Usman Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 After the hike in partner visa fees, DIBP has decided to increase the processing times of partner visas to 18 months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quinkla Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 They are sending a clear message that they don't want partners to move to Australia. Their preference is skilled migration or no migration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Usman Posted December 17, 2014 Author Share Posted December 17, 2014 There will be no migration either if they don't let their spouses to live with them. These rules are inhumane and violates basic human rights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Que Sera Sera Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 There will be no migration either if they don't let their spouses to live with them. These rules are inhumane and violates basic human rights. Seriously!! with all that's going on in the world you are going to quote this as inhuman and a violation of human rights!!!! :chatterbox: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
engaus Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 There will be no migration either if they don't let their spouses to live with them. These rules are inhumane and violates basic human rights. How do they violate human rights? If the UK spouse visa process doesn't violate human rights then the Australia partner visa process certainly doesn't. Give me Australian partner migration over UK spouse migration ANY day. At least Australia deems how genuine the couples relationship is to be higher than how much the sponsor earns - unlike the UK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
engaus Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 also, onshore partner visas have been sitting at 18 months for a while... Unless you were referring to a particular embassy as it does vary from country to country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quinkla Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 There will be no migration either if they don't let their spouses to live with them. These rules are inhumane and violates basic human rights. I agree. Citizens of any nation should be allowed to marry or have partnerships with whomever they want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemesis Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 For which visa and applying through where - onshore/offshore? First stage or second stage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny842003 Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 If your applying from the UK this waiting time has been like this for quite sometime. Luckily I got mine in before the change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gbye grey sky Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 Don't think this is a human rights issue but 18 months is a really long time and together with the new cost of the visa it is going to deter all but the most determined or who have no option which is clearly the intention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny842003 Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 Don't think this is a human rights issue but 18 months is a really long time and together with the new cost of the visa it is going to deter all but the most determined or who have no option which is clearly the intention. There is no human rights issue but its just seems a bit strange even with a 50% hike the prices are not exactly mental when compared to the prices quoted in the media charged by people smugglers. So if you are bogus I don't see this deterring anyone a few thousand extra dollars in total and a little longer wait is still much preferable to a perilous boat ride across the south pacific. To me it seems to be a tax on Australian citizens with foreign partners more than anything. Im not complaining mind they can do what they want its their train set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quinkla Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 Of course it is a human rights issue. Imagine you are an Australian. You want to marry, or have married a person of another nationality. You want to live together in Australia - but the Government says no, it will cost many thousands of dollars and you'll have to wait 18 months. That's not reasonable. A few weeks, perhaps, for processing but longer than that is indefensibly keeping families apart or denying the Australian the opportunity to live in his or her own country with his or her family. That absolutely is a human rights issue. And boats have nothing to do with it. Partners have never sought to enter Australia illegally by boat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny842003 Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 Of course it is a human rights issue. Imagine you are an Australian. You want to marry, or have married a person of another nationality. You want to live together in Australia - but the Government says no, it will cost many thousands of dollars and you'll have to wait 18 months. That's not reasonable. A few weeks, perhaps, for processing but longer than that is indefensibly keeping families apart or denying the Australian the opportunity to live in his or her own country with his or her family. That absolutely is a human rights issue. And boats have nothing to do with it. Partners have never sought to enter Australia illegally by boat. Well I am the partner and I am getting married in Sydney next October so although I paid the old rate and only have a year wait I don't think I would have felt mine and my fiancés human rights were impeded on. Note the increases in cost do affect me directly for subsequent visas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaggieMay24 Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 No one is saying who a citizen can or cannot marry. But any country absolutely has the right to say whether someone can move into and live in their country. That's not an infringement on human rights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
engaus Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 Was the UK spouse visa not just deemed as not being against human rights by the courts? They have a min earning requirement.... if that wasn't deemed to be against human rights then the Australian visa certainly wouldn't be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quinkla Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 Clearly there is no point in discussing human rights with epople who think it is OK for a government to tell people what to do. We just don't have a common vocabulary to engage in such a discussion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny842003 Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 Clearly there is no point in discussing human rights with epople who think it is OK for a government to tell people what to do. We just don't have a common vocabulary to engage in such a discussion. Thats kind of what we elect them for, if they didn't have power to tell people what to do then they would be a very useful government. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronyaur Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 Hi, from which country are you referring? This is not correct for UK as we are in priority group one(low risk). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bound4Tassie Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 With the price hike too this not the best new year news! Bugger! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bound4Tassie Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 Website doesn't appear to back up the 18 months rumour http://www.immi.gov.au/about/charters/client-services-charter/visas/5.0.htm Is there a source for it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronyaur Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 Website doesn't appear to back up the 18 months rumourhttp://www.immi.gov.au/about/charters/client-services-charter/visas/5.0.htm Is there a source for it? No, its someones speculation/ rumour. Its not fact. Remember this is a forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny842003 Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 It is 18 months or was I actually called the European helpline and and checked mine was still the 9 months the same as when I applied they said it was post July or August the 18 months came in to effect. I applied June so I was lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peach Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 I submitted my partner visa application in Jan 2010 and it took nearly seven months before the visa was granted. Had I managed to get the application in two weeks earlier, it would have cost about 20% less and taken only a month at most to process. Those were the days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quinkla Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 Had I managed to get the application in two weeks earlier, it would have cost about 20% less and taken only a month at most to process. Those were the days. It might still have taken longer. I applied in November 2009 and it took 3 months to process mine - but they did F up my medicals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemesis Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 How things have changed. I remember the days when you could walk into Australia House with a pile of paperwork and about £300 and walk out half an hour later with a visa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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