Rural Relationship 820 Visa

Hey all!

My partner and I have been together for a year now, and by the time my current working holiday visa expires it will have been 17 months together. We are working to come up with all the required evidence of the relationship, however it is a bit of a struggle as we have been mostly working on separate cattle properties.

For the first six months of our relationship We were on properties that were 2 hours apart, but were still seeing each other every weekend. The next three months we worked together on a property and lived together. I was just working as his boss was injured and needed extra help until he was better. Once I was finished working with my partner I was offered a great job opportunity on a property on the opposite side of the country. It is only a six month contract and I will be returning to Queensland to be with my partner as soon as the contract is finished. We talk on the phone for nearly an hour each day and I am able to get phone records for that.

As our time spent living together was on a station, we did not have to pay for our housing, bills, or food. We had no real expenses to be able to provide proof of. Due to the nature of our work situations it makes it very difficult to live together as it can be long distances between cattle stations.

Does anyone have any thoughts or similar dealings with this situation? Will it affect our chance of being approved the visa, or is the government fairly reasonable when it comes to rural workers.

Cheers!