Need Help When to apply for partner visa (309/100)
I got my PR-190 last year in July, and I entered into Australia on 19 of March-2015 just few days before to the deadline of arrival (21 March-2015). Now I am here in Sydney since few days
The moment I applied for 190 visa, I hadn’t included my family due to financial constraint, although I am married person and have two kids. After arriving here in Australia, it seems that I can’t stay longer without my family. So very soon I wanted to apply for partner visa (300/100) and sponsor my family.
I have gone through guidelines and procedure to apply, where the condition of “Usual Resident” for Sponsor made me confused. Therefore I visited to consultant to get clarification besides telling him the date of my arrival. He said “You can apply now for partner visa showing your compassionate relations with your family on the separate sheet, however to be usual resident you needs to stay at-least one year in Australia”
To double check the same, I went to office of Diac here in Sydney, querying the same question about “Usual Resident” and “am I eligible to apply for Sponsorship for my family? Their replied as
“To be Usual Resident requires to stay in Australia for two years, however if one has job or started his business, in others words well settled, he is a usual resident. But in your case since you arrived here just few days before, yet not settled down therefore a condition of usual resident applies.”
Then I said, getting a job certainly will take time or will I wait for two years to apply for family, because I have kids and wife very attached to me and I am very passionate about my family, then they said
“You may apply for partner visa showing your compelling reasoning, but I will not comment on the successfulness of application, all this has to decide the “Case Officer” or “Assessor” of your application.”
Now I need final voice either to put on stake the huge amount of fee around Aus $ 7000/- and take a risk to apply or to wait for time till the job is acquired. If there is any similar test case who has got visa please let me know to decide please.