Charlie Bell wrote:
On 11/07/2006, at 5:48 AM, David Hobby wrote:
I don't want to jinx you, but are you sure you're done? : )
We're done until the wedding. Prospective Marriage Visa has been
granted. Then we have to go back, and it gets changed to a Spouse Visa
(Temporary). Then in two years after that, you go back, and it gets
changed to a Spouse Visa (Permanent). The last is the one where they
grill you, apparently.
Charlie-- That's actually more visits than we had. My wife
was on a Tourist Visa, and we had it switched to Permanent
Resident status after we were married.
It's slightly easier being British going into Oz than most other
nationalities (Kiwis are the one that's easier, and that's cause Kiwis
have automatic residency and work rights in Australia), and certainly a
lot easier than for just about anyone to go to the States, even
Canadians (should have seen the traumas Kat went through to get her
Canadian beau into the US).
Well of course! The US is threatened by huge numbers of
potential immigrants from Less Desirable Countries (TM).
It has to do something, or everybody in the Snowy North
would move here. : )
---David
Blame Canada Maru
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