Defacto PR to Citizenship
Nov 27th 2002, 2:33 am
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Defacto PR to Citizenship
Myself and my spouse both have enough points to successfully obtain PR through individual applications. We were thinking of making a single application including one of us as a defacto spouse. This way we would only need to pay one appllication fee. Can a defacto spouse get citzenship after two years? We are on a business visa now and Citzenship would be the deciding factor to switch to PR.
Thanks for your help.
Paul
Thanks for your help.
Paul
Nov 27th 2002, 2:58 am
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Re: Defacto PR to Citizenship
Originally posted by Sandgroper
Myself and my spouse both have enough points to successfully obtain PR through individual applications. We were thinking of making a single application including one of us as a defacto spouse. This way we would only need to pay one appllication fee. Can a defacto spouse get citzenship after two years? We are on a business visa now and Citzenship would be the deciding factor to switch to PR.
Thanks for your help.
Paul
Myself and my spouse both have enough points to successfully obtain PR through individual applications. We were thinking of making a single application including one of us as a defacto spouse. This way we would only need to pay one appllication fee. Can a defacto spouse get citzenship after two years? We are on a business visa now and Citzenship would be the deciding factor to switch to PR.
Thanks for your help.
Paul
Not sure which visa you will be applying for but here is my situation
Currently on a 457 visa in sydney with my Girlfriend of 6 years as my defacto on the same visa.
Appling for a Skilled independant visa and included my girlfriend as defacto partner on the same application. My agent told me that when / if the application is approved my partner will get the same PR visa as me. Which means that after 2 years we can apply for Citzenship.
My partner's visa will not be tied to me in any way after it has been issued. Which means that if she leaves me after issue nothing can be done to take it away. Unless she commits a crime that renders her PR visa useless.
Hope this helps?
Kieron
Nov 27th 2002, 3:58 am
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Re: Defacto PR to Citizenship
Originally posted by Sandgroper
Myself and my spouse both have enough points to successfully obtain PR through individual applications. We were thinking of making a single application including one of us as a defacto spouse. This way we would only need to pay one appllication fee. Can a defacto spouse get citzenship after two years? We are on a business visa now and Citzenship would be the deciding factor to switch to PR.
Myself and my spouse both have enough points to successfully obtain PR through individual applications. We were thinking of making a single application including one of us as a defacto spouse. This way we would only need to pay one appllication fee. Can a defacto spouse get citzenship after two years? We are on a business visa now and Citzenship would be the deciding factor to switch to PR.
If you do not include your de-facto spouse in your skilled visa application, the other option will be to sponsor her for a spouse visa after your own skilled visa is approved. In this case, the spouse visa will be a temporary visa generally valid for 2 years before your spouse applies for a permanent visa, if the relationship is still current after that 2 years. Obviously this will involve the skilled visa fee plus the spouse visa fee.
Peter
