Hi guys, Myself (Irish) and my aussie boyfriend have sent off our application for a de facto spouse visa this week. He has to go back to Australia in February. We got all the medical tests and everything done - they shouldn't need to ask us for any more info. Just wondering if anyone has any idea ho...

Thanks everyone, A couple more questions for you. How do you write the personal statement about how you met, how the relationship developed etc? Do they just want facts or do they want like a story with details and feelings etc? Is there any where you can see a sample statement? Also, when it says t...

Hi, As far as I know the fact that you have been apart for a while shouldn't affect you too much as long as you can prove that the separation was only temporary, and it sounds like it was for a legitimate reason too. I don't think that having lived in Australia and / or having degrees from Australia...

Thanks a million! I hope ours gets sorted out so quickly. One more question, most of the time we have been together has been spent in Ireland so we don't really know any Australian citizens who can give us statutory declarations. (We know one in Ireland who doesn't know us all that well, and a few p...

Thanks for your help,

We don't want to get married yet, we only just turned 23. I just hope it doesn't take months to process, so that he'd have to go back to Australia and leave me hereto wait for it.

If anyone else has any advice it'd be much appreciated.

Dee

It's a De Facto spouse visa, for when you are not married to an Australian citizen but are in a long term spouse-like relationship with them.

Hi everyone, Myself and my Australian partner are currently living in Ireland and want to move to Australia with the De Facto visa. I was wondering if anyone could answer a few questions for me. Does anyone know how long it takes to process the visa application? We have been together for over a year...