[aussieguy]

Hey guys,

When applying for an 820 from a 300, do we only need to upload marriage certificate or is it a full application all over again? If so, do I just create new timelines/info with receipts etc from the time the 300 was approved?

Secondly, we'll be applying for the 820 in a week or 2, and are travelling overseas in 1.5 months, will travel be okay or do we need to apply for another bridging visa?

Cheers!

 

[CCMS]

Hey guys,

When applying for an 820 from a 300, do we only need to upload marriage certificate or is it a full application all over again? If so, do I just create new timelines/info with receipts etc from the time the 300 was approved?

Secondly, we'll be applying for the 820 in a week or 2, and are travelling overseas in 1.5 months, will travel be okay or do we need to apply for another bridging visa?

Cheers!

It is a completely new application and requires a full set of documents for both the applicant and sponsor.

If the PMV expires when you are overseas, you should have a BVB in place before you depart Australia.

 

[JandE]

If so, do I just create new timelines/info with receipts etc from the time the 300 was approved?

That's almost what we did, everything from after the 300 Application.
Plus of course all the ID info, personal statements and new 888's, etc

We did get a message to ignore the sponsor side when I went to do that. So we only did the applicant side.

They did ask for the form 80 aswell.

 

[aussieguy]

Thanks Nick

That's almost what we did, everything from after the 300 Application.
Plus of course all the ID info, personal statements and new 888's, etc

We did get a message to ignore the sponsor side when I went to do that. So we only did the applicant side.

They did ask for the form 80 aswell.

With your personal statements, did you write new statements BEGINNING from the 300 approval or did you include all of the original storyline/statement etc from the beginning?

 

[JandE]

With your personal statements, did you write new statements BEGINNING from the 300 approval or did you include all of the original storyline/statement etc from the beginning?

I just checked what I actually did, and I did short statements for the Financial, Nature, Social, Commitment and Development sections from our first meetings to the current date.
However, these were only brief, but succinct, statements totally only 400 words, for all 5 sections.

They may have looked back to the PMV application for more detail, if they needed. I just checked that too and that was only 563 words.

An example of what we did for the COMMITMENT section:

Since August 2014, we have been very happy together, and I am totally happy with our lives. I want nothing to change in respect to our personal attitudes to each other.
E.. makes coffee for us both every morning, as he gets up first, and I make coffee before bed every night.​

Looking back at it, it seems "not a lot", but it worked... But no wonder I was worried a lot during the wait..

I have read that some people do entire essays, and maybe it helps with some. Now I wonder what Immigration actually expect. But I am glad they approved the Visa

The 801 is next in 3 months time...

 

[Mish]

What we did for the statements is that we kept what we used for the 300 and then added the stuff since we applied for the 300 on to the end of it.