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Originally Posted by Dolly
Hi there,
Welcome to the forum.
Well, quite a lot of people mull over the "shall I go the 175 or sponsored route?". It all comes down to the restrictions on the sponsored visas and if you were happy with them. The 175, although would take longer to get, will give you PR straightaway and you can live and work where ever you want.
Firstly, check out the sticky at the top of the forum page "please read.......". It has a link to DIAC which then will give you all the visa categories and their requirements/obligations. Read through that and then you'll be able to decide which one will suit you.
Only one person has to apply for a visa, the partner will be a secondary applicant. The secondary applicant will not need to do a skills assessment.
Come back with more questions (believe me, you'll have them  ).
Dolly |
Hi Dolly,
Glad I don't have to get my skills assessed too. We don't actually need the extra 5 points but as I have 140 points myself due to job, qualifications and age so didn't know if it would help.
Dave is on the critical skills list though so hopefully will all be ok. We are just in the process of sorting his skills assessment now.
We were happier with the sponsored route mainly due to time and money but we are determined to get out there so we will do whatever is needed.
What we didn't know was if we had an application just sent in for 175 and then we found a company to sponsor us who could get us out quicker and we didn't have to pay for the police and medical ourselves whether we would still be able to get sponsored with an application pending. Does that make sense?
Whilst we are going through the skills assessment process at the moment we are still really trying to find a company to sponsor us!
I do have another question though. What evidence do we need to prove we have been together for longer than a year. We have been together for 4 years and lived together for 2 but we don't have a joint bank account and my name isn't on the bills, rental agreement etc as Dave rented the house for 18 months before I moved in.
All my mail goes to our house obviously, my car is registered and insured there, my bank and credit card. Anyone know what we can provide as proof. I'm guessing they don't accept 4 years of valentines, birthday, christmas and anniversary cards in a box!!??