[sugufu]

Hi all! Just found out this forum and oh my! So much info. Thanks so much everyone.

Anyway, my partner and I are planning on applying for the 820 visa.
We are gathering all the info and want to lodge in the application before 1st of July (in case the fee increases with the new financial calendar!?).
We moved in together at the end of August 2017 so by the time we lodge our application we won't have been living together for the 12 months yet (as he was working up the coast and we couldn't move in till he gathered the money to move to Sydney).
I know that they take months in even start going through your application so I'm assuming that by the time they look at our application we will have lived together for over a year...
Should we nevertheless explain why we couldn't move in together previously?? Anyone had a similar situation?

Also, we initially moved in together into a sublet so we don't have a joint lease until further on... Will some screenshots with our housemates back then be enough to proof that we moved in together?

Thanks for any help about this issue !

 

[sugufu]

thanks for your answer Skybluebrewer!

We live in NSW - we had already thought about registering the relation... Would you recommend? We're scraping the money to put all this together and it is an extra couple hundred dollars so we weren't unsure about how much it would or wouldn't help.

 

[sugufu]

I'm currently on a work and holiday visa which expires in August.

I know it's a very long process and it takes a lot of gathering evidence!
We've been already months gathering everything and trying to tick all the boxes. We have been together for more than a year, but unfortunately haven't lived together for that long as he was working up in Central Coast at the beginning of our relationship (while I was in Sydney). It took us a bit of time to get us a place, and then it took us even more time to get the real estate to change the lease to our names... so probably registering our relationship will be a good idea as proof of cohabitation for 12 months is one of our weakest points.

Thanks for all the responses everyone !