Q&A: De Facto Partner Visa — do I have good evidence? Any advice?
Question by Sarah: De Facto Partner Visa — do I have good evidence? Any advice?
I’d just like to put what evidence I have accumulated over the past 6 months, and I’d like to know if it sounds solid so far, and what I can do to make it better.
Financial aspect:
– Joint bank accounts
– Receipt of English classes, that I paid for my partner
– Receipt of Working Holiday visa, that I paid for my partner
– Receipt of Visa Medical, that I paid for my partner
– Bank statements, showing times where I paid for things together, and also Metcards that I bought for ourselves to travel together
– Receipt of Registering the De facto relationship at BDM, which I paid for (and may or may not be successful)
– Receipts of tourist things that we did together (eg. tickets for Tree walk, exhibitions, movie tickets)
– All of our metcard for the last 6 months, showing the bank card details
– Receipts from Australia Post, from when we sent over packages to his family in France (some were very expensive, 0 in postage)
– The actual De Facto Partner Visa fee, we are sharing the cost
Other evidence:
– Photos together, with his family in France, with my family here, and photos alone
– Statuatory declarations (my mother, my sister, my dad, my sister’s boyfriend, my friend (all Australian citizens who are 18+ years old)
– Phone call history, my phone bill showing all the times I called him while he was in France
– Skype history for three years, showing all dates that we had conversations
– Letters posted to us both from his family in France
– Receipt for a computer for which I lent Vincent the money
– Statuatory declaration from my mother explaining our living arrangements (we live with her)
– Evidence that my partner is the Beneficiary of my Super/Pension if I die
– Certificate of the relationship register with the Registry of Victoria (BDM) [If we are successful]
– Brochures, tickets, metcards of outings that we did together
– I’m going to tell Centrelink (I get Youth Allowance) about our relationship
Also — we have our plane tickets for when I saw him in France and when he came here to stat living with me.
Best answer:
Answer by Sign
You have it all there it seems, but do not forget the main issue is whether your interview and other persons interview is successful, what I mean by that is do you both say the same thing on different related questions.
Get your note book out and polish up on that.
By the way,you are well organised.
Good Luck!
What do you think? Answer below!
Not likely, you would need to be married.
You have started off well however you really need bills in both your names at the same adress like phone, electricity , rent.
The stumbling block will very likely be the date you notified Centrelink about your relationship – THAT will be considered the first date of you living together and the 12 months proof will need to be after that. All what you have provided is not living together in a relationship proof but dating proof. Assuming you are under 25 there is nothing that you have posted (except the BDM) which is any different from a couple having a boyfriend girlfriend relationship.
For immigration purposes you really have to prove that this is THE major relationship in your life. Without having proof life rental forms, electricity bills etc in your names, the de facto registration is not going to be taken seriously. This registration is mostly for same sex couples when used for immigration purposes. If you have not let Centrlelink know that you were in a defacto relationship as soon as he moved in – you have shot yourself in the foot as you have proved to immigration that this is not a real relationship of long standing. While the BDM may have been filed – your leaving notification to Centrelink until after this indicates that this is a “marriage for immigration purposes only” whether it is or not.