JoshC

Thats good to hear! So I am alright leaving it until a week of so before flying? Yeah I'll be flying into Melbourne.

Hi everyone, I hope you are all well. I have had my exemption and visa approved and I am now applying for my Victoria border entry permit. My question is how long before entering Victoria do I need to apply for the border entry permit? Also is it open dated so I can enter on any day or do I have to enter on the exact day I put on the application? I’m not 100% sure of my travel date yet so don’t want to apply now and then have to reapply if the travel dates change. Does anyone know the processing time for these permits? Thanks in advance for any help.

Thanks for the replies. We will be getting professional advice before looking at making an application and what the best way to do it is, i just wanted to get some advice before hand so I can know if I should be getting my hopes up or if the chances of getting in are slim.

So would they class accidentally putting the incorrect relationship status as intentionally providing false or misleading information? Due to the De Facto visa being 12 months we thought that we had to be living together etc for 12 months to put De Facto on my student visa however at the time of application we hadn't been.

Thanks for the info. What about the previous visa application having never married rather than de facto? Would they see that as intentionally giving false information and refuse my de facto visa?

Hi, Me and my girlfriend have been together for 3.5 years however I'm currently back in the UK due to covid implications. I was previously on 2 student visas whilst we started dating and would now like to apply for a partner visa. My first question is, would I be better off applying for an offshore partner visa or getting a tourist visa and then applying for an onshore partner visa when I get there? Secondly, I have recently realised that I put my relationship status as never married rather than de facto as at the time i didn't really know what it meant and thought it was for engaged people and only counted if you had already been dating/living together for over 12 months. Will they compare the de facto visa against my previous student applications and if so would they refuse the de facto visa due to this or is there a way around it? Thanks in advance