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PMV - Request for More Information

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Hi All,

On Friday, I received the following request for more information:

Request Detail

Evidence of single status
Please provide evidence that both parties are single and legally able to marry in Australia.
This may be in the form of a divorce certificate (if aplicable).

Relationship history statements
Provide statements from you and your partner about:
● how, when and where you first met
● how your relationship developed
● when you decided to commit to a mutually exclusive relationship to the exclusion of all
others
● your domestic arrangements (how you support each other financially, physically and
emotionally and when this level of commitment began)
● any periods of separation - when and why the separation occurred, for how long and
how you maintained your relationship during the period of separation and
● your future plans.

I acknowledge you have made statements on your application form. The statements written
by you and your partner can be on ordinary writing paper or a statutory declaration form may
be used. Each statement or statutory declaration must be signed and dated by the author.

We already front loaded both of our divorce documents:
Applicant - Final Decree of Divorce (South Africa)
Sponsor - Divorce Order/Certificate that the divorce order has taken effect (Australia)

Could these have been missed? Should I just resubmit them with a letter of explanation? For myself, I have also received a letter from Home Affairs in South Africa to confirm my status as "Divorced". I will upload that too.

I have seen that in the ACT, a person can apply for a Single Status certificate which may be needed if marrying internationally. As we will be marrying in Australia, we don't require this. I also don't really want to get it because it will add additional costs and take about 3 weeks. Is this necessary or required from an Australian sponsor? Surely Immigration/Home Affairs is linked to the births/deaths/marriages/divorces registries and can easily verify her status internally!?

Regarding the Relationship History Statements, we read on these forums that the 5 small blocks on each of the application forms was all that was now required. The idea given was that if immigration wanted lengthy statements, they would allow more characters. Unfortunately, we had to keep condensing what we had to fit into each of those blocks, and subsequently somehow lost the document that contained our original full statements.

We now have to rewrite complete statements. This also has us concerned that maybe immigration is questioning the genuineness of our relationship. Hopefully after reading our full statements it will be more clear to them just how much we love each other and have integrated our daily lives together over the last 3 years.

So a word of advice is that maybe full statements are still required and may be best to provide these upfront to save delays and stress later.

Thanks for all the advice given on these forums though, we do appreciate it. I guess every situation is unique and every case officer/processing centre has different requirements or areas of focus.

I aim to submit these documents within this week and crossing fingers that our grant is just around the corner.
 
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