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Hey all,
I have looked around and couldn't really find a good answer on this. Me and my partner (same sex couple) were intending to apply for a prospective marriage visa (300) now that same sex marriage is legalised in Australia. We thought the 300 would be the best option as we intend to get married and this gave us a little extra time to gather evidence and stuff before applying for the permanent partner migration visa (We don't take pictures very often and having not realised the extent of the evidence needed for a partner visa, we kinda messed up and are worried this might seem strange as we only have 2 or 3 pictures together lying around).
My thought is that we might be considered de facto and as far as I am aware anyone already married to their partner would obviously be ineligible to apply for a 300, would de facto partners also be ineligible even if they are engaged to be married?
Just some quick info:
I am from the UK
We met online 3+ years ago
I came to Aus for a WHV (417) mid 2016 and stayed for pretty much the entire year (minus 2-3days) living with my partner the entire time (this is when we first met)
I signed the rental agreement with him which I am still on
We got a joint bank account which is still active
Around 3 months after I returned to the UK I came back to Australia on a 3 month tourist visa and returned late 2017
Currently in the UK
I'm a bit confused as to whether or not we'd be considered de facto at all (let alone if that affects the Visa 300) as the time living together was broken up (and on tourist visas not resident visas), and also wanted to ask if we should consider applying for the 820 over the 300 if this is the case.
Sorry for the long post and thanks for any help in advance.
I have looked around and couldn't really find a good answer on this. Me and my partner (same sex couple) were intending to apply for a prospective marriage visa (300) now that same sex marriage is legalised in Australia. We thought the 300 would be the best option as we intend to get married and this gave us a little extra time to gather evidence and stuff before applying for the permanent partner migration visa (We don't take pictures very often and having not realised the extent of the evidence needed for a partner visa, we kinda messed up and are worried this might seem strange as we only have 2 or 3 pictures together lying around).
My thought is that we might be considered de facto and as far as I am aware anyone already married to their partner would obviously be ineligible to apply for a 300, would de facto partners also be ineligible even if they are engaged to be married?
Just some quick info:
I am from the UK
We met online 3+ years ago
I came to Aus for a WHV (417) mid 2016 and stayed for pretty much the entire year (minus 2-3days) living with my partner the entire time (this is when we first met)
I signed the rental agreement with him which I am still on
We got a joint bank account which is still active
Around 3 months after I returned to the UK I came back to Australia on a 3 month tourist visa and returned late 2017
Currently in the UK
I'm a bit confused as to whether or not we'd be considered de facto at all (let alone if that affects the Visa 300) as the time living together was broken up (and on tourist visas not resident visas), and also wanted to ask if we should consider applying for the 820 over the 300 if this is the case.
Sorry for the long post and thanks for any help in advance.