Thepominlaw

Here goes,

I am a uk cititen, i am married to an australian citizen, we have been
married living in the uk for 5 years. We have one child of 4 years who
has dual nationality.

After 5 years here in the UK my wife would like to "go home" we are
currently looking into the practicalities of this.

I have been offered a full time job but the problem is it starts in
February 2005 - does anyone know the process of imigration and the
likely time period?

Thanks

john

BKate

Hi Pominlaw,

Well it's fairly straightforward if you've no character or medical issues, some links which may be of use .....

http://www.immi.gov.au/migration/fam...se.htm#booklet

Download this booklet and read throughly contains all the info you need.
http://www.immi.gov.au/allforms/books1.htm

Another helpful few pages on spouse visas.
http://www.iarc.asn.au/cis/pdf/cis05.pdf

Also frontloading should speed up your application I've attached a document which explains this!

Feel free to fire any more questions lots of people have successfully been granted and are applying for partner visas on here.

Good Luck

mlbonner

Hi John,

Assuming you are lodging at London, the max time there is 4 months. Most people seem to get them through within a month. Having been together for five years also means you'd get PR straight away and these cases 'seem' to get sorted even quicker.

THe links BKate gave you are a really good starter, like she says, just yell if you need more help. Plenty of people on here to help

Peter

Should be pretty straightfoward. If you can get your police checks and medicals done before you lodge, it's probably in your best interests. Seems ot speed things up considerably.

shecha

Hi John,
My and my hubby had very similar situation.
I was born in Oz and have duel UK/Oz Citizenship. My hubby is uk citizen and has lived in uk all his life.
Due to my Oz citizenship, my hubby applied for spouse visa and I was his sponsor (even though I don't live in Oz) which appears to be one of the easier/quicker visas to apply for.
We applied in May 04 and our visa got delayed to to hubby's ex-wife refusing to do hubby's daughters' medical. This was eventually done last week and visa was granted today.
It appears you could apply for a spouse visa and as long as you don't have problems which could delay it (like medicals for children from previous relationships), once you have provided all the necessay info, the spouse visa should take less than a week to be granted (and they have to do it within 4 months).
There's also lots of other people on here who have applied for spouse visas and theirs were granted within days of being submitted.
It appears that if you submit a 'front loaded' application it is dealt with very quickly.
Front loaded involves getting your police checks and medicals done plus all other requested info and submitting these all together with your spouse visa application, rather than submiting the application and waiting for the AHC to write to you requesting the medical(s)/police checks etc.
If you submit an application now, you should have no probs getting it granted before the job starts.
My advice is don't go through a migration agent unless you think you'll have any complications, we didn't and it saved us loads of money!
Check out the DIMIA for the spouse visa application, it's pretty straight forward.
Hope this is of help to you.
Good Luck!!!

JAJ

Has you wife thought about becoming a British citizen, if she's not one already?

As she's married to a British citizen, it's ok as long as she applies while resident in the UK - she can move offshore during processing if she wishes.
Information on naturalisation is at http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk

British citizenship may open up opportunities for her later in life (one never knows). Her UK permanent resident status will be eventually lost once she moves away to live in Australia.

Since Australia changed its law in 2002, she would not lose Australian citizenship.

Jeremy

Thepominlaw

Thanks a lot everyone you have been most helpful.

My wife does not have dual nationality at the moment, i had recently
considered this after realising after 2 years back in oz we would have
to re-apply for her to enter the country.

With regard to Medical conditions - what sort of thing are they
looking for. I have high blood pressure (a family condition - kept
under control with tablets) Would this be enough to put a halt on the
application?

Thanks again

John

mlbonner

Nope, not serious enough usually, especially if its already under control. Maybe worth taking a letter from your GP explaining this or your tablets along, then if any questions are raised you have some extra info already. If the tablets are doing their job properly the your BP maybe relatively normal anyway
They're really looking for any conditions that will be a drain on Australian welfare.