Great news for us -

Yesterday I sent an email to the QLD partner visa email address asking for more information about my sponsor status being changed to 'Approved' on our 820 / 801 application.

About half an hour ago my partner received an email with her 820 grant!

Boom - stress lifted.

Now we move on to the 801 queue!

Hello guys! I’m so glad I found this website �� Anyways, I’m 22 years old from the Philippines and my partner, Australian, is 23. We just lodged our application (Defacto onshore) this month and already have a bridging visa but will be effective on Feb 2018 since I’m still on tourist visa at the moment which will expire on Feb. We are currently living with his parents in their own house and we have been de facto for 8 months now. We already registered our relationship for us to apply for this visa. My concern is, I’m afraid we are not going to prove that we are in a defacto because we don’t have bills that are named after us because again, we’re still living with his parents and they support our needs too, e.g. paying house bills. How can we prove that we are in a defacto relationship? Thank you so much to everyone who will help us. Godbless!

Like after 18 months or 20 months later I can call?

Thank you :)

Um, why didn't you wait another 4 months before applying? You just said you've only been de facto for 8 months? Surely you know you're meant to demonstrate in obvious terms 1 whole year of being in a relationship to the exclusion of all others.?! How did you expect to do that by applying so early??

What PDF software did y'all use to compress PDFs to smaller sizes? I am creating documents in word, converting them into PDFs, and found that some of my documents exceed 5mb max. I have an Apple MacBook, but could look at anything you used that was super easy

I used PaperPort but not on a fruit.

I used the website Smallpdf on my mac with no issues :)

Hi. Excuse me. But I forgot to tell that we already Registered our Relationship here in NSW. So. Basically it's okay to apply even if we're only 8 months as defacto.

You have already asked this question in a separate post in which you have received extensive feedback from the community.

Yeah, I read about it in a separate thread. You still have the issue of proving the depth of your relationship from the period before you made your application. From what you've mentioned, you admit you made an error by applying as soon as you did. You could have waited till just before your visitor visa expired. That money would have accrued interest in that time too! AND you wouldn't have had to wait for your BVA to kick in so you could legally work.

I gotta say, I'm amazed at how some people can spend A$7K on their application with out reading all the relevant caveats and information first. The mind seriously boggles.