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Police Clearances for Australian Visa Applications

by Jeff Harvie | Dec 8, 2014 | Australian Visa Applications, Character Requirements, Fiance Visas, Partner Visas - Onshore

You go to see Down Under Visa to organise a visa application, and they ask you for a police clearance from every country where you lived in for 12 months or more. It shows if they have a criminal record. Why do you need this, and can you avoid it? Australian Visas are...

Bar Girls in the Philippines and visas

by Jeff Harvie | Oct 9, 2014 | Australian Visa Applications, Character Requirements, Fiance Visas, Partner Visas - Onshore, Relationship Issues, Tourist Visas

Meet your Filipina lady in a bar? Maybe in Angeles City or Olongapo? Or one of the bars in Ermita, or P. Burgos St in Makati or elsewhere? And she was a bar girl or GRO (Guest Relations Officer)? Is this going to be a problem with the Australian Embassy and the...

Mistakes in your visa application documents? The wrong way!

by Jeff Harvie | Sep 24, 2014 | Administration of visa applications, Australian Visa Applications, Character Requirements, Child Visas, Fiance Visas, Partner Visas - Onshore, Tourist Visas

At Down Under Visa we take mistakes in documents very seriously. We have to! Our job is to manage your Australian visa application, and to see you get a visa grant and be on your way to Australia. Mistakes in documents can lead to serious delays, or worse! If the Case...

False documents in the Philippines – How it usually works

by Jeff Harvie | Jun 11, 2014 | Administration of visa applications, Australian Visa Applications, Character Requirements

I think you’ve all read my few articles on the Down Under Visa BLOG Page about the risks in making false statements and submitting bogus documents (PIC 4020). Any logical person knows that this is fraud, and especially knows that Australian Government Departments take...

Fake documents = Migration Suicide!

by Jeff Harvie | Apr 27, 2014 | Administration of visa applications, Australian Visa Applications, Character Requirements

I’m going to tell you something about several incidents that happened with Down Under Visa clients lately. These are actual incidents that happened in the last week. We protect client confidentiality very closely, however I will explain these incidents without...

Mistakes in documents in the Philippines (English)

by Jeff Harvie | Apr 27, 2014 | Administration of visa applications, Advice for Filipinas, Character Requirements

We have clients with this problem all the time at Down Under Visa. In the Philippines they have a different attitude towards being accurate. Not like in Australia where everything has to be perfect. No one cares too much if the dates are right or if the spelling is...