Hi there,
I have been reading this forum for a few weeks now and have found all of the help to be invaluable. I have had a good hunt around for the answer to some of my questions but I can't seem to find what I'm looking for. I wonder if someone could help me please?
A bit of background - I am an Aussie citizen and my boyfriend (defacto partner and US citizen) and I have been living together for a year but dating for 2 years. Unfortunately the first year he was trying to sort out a working visa to live in the UK so we did spend some time apart, but he came to the UK on a 6 month tourist visa and the rest of the time he was in the US. We will be applying offshore as we're in the UK currfently. I have an old HECS/HELP debt of roughly $5000 from about 8 years ago that I had totally forgotten about until we started filling in all the forms but other than that I am pretty certain we meet all of the requirements. We don't have a lease in our name and most of the bills are in my name however we have bank statements showing my boyfriend transferring money to me each month.
We are in the process of putting together all of our documentation to apply for the defacto partner visa but unfortunately he has lost his job in the UK and needs to leave the country by November 23rd. For this reason we don't want to delay the application and have already sent off for his UK police clearance and are sending off for his FBI background check today. We found the local approved doctor where he needs to have his medical and he has booked an appointment for next Tuesday.
My questions are: Is it ok to have the medical before we send off for the app for the partner visa application? The surgery we spoke to sounded like they courier the results straight to the dept. of immigration. We don't want anything to hold up the application so thought it best to try and arrange these things before we were requested so we could have the application as front loaded as possible but now I am worried that we have to wait to book medicals when immigration tell us to proceed. Also, I am wondering if my old HECs/now HELP debt will affect our eligibility at all? I received some youth allowance about 8 years ago but asides from that I have never received any funding from Centrelink.
Thank you everyone in advance!
I have been reading this forum for a few weeks now and have found all of the help to be invaluable. I have had a good hunt around for the answer to some of my questions but I can't seem to find what I'm looking for. I wonder if someone could help me please?
A bit of background - I am an Aussie citizen and my boyfriend (defacto partner and US citizen) and I have been living together for a year but dating for 2 years. Unfortunately the first year he was trying to sort out a working visa to live in the UK so we did spend some time apart, but he came to the UK on a 6 month tourist visa and the rest of the time he was in the US. We will be applying offshore as we're in the UK currfently. I have an old HECS/HELP debt of roughly $5000 from about 8 years ago that I had totally forgotten about until we started filling in all the forms but other than that I am pretty certain we meet all of the requirements. We don't have a lease in our name and most of the bills are in my name however we have bank statements showing my boyfriend transferring money to me each month.
We are in the process of putting together all of our documentation to apply for the defacto partner visa but unfortunately he has lost his job in the UK and needs to leave the country by November 23rd. For this reason we don't want to delay the application and have already sent off for his UK police clearance and are sending off for his FBI background check today. We found the local approved doctor where he needs to have his medical and he has booked an appointment for next Tuesday.
My questions are: Is it ok to have the medical before we send off for the app for the partner visa application? The surgery we spoke to sounded like they courier the results straight to the dept. of immigration. We don't want anything to hold up the application so thought it best to try and arrange these things before we were requested so we could have the application as front loaded as possible but now I am worried that we have to wait to book medicals when immigration tell us to proceed. Also, I am wondering if my old HECs/now HELP debt will affect our eligibility at all? I received some youth allowance about 8 years ago but asides from that I have never received any funding from Centrelink.
Thank you everyone in advance!