About Jeff Harvie of Down Under Visa

Holy Week – April 2023

by Jeff Harvie | Apr 5, 2023 | News

Holy Week – 2023 Office Closure – Holy Week 2023! I think most of you who have anything to do with the Philippines knows about Holy Week? This week is Holy Week 2023. In Australia, Easter means chocolate eggs and getting killed on the...

Australian Visa Applications and Filipino Family

by Jeff Harvie | Feb 28, 2023 | Australian Visa Applications, Relationship Issues

Filipino family members can be helpful and supportive in an Australian visa application for a Filipina girl (tourist visa or partner visa application from the Philippines to Australia), or they can be a major stumbling block to your happiness. This is one of those...

Getting a Tourist visa and then starting an onshore partner visa inside Australia

by Jeff Harvie | Feb 8, 2023 | Australian Visa Applications, Partner Visas - Onshore

Tourist visa then onshore partner visa later – Can you do this? You’ve probably heard advice from the one-visa-experts on a “Visas to Australia” Facebook group, saying “Oh, just get her over on a simple tourist visa. You can marry her and lodge an onshore...

Do you qualify for an Australian visa? The Down Under Visa way

by Jeff Harvie | Jan 19, 2023 | Australian Visa Applications

How do you know if you qualify for an Australian visa? Well, firstly not everyone does qualify for an Australian visa. Just wanting the visa a whole lot won’t cut the mustard, sorry to say. As I always say, Australian visas are GRANTS and not RIGHTS. The visa...

Fast visa applications versus GOOD visa applications

by Jeff Harvie | Jan 12, 2023 | Australian Spouse Visa, Australian Visa Applications

“We want you to lodge our visa application as quickly as possible, because we want to be together!” We hear this all the time! The other one is about why this is all taking so long? We want to be together during xxxx month, because we want to go to the yyyyyy...