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Registered Relationships and De Facto Visas

by Jeff Harvie | Aug 8, 2014 | Australian Visa Applications, Partner Visas - Offshore, Partner Visas - Onshore, Practical Issues, Relationship Issues

To apply for an Australian Partner Visa based on a de facto relationship (aka “live in” relationship), you must of course BE in a de facto relationship. It is NOT a visa that allows you to form a de facto relationship. You need to be in one already. What about...

Perry Gamsby – well-known Aussie author

by Jeff Harvie | Aug 4, 2014 | Perry Gamsby, Philippines, Relationship Issues

Down Under Visa clients would have come across the name of Perry Gamsby. I’ve encouraged all of you to purchase a book (three books combined into one) about Aussie-Filipina relationships. This is the Filipina 101, 202 and 303 books. Perry wrote these whilst...

Kindness and tolerance in the Philippines

by Jeff Harvie | Jul 11, 2014 | Philippines, Relationship Issues

I promise I’ll get back to some articles about visas and the visa process shortly. But I did want to write one more about Filipino culture, as I suspect this may help many of you. I’ve been visiting the Philippines since the mid 90’s now, and I’ve...

The English language and Filipinos

by Jeff Harvie | Jul 3, 2014 | Philippines, Relationship Issues

Filipinos all learn English at school. Universities teach entirely in English. Therefore communicating with your lady and her family should be a piece of cake, right? Ummmmmm. Yes, you would think so! But there are a few issues you will come across. Firstly, it’s...

To those strong Filipina ladies

by Jeff Harvie | Jun 29, 2014 | Philippines, Relationship Issues

I was talking to somebody last night who was saying about the need for women in the developing world to get educated and to start following their dreams, etc. In many parts of the world this is very true, no doubt. But in the Philippines? No, not at all. Just because...

Cultural differences regarding “truth”

by Jeff Harvie | Jun 18, 2014 | Advice for Filipinas, Philippines, Relationship Issues

I don’t usually delve into the “relationship advice” area, however things come up with our clients sometimes and I’d like to share a bit of experience and to hopefully prevent some couples from digging deep holes for themselves that they...