Hi there,
I've been in Australia since September 2009, on a working holiday visa. I met my australian boyfriend over here, in my second week of being here and we're still together. I decided I wanted to stay here a bit longer and see how things went, so I did 3 months labour work in regional Australia so that I could apply for my second year working holiday visa. I am back in the UK in September so my plan was to apply for it before this one expires, but the farmer I worked for has given me useless evidence and we were payed cash in hand so it's all a bit dodgy... I don't want to risk it because I heard that if your visa application gets rejected then you can't apply for any other visas?
So, I'm now looking at other options. My boyfriend and I decided we want to apply for the partnership visa. However we have one massive problem, he's in the military and has been deployed in Afghanistan for the past 6 months. He still has about 2 months left. We were living together before he left but we have no way of proving it, I was just staying at his place for a couple of months before he left. Will him being in the military work in our favour in this case? I was just wondering what kind of evidence we need to gather to process our application?
He's coming to the UK to meet me once he's back from overseas, which will be in October this year, and we plan to sort out our application then. So I'll be applying for it offshore. Does anybody know how long these visa applications take to be processed? And what the next stage is? I really don't want to be apart from my boyfriend much longer... any help/advice would be much appreciated!
I've been in Australia since September 2009, on a working holiday visa. I met my australian boyfriend over here, in my second week of being here and we're still together. I decided I wanted to stay here a bit longer and see how things went, so I did 3 months labour work in regional Australia so that I could apply for my second year working holiday visa. I am back in the UK in September so my plan was to apply for it before this one expires, but the farmer I worked for has given me useless evidence and we were payed cash in hand so it's all a bit dodgy... I don't want to risk it because I heard that if your visa application gets rejected then you can't apply for any other visas?
So, I'm now looking at other options. My boyfriend and I decided we want to apply for the partnership visa. However we have one massive problem, he's in the military and has been deployed in Afghanistan for the past 6 months. He still has about 2 months left. We were living together before he left but we have no way of proving it, I was just staying at his place for a couple of months before he left. Will him being in the military work in our favour in this case? I was just wondering what kind of evidence we need to gather to process our application?
He's coming to the UK to meet me once he's back from overseas, which will be in October this year, and we plan to sort out our application then. So I'll be applying for it offshore. Does anybody know how long these visa applications take to be processed? And what the next stage is? I really don't want to be apart from my boyfriend much longer... any help/advice would be much appreciated!