Partner Visa Temporary And Permanent Visa Checklist (Page 3 of 4) in pdf

Valid original police clearance certificates from each country in which you have lived

in for more than 12 months or more (cumulatively) in the last 10 years.

See:

AFP National Police Checks:

Sponsor Eligibility:

Character Requirements Penal Clearance Certificates :

5. Details of your current professional activity. For example: employment, education or

other activities. Please provide supporting documents of these activities.

6. Individual Tax Return Forms for the past 3 years. For example: Notice of Assessment

for Income Tax.

7. If applicable:

A statement from you regarding any previous partner visa application where you

were the sponsor or the visa applicant. You should provide the names of the parties

involved, dates of the relationships, why the relationship ended, and reasons why a

further sponsorship approval should be considered.

Supporting documents specific to the relationship

1. Written statements from applicant and sponsor regarding history of the relationship.

For example: how, when and where your first meeting took place and how the

relationship developed.

2. Evidence of the marriage central ceremony. For example: photos, DVDs, invitation

cards, receipts.

Note: photos should be printed and labeled with a description of the photograph and

names of the people who appear in them.

3. Evidence of marriage-related events. For example: photos of engagement ceremony,

cultural marriage rituals, wedding reception, honeymoon.

4. Evidence of ongoing contact over the period of your relationship. For example:

emails, phone calls, letters, chat history, video conferencing. Please limit evidence to

a total maximum of 50 pages.

5. Evidence that you and your partner are socially accepted as a couple. For example,

joint invitations, joint activities, friends and acquaintances in common.

6. Evidence of the financial aspect of your relationship:

• evidence of any joint ownership of real estate or other major assets (for example, cars,

appliances) and any joint liabilities (for example, loans, insurance);

• sharing of finances;

• legal commitments that you and your partner have undertaken as a couple;

• evidence that you and your partner have operated joint bank accounts for a reasonable

period of time;

• sharing of household bills and expenses; or

• the terms of your wills.

7. Evidence of cohabitation as a couple:

• a statement outlining your living arrangements;

• joint ownership or joint rental of the residence in which you live;

• joint utilities accounts (electricity, gas, telephone);

• joint responsibility for bills for day-to-day living expenses;

• joint responsibility for children;

• correspondence addressed to both you and your partner at the same address; or

• evidence of any joint travel (travel itineraries, booking vouchers, receipts.

SEPTEMBER 2012

PARTNER VISA (SUBCLASS 309/100)

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