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Hey guys, I am getting ready to apply for a partner visa and I have a question about proving that our relationship has continued despite time apart.
In the fact sheet on homeaffairs it states that applicants may need to show that 'any periods of separation, when and why the separation occurred, for how long and how the couple maintained their relationship during the period of separation'
We maintained the relationship almost exclusively via internet communication and I have collected the skype logs from when I have been in the UK and him in Australia. However from just the first time we were apart (about 3 months while I applied for a tourist visa) I have over 3000 lines of text showing both text messages and call durations. We are currently apart again (reluctantly) while I prepare to apply for an offshore visa and I expect by the time I apply I will have a similar if not larger log file for this period.
Is it worth adding this to my documentation for the visa, or will it be unnecessary. I would honestly not want to put anyone through the trauma of reading 3000 lines of our chitchat, let alone twice, even if they wanted to. That said if it does help our case I'd obviously want to provide it, even if just to show that we were in contact almost every day. Is there a better way to prove this that doesn't involve uploading the raw chatlog file? What did you guys do if you had to prove the relationship was maintained during time apart?
Thanks for any help
In the fact sheet on homeaffairs it states that applicants may need to show that 'any periods of separation, when and why the separation occurred, for how long and how the couple maintained their relationship during the period of separation'
We maintained the relationship almost exclusively via internet communication and I have collected the skype logs from when I have been in the UK and him in Australia. However from just the first time we were apart (about 3 months while I applied for a tourist visa) I have over 3000 lines of text showing both text messages and call durations. We are currently apart again (reluctantly) while I prepare to apply for an offshore visa and I expect by the time I apply I will have a similar if not larger log file for this period.
Is it worth adding this to my documentation for the visa, or will it be unnecessary. I would honestly not want to put anyone through the trauma of reading 3000 lines of our chitchat, let alone twice, even if they wanted to. That said if it does help our case I'd obviously want to provide it, even if just to show that we were in contact almost every day. Is there a better way to prove this that doesn't involve uploading the raw chatlog file? What did you guys do if you had to prove the relationship was maintained during time apart?
Thanks for any help