Hey everyone!
I just joined here after searching online for info about visas that you can't find on the website.
Sorry for the long post!
A little background: I'm Australian, my partner is Kenyan and we have been in a defacto relationship since 2011. We have a daughter together who was born in Kenya but holds an australian citizenship and passport. Due to financial and family reasons we want to move to aus and so we have applied for a partner visa a few months ago from Kenya (offshore) and now we are applying for a tourist visa so that we can travel together to Australia. I quit my job here in order to move and so I have to leave by September. We want to travel together and have my partner stay for 6 months, meeting my family, being with our daughter during her 1st birthday and of course just being with her. We also have some weddings we are nvited to.
I guess our questions relate to whether they are inclined to split a family up or whether they will take into consideration that we are waiting for the partner visa and in the mean time our daughter should have both her mum and dad together. My partner doesn't work at the moment nor does he go to school so we are worried that they won't accept the tourist visa because he 'hasn't got enough reason to return to Kenya' although we have stated that there is no way he would jepodise the partner visa to over stay a tourist one and he must return to receive that.
Thoughts?? I've also heard there is a back log on partner visas and they are taking longer than 10months as per expected time frame!
Any advice or help would be much appreciate
Thanks so much
Rebecca
I just joined here after searching online for info about visas that you can't find on the website.
Sorry for the long post!
A little background: I'm Australian, my partner is Kenyan and we have been in a defacto relationship since 2011. We have a daughter together who was born in Kenya but holds an australian citizenship and passport. Due to financial and family reasons we want to move to aus and so we have applied for a partner visa a few months ago from Kenya (offshore) and now we are applying for a tourist visa so that we can travel together to Australia. I quit my job here in order to move and so I have to leave by September. We want to travel together and have my partner stay for 6 months, meeting my family, being with our daughter during her 1st birthday and of course just being with her. We also have some weddings we are nvited to.
I guess our questions relate to whether they are inclined to split a family up or whether they will take into consideration that we are waiting for the partner visa and in the mean time our daughter should have both her mum and dad together. My partner doesn't work at the moment nor does he go to school so we are worried that they won't accept the tourist visa because he 'hasn't got enough reason to return to Kenya' although we have stated that there is no way he would jepodise the partner visa to over stay a tourist one and he must return to receive that.
Thoughts?? I've also heard there is a back log on partner visas and they are taking longer than 10months as per expected time frame!
Any advice or help would be much appreciate
Thanks so much
Rebecca