Dayna22us

Hi Everyone, I am an Australian who has been living in the United States for almost 6
months, and am married to a US Citizen. We haven't filed my papers etc yet but I was
wondering, if we wanted to move back to Australia...what would we do? Would we be
able to go together with him on a visa waiver or tourist visa??

I've heard that I would have to return home by myself, then file for him to move
legally to Australia...and that visa or whatever would take 4 months or longer...I
can't wait that long...is there any other way to do it faster? Or so we can return
and live there together???

Thank you

Jaj

    >On 8 May 2002 11:56:26 -0700, [email protected] (Dayna22us) wrote:

    >Hi Everyone, I am an Australian who has been living in the United States for almost
    >6 months, and am married to a US Citizen. We haven't filed my papers etc yet but I
    >was wondering, if we wanted to move back to Australia...what would we do? Would we
    >be able to go together with him on a visa waiver or tourist visa??

There's no such thing as a visa waiver for Australia. There is an Electronic Travel
Authority, available for US citizens: http://www.eta.immi.gov.au

The risk when arriving with a plan to apply for a spouse visa onshore is that the
spouse could be refused entry on arrival.

    >
    >I've heard that I would have to return home by myself, then file for him to move
    >legally to Australia...and that visa or whatever would take 4 months or longer...I
    >can't wait that long...is there any other way to do it faster? Or so we can return
    >and live there together???

The preferred route officially is to apply for a spouse visa offshore (ie at an
Australian mission in the US). You don't have to return to Australia yourself first.

Jeremy