For a range of reasons, the Department of Home Affairs has determined that the partner visa Australia cost, or visa application charge, of applying for a partner visa should be high. This is partly due to a desire to weed out non-genuine relationships, and partly due to the hefty workload that a partner visa application […]
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If you’ve thought about lodging a partner visa application, the odds are good that you’re aware of the long road ahead, gathering all the information you will need to provide to prove your genuine relationship to the Department – financial records, photos, letters, emails, chat transcripts, etc. etc. And then, of course, the dreaded forms
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First, eligibility criteria for the partner visa Onshore (Subclass 820) and partner visa Offshore (Subclass 309) are the same. For both, you need to establish that your relationship is genuine and lasting, and you have a commitment to your relationship into the future.
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If you’re asking this question, you are worried that the Department might think you fall short of the requirements of a ‘De Facto’ relationship for your partner visa application. This is a legitimate fear; you don’t want the Department to scuttle your application on the basis that you didn’t provide all the evidence you possibly
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Australian visa criminal record check You want to come to Australia to live with your partner, but you’ve got a bit of a past. It probably comes as no surprise that a criminal record – especially where you’ve served time in prison – can make getting your visa a little bit more challenging. Not impossible,
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This is one of the most straightforward, and yet also one of the most vexed, that people ask. The general legal definition of a ‘de facto’ relationship is one in which a person and their partner (whether opposite-sex or same-sex) live together in a genuine relationship to the mutual exclusion of all others. In practice,
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