Thanks for your replies guys, that gives me some insight. I finish my MSc in December so we could potentially live together until his visa runs out (in April) but that means leaving a good job in Ireland, where we are hopefully planning to settle and get the defacto in the first place! In terms of t...

My boyfriend (Australian) and I (Irish) have started looking into the defacto visa in Ireland. We havent lived together as I started a 2 year masters in Ireland and as he had used his irish working visa, he is now on his UK working visa, so we have to live in seperate countries. We have been togethe...