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| Permanent Residency Granted!; Spousal Visa processed and I'm here for a while........ | |
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| Topic Started: Mar 6 2010, 09:11:48 PM (311 Views) | |
| jenbrooklyn8 | Mar 6 2010, 09:11:48 PM Post #1 |
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Hi all, I'm not a big writer on the site but I did want to let you all know about my Permanent Residency coming through, quite unexpectedly fast, especially since I turned in my statutory declarations in way late, (In my first year baby haze I neglected to notice the "within 60 days of receiving this letter" part of the letter when it arrive in November. I only went back and read it after reading on this very site that I only had 60 days to get the second stage initial paperwork in! Add in the holidays, the federal police check and it was way more than 60 days........) I called immigration and explained the situation and they just said: send it this week and you'll be fine. 3 weeks later, I'm a PR! Disclaimer: I did have a baby with my Aussie husband last year and I think they looked at the birth certificate, read our essays about being sleep deprived and having a minimal social life and kind of assumed that bringing a new Aussie into the world was pretty good evidence of an ongoing and committed relationship. So, if any of you are thinking along those lines.......... just kidding. My whole story of getting the spousal 820 Visa seems too easy as well. I'm one of the ones that took a different route: came here on an ETA and married my fiancee 2 months later. We planned it that way because at 38 I didn't have the time to wait for a prospective marriage visa and as Harry says in when Harry met Sally "when you figure out what you want from life you want it to start right now!". I researched all of the other routes, but fashion designers did not rate so high on the points scale, and my age worked against me in that respect as well. My husband to be and I were committed to our relationship and had spent a year after his move back down to Oz flying back and forth before I finally decided it was time for me to move to Melbourne to be with him. The ring helped a lot with that decision as well! I spent over a month preparing my application and included everything I had: photos, e-mails, invitations, wedding cards, pictures my step kids drew of all of their potential brothers and sisters, photos of the dollhouse we built my stepdaughter that first Christmas, (I had a lot of time on my hands those first months before I could work: I even built and upholstered a couch for Barbie!) So, I guess the bottom line and the moral of my post is that if you are moving here to be with someone, if you have a committed relationship, no matter what route you take, immigration can see that and they do come through in unexpected ways for such a bureaucratic system. Having a baby didn't hurt either.... as my husband says, one for the mother, one for the father and one for Australia! Luckily, he had the first two and my daughter was very happy to arrive on Aussie soil. Good luck to everyone else going through it...... Jennifer |
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| pastrycook-136 | Mar 6 2010, 10:20:42 PM Post #2 |
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| TerritorianTori | Mar 6 2010, 11:15:33 PM Post #3 |
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Congratulations on getting your PR approved!  (incidentally, I did things much the same way you did ... and I was pregnant with my youngest when my own PR was approved )
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| blarg | Mar 7 2010, 05:50:15 PM Post #4 |
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| shylady | Mar 7 2010, 06:41:38 PM Post #5 |
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"I could’ve turned a different corner, I could’ve gone another place... " ku,'09 | |
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| minx | Mar 7 2010, 06:44:00 PM Post #6 |
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