My husband will be lodging the form offshore in the next 2 weeks. While we are not so much worried about our relationship genuineness since we have been married for 17 yrs but we are concerned about visa refusal based on his lower back pain (sciatica). His work demands a lot of sitting on a...

Need help with after applying for AAT appeal and now have to apply for new partner visa offshore.

Hi All, I had applied for a visitor visa (600) for my fiancee who is in India at the moment to come and see the weather/culture etc and later I wish to apply for a dependent visa( I am on 457 at the moment) after we get married. Since my fiancee has just left the job she is technically...

Hello! Me and my partner applied for our defacto visa in March 2017 and two days ago we got an email from the department that our visa is refused. We going to get their decision reviewed. Because we did our application on our own at first place and that did not work in our favor, we really...

Hi All, I was just wondering if anyone has been in this situation before: I applied for a student visa on May 9, 2018. Once I finished all remaining requirements like medical checks, I decided to go home to my country whilst waiting for the visa. So I purchased a ticket for May 28 returning...

Hi! I have two questions, hoping someone here might want to share their thoughts on them. 1) I'm wondering whether having a tourist visa (eVisitor 651) refused will have a negative impact on a future partner visa 820 application? Say for example the tourist visa was refused because they didn't...

Hello, Just before Christmas, the Immigration department has decided to send me a present: after a wait of 18 months, my nomination has been refused. The occupation is Retail Manager in a coffee shop (no kitchen, no chef, just reselling of products) in regional WA. The case officer refused...

I have applied for 187 visas on August 04 and my employer apply for nomination and RCB in the same time but on December 18 my nomination got refused without asking any further documents and I got 21 days for nomination review and 28 days to comment for my visa. My employer is going to apply for...

Hello, I applied twice for a holiday visa and both times it got refused. I am german and my partner is living and working in Australia. In his letter he's written that he will fully support me and wishes to spend christmas and new year with me. That he also work for the government and has got...

Hi, I am an Australia citizen and my husband is currently living in India studying Electrical Engineering full-time. We would like to live together once his studies are finished. I will apply for the spouse at the end of 2018 once he finishes his degree in mid-2019. I wanted him to spend his...

Hey, just a quick question, I'm currently on an ETA visa and me and my partner are going to apply for the 820 visa. Before I came to Australia, 2 months ago, I had applied for an eVisitor visa but was refused. Then I applied for an ETA through a travel agent in NZ, which was approved so I was...

Hi All, My husband and I are applying for a partner visa through the Cairo office. However, he was quite recently refused a student visa (due to not enough funds and other seemingly very minor issues with the application). I believe we have a strong set of evidence for our partner visa...

Hi all, I recently got refusal for 485 visa. The reason for the same was that I considere the date of results (2nd March) as date of graduation and applied for 485 visa on 3rd March. But the official statement has date of "awarded" as 8th March. Decision notice from DIBP states - "You lodged...

Hi everyone, I am currently in a tough situation, and I don't know what to do. A while back, I applied for a student visa and it was refused under the grounds that I am not a genuine student. I have decided to take this further by appealing through the AAT, as I feel that I have proof that I...

Dear community, I received a big blow today in the form of an email which said my 189 Visa application has been refused. The officer gave two reasons. Here they are briefly: 1. My skills assessment outcome came at a later date than that of the EOI invitation. (I had applied for the EA skills...

I have been refused a 485 visa due to lack of police checks for some reason was unaware i needed. I was wondering if it were worth the review (I have since gotten the clearance from Aus, waiting on US), or if it is better to leave the country and relodge the application. I have talked to two...

potentially having my visa refused because my daughter has a form of autism. Need help with what i could do to ensure i can stay and dont lose the life that I have built here. I'll try and quickly explain. So i have applied for the 189 skilled visa. My partner is a registered Nirse and the...

Hi, My question is, are there any differences between section 48 and section 48a. As i applied for protection visa and it was refused and then i applied for the review with AAT (still going on), so i'm barred under section 48a to make another protection visa application. But the thing is can i...

Hello everyone, I have got one of the strangest case possible. Pls read my old thread - http://www.australiaforum.com/visas-immigration/157530-visa-refusal.html So I can continue with the further story. Story continues.. So after replying to the DIBP on the unfavorable information received to...

Hi, I hope someone is able to advise me... I was working for a company who offered to sponsor me on a 457, the migration agent submitted their application, the nomination and my visa application at the same time. The company I worked for were refused and so I was issued with s57 and given 28...