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Hi everyone,
Just wanted to share with you all the timeline of myself and my partner’s application for a de facto visa, since I have spent a lot of time on this forum searching for much needed answers/translations from legal jargon!
I’m from the UK, my partner is Australian by birth. We had only been together for a year before we lodged our application, which I think might be why it took so long, but who knows.
January 7th 2017 - Lodged application including passport details, birth certificates etc, but most of our evidence was uploaded afterwards and as it happened
January 13th 2017 - Granted bridging visa A
May 2017 - Completed health check in Melbourne, as instructed to by DHA
October 2018 - Request for more information (new police check as initial one had expired)
November 2018 - Temporary stage granted, finally
December 2018 - permission to apply for permanent stage
It’s been a loooooong, frustrating road, but relieved I can finally travel freely without applying for another bridging visa in case anything were to happen at home.
So yeah, all up, 23 months to get to temporary.
Just wanted to share with you all the timeline of myself and my partner’s application for a de facto visa, since I have spent a lot of time on this forum searching for much needed answers/translations from legal jargon!
I’m from the UK, my partner is Australian by birth. We had only been together for a year before we lodged our application, which I think might be why it took so long, but who knows.
January 7th 2017 - Lodged application including passport details, birth certificates etc, but most of our evidence was uploaded afterwards and as it happened
January 13th 2017 - Granted bridging visa A
May 2017 - Completed health check in Melbourne, as instructed to by DHA
October 2018 - Request for more information (new police check as initial one had expired)
November 2018 - Temporary stage granted, finally
December 2018 - permission to apply for permanent stage
It’s been a loooooong, frustrating road, but relieved I can finally travel freely without applying for another bridging visa in case anything were to happen at home.
So yeah, all up, 23 months to get to temporary.
