every day that goes by we risk losing our chance. Does anybody have any experience of successfully receiving the exemption on compassionate grounds and how long did it take to approve? Do you think our application will be favourable? Thanks in advance.