Australian spouse immigration DIY: applying for a visa "two steps"

Netease Education News According to the Shanghai Overseas Chinese News, a while ago, I received a phone call from a reader asking about the immigration of Australian spouses, which made me think: How can such an important immigrant army be forgotten? The problem of spouse immigration is mainly visa and guarantee. If you also have relevant information to know, please have a look at the detailed introduction of this issue.

Noun interpretation

Spouse migration refers to the status of spouse, potential spouse (fiancee or fiance) or dependency relationship between Australian citizens and permanent residents. Applicants for such immigrants must have a marriage relationship or cohabitation relationship with the guarantor. (If the application is based on cohabitation, this relationship must have been maintained for at least 12 months before the application. To apply as a potential spouse (fiancee or fiance), the applicant must have been engaged to the guarantor and plan to get married. To apply for a dependency relationship, the applicant must be at least 18 years old and have a dependency relationship with the guarantor (including same-sex couples, but not limited to this).

Spouse visa processing flow

Spouse visa is generally carried out in two stages. The first stage: temporary spouse visa (subclass 309/820); ); The second stage: permanent spouse visa (subclass 100/80 1).

Usually, applicants can only get a temporary spouse visa first. You can't apply for a permanent visa until you get a temporary visa for two years. When applying for a permanent visa, the applicant does not have to pay the application fee.

Under special circumstances, the applicant can directly apply for a permanent residence visa. The prerequisite is that the applicant and guarantor have been in a spouse relationship for more than 5 years, or the applicant and guarantor have given birth to children.

No matter what kind of visa, the most important thing is to prove that the relationship between the two sides is true and continuous.

In Australian immigration law, cohabitation is an important criterion to prove the true and long-term relationship between husband and wife. When the spouses don't live together or have known each other for a short time, the application for spouse visa may be more strictly examined to prove that their separation is temporary or necessary, and sufficient evidence should be provided to show that the two sides maintain their relationship during the separation.

Actual combat case

Ordinary 309 spouse

Immigration visa process

Narrator: Wu Jieyu.

My husband and I registered to get married in Australia, and then lived in Australia for a while. After returning home, I applied for a 309 spouse immigrant visa. The information needed for the visa was mailed to the Australian Consulate in Shanghai by myself.

According to the requirements of applying for 309 spouse immigrant visa, Form 47 was filled in, and the main contents of the Form are as follows:

1. My basic information, name, ID number, date of birth, etc.

2. Marital status, if married, the name, date of birth, place of birth, date of marriage, how to terminate it, and whether there are children;

3. The contents of the application include whether the child or any other person has served in military service and whether he can use guns; Family members include parents, siblings, children's gender, date of birth, marital status and country of residence;

4. Whether there is a record that the visa has been revoked, and whether it has been subjected to criminal punishment (without criminal notarization);

5. Spouse details, including spouse's name, gender, date of birth, place of birth, copy of passport, etc. , spouse's nationality or residence in Australia, address, telephone, fax, e-mail, spouse's financial security information (spouse's tax bill, income, bank account, etc.). );

6. Copy and original of Australian marriage certificate (only one piece of paper);

7. Details of love and marriage, 1) When and where did they meet, and 2) When and where did they start their spouse relationship and provide marriage details. This is very important, the more detailed, the better.

It is necessary for me to collect all our things together when mailing materials, including our phone bills, our photos, photos of my husband coming to my home, letters I received at home in Australia and so on. These things will be returned to you intact after they have read them.

Then there is the interview. My husband and I interviewed separately. I was received by a young China female immigration officer. She is very friendly, very quality, very kind, not condescending, but very strict. She asked me a lot of questions, such as chatting at home, seemingly everyday small questions, but it was these insignificant small questions that made the immigration officer judge whether the marriage was true or not.

For example, she asked me: How many friends does your husband have? What are their names? What color is your husband's car? Your home phone number, address, what does your husband call you, how do you call your husband, and so on.

After the interview, the immigration officer asked me to supplement some information and then made an appointment to let me go again.

My materials are basically complete, and there are not many supplementary materials. After that, I went to their designated hospital for a physical examination, including taking blood pressure, taking blood, urine test and taking chest X-rays. It is said that I am checking for AIDS, hepatitis, tuberculosis and heart disease.

In the last interview at the consulate, the immigration officer asked some small daily questions. After that, the visa was approved soon. (Zhou Jia))