AmyClaire22 Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 Hello everybody,  I hope you are all well  I wonder if you could help me. I have tried searching online everywhere but I can't find an answer!  I am in a long-distance relationship with my boyfriend who is Australian and I am British. I have a temp visa which allows me to go over for 3 months at a time, and it lasts for a year. He is able to visit England for 6 months at a time without a visa. We want to live together permanently but for me to go to Australia long-term, I understand we have to prove that we've been living together for at least 12 months? How can we live together when we need the visa to be able to do that in the first place? Does anybody know if there's a way around this for long-distance relationships, or is marriage the only option?  Thanks so much in advance!  Amy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donnab03 Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 Hi Amy, you cod potentially come to Australia on a WHV or Student. Its an option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetBlast Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 Hi Amy, you cod potentially come to Australia on a WHV or Student. Its an option.Just incase the OP didn't know a WHV is a Working Holiday Visa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quoll Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 Can your boyfriend not come over on a 2 year Youth visa to UK or perhaps he might have some UK ancestry in his background which would allow him an Ancestry visa? You dont have to be the one to move, at least in the first instance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyClaire22 Posted March 1, 2019 Author Share Posted March 1, 2019 Thanks everybody. I will look into these options. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWayOfThePony Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 Depending on where you are in your relationship, you may want to look into the Prospective Marriage Visa (visa 300). You don't need to be living together to qualify (hence why long distance couples often go down that route), but you do need to want to get married! Once granted you have nine months to move to Australia, get married, and apply for a partner visa (at a discounted rate, mercifully - a PMV fee is around $7000, the subsequent partner visa fee is around $1300). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaggieMay24 Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 You also don't need to live together to get a de facto relationship although it's certainly one of the strongest forms of evidence regarding the strength of your relationship. If you don't live together permanently at the moment, you would need to prove that your relationship is still at the level of de facto. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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