Greetings to all Down Under Visa clients, new and old!

It’s coming up to that time of year again! Goodness me, time definitely goes faster the older you get. 2024 will soon be over and 2025 is just around the corner.

We are open all year, as you would know. We’ve missed the occasional day when typhoons have come through, but otherwise we open every working day and get on with it. If we disappeared for a week there would be panic! So many people depending on us, and this is something we take very seriously. The office opens every day, and even if I go away for a week I always take the laptop with me and no one is kept waiting.

However our tradition has always been that we take two weeks and a few days off every Christmas and New Year time because like everyone we need time to recharge. We need days where we can get up and not think about work!

This year? No exception!

Down Under Visa are taking our annual holiday break, and these are our last day and first day back!

Last day: Thursday 19 December 2024

First day back: Monday 6 January 2025

Emails and phone calls

Won’t be answered during the break

Visa grants

We will still send these out when they are received.

Lodging visa applications

All applications which can be lodged will be lodged before we finish

Jeff, Mila and Remy and the rest of the staff wish you all a Merry Christmas! No “happy holidays” from us. Old school!

And we hope you will all spend your own holiday breaks enjoying your families and remembering the non-commercial aspects of Christmas and the gift of renewal of spirits and hearts that’s there for the asking!

And may 2025 see record numbers of visa grants and more families being made!

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Jeff Harvie is a Registered Migration Agent (MARN 0959797) from Australia, but resident in Philippines since 2010 with his Filipina wife Mila and large extended family. Experienced with the Philippines culture, cross-cultural relationships and bureaucracy as well as Australian visas and Australian Migration Law, he writes with authority and fortunately with enough informality and humour that the average Aussie gets it! Down Under Visa specialises in visas for Australians in relationships with ladies and gents from Philippines, Thailand, China and Vietnam. Read MORE

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