Agnese

HI everyone, I hope you all doing well and staying safe. 
I have a question regarding Australian citizenship by descent. We have applied since mid September 2020 for our daughter and haven’t heard anything back. Has anyone have heard anything or had applied recently? What documents did you submit? We provided all what was asked on immi account, do we need to submit anything else? 
 

thank you  

10 hours ago, doowry said:

I'm also confused by this. I thought I went through all the steps and had uploaded all the docs for my partner visa application. Is there another separate step required by the sponsor??

Hi sponsor needs to submit his own application, it can be done either from your immi account or sponsor can make his own! When you go to new application there is form 40sp sponsorship for partner to migrate to Australia done  

55 minutes ago, lepea said:

I updated my updated my application on the 21st December so I don’t think last updated means that someone looked at it. 

I have updated my application twice since lodging it and it still stays last updated 30/05 although I submitted my application week before that and last time I added something was our police checks couple of days ago. Also regarding kids, our daughter is not part of my application, we initially wanted to get her citizenship and passport is Aus but decided to do it here in next couple of months. Only thing I’m unsure about is she has Latvian citizenship and passport already, but she was born here in uk and my partner is UK/Aus dual citizen. I guess just what I’m worried about is if she already had uk citizenship? Although we haven’t applied for it nor she has a uk passport! But both Aus and Latvia is allowing dual citizenship, I just hope we won’t need to go trough extra paperwork

2 hours ago, lepea said:

@kazronicus

this is how mine looks. 

mine also says family stage, so that’s for everyone! And also sitting on received, last updated I understand means when someone last looked trough your information or did something with it, i don’t know if  case officer downloads it or what but that’s what I understand it means

20 hours ago, kazronicus said:

Hi all... I'd be really grateful if someone could take a look at their immi account and please let me know what your applications screen looks like! I imagine most people on here are straightforward partner visas so it'd be great to have a comparison...

Hi mine says received and it’s been like that a week later since we applied for visa. Sponsors is still submitted and hasn’t changed since the date we submitted his application. Unsure if us doing our daughters citizenship by descent next month will speed up my visa process or not! 

On 05/07/2020 at 22:13, Ben34uk said:

We applied in March 2018 though a registered Mara agent 

paid our fees. Sent all appropriate documents. 
Our agent uploaded everything. The embassy were doing online updates at the time and they received our application but no documentation to support our application so without contacting us the just refused us 

we then either had to reapply again and pay the whole fee again or appeal it. 
As we feel we did nothing wrong our side we went with the appeal. 
we have been together 5 years this Christmas and have 2 children together. We just want to get over there to start our new life and have the family support we don’t have here. 
we just hope it gets looked at soon. Very hard time for us but we won’t be beaten. 

That’s horrible, knowing that you have t done anything wrong at all and especially using an agent. Hope it will be sorted out soon for you! We are in the same pot we just want some family around, here we have just friends but since our daughter was born and none of our friends have kids our priority is her and we can’t go for a pint everyday so apart from work and home mainly we feel a bit lonely  

On 03/07/2020 at 21:32, Ben34uk said:

I cannot begin to tell you. 
was hoping to be done by now as have to move out our rented home in January and then what we don’t know 

we have family and support in Australia. Here we have no one  it’s so so hard and put so so much strain on us. I just hope it’s sorted soon. We are a family woth 2 small children so all this waiting in limbo is horrific.  

I’m sorry to hear this, can’t even imagine how frustrating it must be and not knowing if and when it will be sorted out! May I ask what happened? I’m new to this forum! Me and my Aussie partner are two of us with baby girl here in London and I know how hard it is when it’s just you and no family to help out or support! Keep strong   

1 hour ago, moominfillyjonk said:

Hilarious!! We were gonna break out the champagne

Well I hope you will be able to do so soon!!! I saw some people sent email saying they have front loaded they application in full, so immi would have a look at it and some were granted visa soon after that

@moominfillyjonk HI! They send automatic email after a year of lodging your application! I really hope to get my visa before it hits one year mark