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Do you include the children in an Australian partner visa application? Fiancee visa or spouse visa? An important issue for Australian Filipina couples where the lady is a single mother.

Australian partner visas, ie. the actual spouse visas themselves (Subclass 309 and Subclass 820), and the prospective marriage visa (fiancée visa, Subclass 300), require by law that the applicant and...

Let me state something upfront. Down Under Visa are not a “visa shop” . We are not the place to go, wave your cash, and say “One visa please!” That might work at the local Philippines travel agent...

Being an RMA ( Registered Migration Agent ) is sometimes not the easiest of professions to be in.

The Filipina visa applicant is employed, and circumstances with a visa application means that maybe she needs to leave her job , possibly earlier than she had planned to.

We’ve had Down Under Visa BLOG articles on this topic before, but it never hurts to have a refresher.

Here at Down Under Visa we have learned to be cautious in our daily migration agency practice. Very cautious indeed, because mistakes in Australian visa applications cost big time.

Tourist visa processing times out of Australian Embassy Manila seem to be a bit varied lately. “Varied” is a polite way of wording it. We’ve had some take 2 weeks, and we’ve had some take 6 weeks.

I hope I didn’t panic too many people by talking about visa refusals in the last post. I try to remember that our clients are worried, and obviously more worried than we are.

Down Under Visa are Registered Migration Agents. The Migration Agents Registration Authority (MARA) is run by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection , and we operate by Law under a C ode...