Hi everyone! Newbie to the forum here. Currently in Oz and going home to the UK this evening, will be looking at applying for an offshore 309 partner visa as soon as possible. As my hubby/sponsor and I have a child (dual citizen) together I would like to have everything in place as soon as...

Hi all I have had no luck trying to find a clear answer between whether I should go to a public notary here in Singapore to certify documents or whether I only have to upload to immi account and colour scan original documents, passport, birth cert, etc without them being certified? Please...

Hi we are applying for an offshore partner visa and I am lost when it comes to certifying the documents since the OZ embassy here in Singapore doesn't handle such requests for migration. I have found a public notary who charges 75 SGD per certificate. She has suggested I do this as a...

Recently, I lodged 309 visa online and started uploading documents. For a few documents I selected wrong document type in drop down for example I selected Marriage, evidence of and uploaded flight tickets booked for my wife. I am now panicking as I am unable to change this type.. What should I...

Hello I'm looking for some reassurance regarding my partner's application. Applied for the partner visa in May 2016 offshore, he's Zambian and the closest processing centre is Pretoria. Have not received any correspondance since the acknowledgement of the application received, not even a...

Hi I am new to this forum I wanted to ask if anyone can give me feedback regarding Migration Intelligence located in Tarneit. The Migration agents name is Achint Kishore and his wife Dusit Singh. I have been shopping around as I'm wanting to use a Migration agent to apply for an offshore partner...

Hi! All Im new to this forum. I would like to share my application status with you guys and would like to read your story like me. Application Date- 30 June 2015 Apply Online- 309/100 location- Offshore (Bangkok) Agent- Yes Medical request- 13 July 2015 Medical Submitted- 16 July 2015 Police...

Hi everyone, I hope I can get some answers too. My partner overstayed and he is currently on Bridging Visa C. Our agent told us that we should prepare for refusal (sub 820/801). So we have decided to go to Europe together and apply for 309/100 visa. He has been in Australia for couple of years...

Hi everyone , I'm a newbie here.. I'm in the process of gathering all the supporting evidence for our 309 offshore spouse visa. We will apply online from Italy. I have organised two form888 being filled out by my mum ( aus resident ) and my friend ( aus citizen ). I want to ask some of our...

Hey all, Applied for the 309 offshore in the UK back in June 2014 (like alot of other people on here) and still no luck! We were both living in the UK until Carrie my australian partners UK work holiday visa ran out in Oct'14. instead of living apart we then moved to Vietnam for what we thought...

Hi there, We just started filling the Online Visa forms and I have so many questions. I know there is a word limit of 2000 words. Are we expected to write that much? For some parts, we don't have much to say, and I worry we aren't writing enough. And since we started the application process...

We are applying for partner visa offshore application (Subclass 309). I (husband/spouse/sponsor) am an Australian Citizen (Indian nationality) living in Sydney,Australia. My wife (applicant) holds Indian passport but residing in USA on H1 Visa (Work Visa). We met in India on Feb 2014 and we...

Hi, My Balinese fiancee has just been granted a one month single entry subclass 600 visitor visa with a no further stay condition and she will come here from 16 Dec 2013 to 14 Jan 2014. At this stage we are planning to get married whilst she is here in late December. Upon her return to Bali I...

hi all i would like to ask two questions my story: in 2011 november i applied for a prospective marriage visa, my CO stated that our application maybe leading to a refusal, so at that time i had told her that i want to change my application to a partner visa i showed them all the evidence...

Hi, My partner and I are planning on applying for the Partner visa: Offshore (309) in a few weeks time however there is one little issue that has been bothering me about the whole thing. We have been living together/de facto for 13 months now in Australia so we meet the 12 month requirement...

Hi all! So so grateful for this forum and all of your advice. I am Australian living in Barcelona with my Catalan partner. We are in the final stages of pulling together the application. We have been given conflicting advice as to how to certify Australian stat decs here (written by...

Hi, so i guess i´ll give a quick description of our situation. I met my Brazilian man in Australia last June, 2011. I´m an Australian citizen. He had overstayed his Australian student visa, so after we had been dating for a few months had to leave Australia and return to Brazil. I finished my...

Hi everyone, My Australian husband and I are in the process of getting together all the fun stuff for an offshore partner visa. I've nearly gotten everything gathered, save for my AFP background check (and my passport with my new last name, but that's another story!) I intend to apply...

OK, so this is complicated question so I need some solid advice. My husband is coming from Australia to visit me in the US in a week. We're getting ready to lodge my offshore partner visa 309/100. I'm going back to Australia with him in May and I'm planning to travel around Oz and go to NZ. I...

I am an Australian citizen and my partner is a UK citizen. We will be applying for a (same-sex) partner visa in July 2012. At the moment we are both living in the UK (I'm on a working holiday visa), however we want to come back to Australia and apply for the partner visa from there. She has...