partner visa

[Deleted]

in order to sponsor your partner to aus on a partner or defacto visa you have to have lived together for 12 months ,in there country or some where other than aus,and prove to immi that you are in a commited relation ship,paying bill and shearing every thing,now if your on a dsp you can only go out of aus for 6 weeks and still get payed ,so how in hell do they expect some one to live in a nother country for 12 months in a relationship,and person you live with is not earning money as well,or not much,you cant,do they expect you to live on LOVE.people that make these laws have lots of brains ,but NO common sense.

[peter]

The Partner Visa seems to have the requirement of a "permanent residential relationship" in an overseas sitution. Since no DSP can establish permanent residence overseas and still receive the DSP, it would seem to be that no future de facto cases will arise with overseas partners.
Best bet is to rely on existing past permanent relationships.
There must be another visa somewhere........such as the Fiance Visa to cover these cases.
But with the Partner Visa now at $4,000 it gets harder and harder.........and no discount for Pensioners.

And that is exactly right...............the people who make the laws have no commonsense.

The stand out case is the OAP, where their overhead costs..........in Medicare costs and concessions............cost more than the pension payment.............and they make it harder for them to depart, which would halve the government cost.

It makes one wonder.

And in todays Australian, Julia and Wayne are going to pay for their new spending............through "savings", one of which is mentioned as possibly being..............."tightening up the disability provisions".

There are rorts under rocks all over the place...........and the rock they seem to keep lifting is......."tightening up the disability provisions".

They leave the middle class welfare alone and they make sure that the Tax Act has got more loopholes in it than a fishing net. Be like the Obeids, get a trust set up and legally pay none.

Australia has become an unequal and unfair society............and no changes ahead in sight.

[latindancer]

Jan 30, 2013 17:13:43 GMT 7 peter said:

And in todays Australian, Julia and Wayne are going to pay for their new spending............through "savings", one of which is mentioned as possibly being..............."tightening up the disability provisions".

You've got to be KIDDING !

I'm going to have to look at today's paper ......

[hypoman]

partner visa is now 4K? is this right Peter?

[immiadvice]

Partner (Subclass 309/100)
$2,680
Prospective Marriage (Subclass 300)
$2,680

[peter]

There was an article again in the Australian a few weeks ago, which mentioned in passing that as of the 1st of Jan this year the Partner Visa................I am pretty sure that it was the Partner Visa ........would increase to $4,000, and someone on the forum had flagged last year that it would increase.

I just checked it via google and it says via the Minister's Office......seems to be a press release.......under the very nice heading of .............User Pays..........as follows:

Oct 22, 2012 "changes to visa pricing announced today take effect from Jan 1, 2013. Married and defacto relationships visas to increase from $3,060 to around $4,000".

And for the "tightening of the disability provisions" mentioned in the Australian of Wednesday this week, (possibly Tuesday) its contained in an column that praises Julia and Wayne for not giving up on introducing their whoopee ideas just because there is no money available, but these determined fighters for the people will find the money...............not from thin air................not from accelerating the printing press.............or borrowing more money ........to add to their fifth massive deficit...........but they will do this from savings..............and one of those savings was mentioned as "tightening up the disability provisions.
It is strange it got a mention..............but where there is smoke..............and it has me wondering how they could tighten the provisions furthur...........but one never knows what they will do. Consistency is not their trademark.

[Denis-NFA]

And peter.... I think you are wrong.... I thought it was $4400 for a partner visa...
and no guarantees.... no refunds.... thats the cost of about 5 to 10 minutes of a mungrel Australian "Public Servant".

[peter]

Yes, a job in the Commonwealth Public Service is a gold plated career.

I thought when I first hear Peter Costello, waffling on about the "Australia Fund" that we were getting a Natural Resource Fund to store away current boom revenues for future years when the boom would be no more...........like they do in Norway and some other forward looking places and some not so forward looking like PNG.

But I was to be disappointed. Its simply a set aside to top up Australian Commonwealth Public Service Superannuation......that is so gold plated that they could not fund it from the budget!

Professional public service? Perhaps. Competent public service............perhaps again but someone is enthusiastic for inefficient expenditures...............but that must be the politicians, not the public servants.

No, it is $4,000

And I checked the Australian, Wednesday this week on page 6 and there is the article about funding the governments key programmes in this now election year budget.
A few savings are mentioned...........superannuation cut backs, review of Family Tax Benefits A and B and "furthur tightening of the disability provisions".

[immiadvice]

www.immi.gov.au/allforms/pdf/990i.pdf
Has all visa application fees.


Lodged outside Australia

Partner (Subclass 309/100)

$2,680

Prospective Marriage (Subclass 300)

$2,680

Lodged in Australia

Partner (Subclass 820/801)

$3,975

[Denis-NFA]

thanks peter

i was blown away when they sold Telstra to put it in the

"Australia Fund"

.

The so called intellectual scum that actually really do run this country and treat us like shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Denis-NFA]

hey

I see they have all Australia's guns up for sale.

It will be needed to cover the cost of super for the arseholes that get kicked out at the next election

[peter]

Strange that they have a difference in cost for the visa depending on where it is lodged.........( place where the application is submitted) ........either within Australia, or at the relevant overseas embassy.

Processing costs should be similar, or do they discount the processing costs within embassies.............due to the lower cost local hire staff?

If so, they might as well move the Canberra workload component of the visa processing unit off to some embassy where the work can be performed "more cost efficient" and give the government some "savings"...............and reduce the number of Canberra processors.

Its quite a cost difference $2,680 compared to $3,975.

One could try to lodge it offshore, either by post of personal lodgement during one"s six week visit, but I have a suspicion that the rate will depend upon one's residence, rather than one's presence, and the fee of $3.975 will apply.

If a DSP is the visa sponsor, the permanent residence will have to be an Australian one.

[Banjo]

Here's a recent AAT decision involving an overseas partner.

www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/aat/2013/31.html