Relationship evidence - take it seriously
Why do we need relationship evidence for an Australian partner visa or even a tourist visa? How important is this?
Relationship evidence in Australian partner visa applications and tourist visa applications for Australian Filipina couples is vital for a successful visa application that ends in a visa grant. You need to provide quantity and quality evidence of a genuine relationship, as well as to ensure that there is no false information or bogus documents that can lead to a visa refusal.
http://www.downundervisa.com.au/2016/09/02/relationship-evidence-take-seriously/
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Does the Embassy or DIBP investigate your application information?
Yes, my oath they do! They will scrutinize all visa applications, and will pay special attention to those where the evidence or the facts of the case are not quite what they should be. Even more reason why you should follow our guidance from the start. And they will pick out random applications and will go through they with the proverbial fine-toothed comb and look for errors.
What will kill your visa application stone-dead is false information. False statements and bogus documents and omissions of important facts, especially those which may influence the decision of the Case Officer whether to grant the visa or refuse the visa, these are the factors that will lead to a visa refusal and a three year ban. Regulation 4020 is the law that will come into effect.
Examples:
I heard recently that Departmental officers are increasingly calling up those friends and relatives who have completed Form 888’s supplied in support of partner visas applications, and sometimes they hear some strange things:
“I hardly know them- I just signed as a favour to my brother”
“Met them at a pub and agreed to sign”
“I didn’t read it-the migration agent prepared it and I just signed”
These are false statements! These Form 888’s will be considered bogus. They are also statutory declarations, and those who sign them are open to prosecution too.
And I read a recent high court decision with a refugee case, where the applicant from Bangladesh had claimed he was subject to persecution because he had become a Christian in an otherwise Muslim country.
Guess what the judge referred to? His Facebook page! Stated he was a muslim, and had no references to his new-found faith!
What do you think the Case Officer will think if they happen to look up YOUR Facebook page and see photos of you with somebody else in romantic poses? How about if your Facebook page refers to yourself as “single” when you are supposedly engaged? Don’t think they won’t do it!
Proof of a genuine relationship
And the other issue as I touched on is the onus is on you to prove via the visa application absolutely that you do have a genuine relationship, and a solid commitment to each other to live a shared-life. They expect this especially when you are there in Australia living as a couple. I explained this indepth in a recently BLOG ARTICLE, which you should read again if this affects you. If you act like an uncommitted couple, they will see you as one.
If you are living together as a genuine couple, they will expect to see you have well and truly set-up-house together and are doing all the normal couple-things. I won’t go into specifics here, as this is a BLOG article and not a How-To guide. Down Under Visa clients are always free to ask us if they’re not sure of something, and should have read up already on the extensive information we’ve supplied you. If you act like you are more committed to the family back in the Philippines or to your adult children and how they will feel about you marrying again, or if you act like you are still worried if she’s a gold-digger and don’t trust her with money, then they will refuse the visa application. Partner visas are for couples who are already committed and have made a firm decision. If you are not at that stage? Get a tourist visa for now, and we can get on with a partner visa application when you are both actually ready.
Australian partner visas, tourist visas and family visas.