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A valid visa application? Is the visa application valid? I’m guessing that anybody who has lodged a visa application, or is preparing a visa application, and reads this will respond with “Yes, of...

I think most Down Under Visa clients and BLOG readers are familiar with the strict rules about false statements and bogus documents and their catastrophic effect on Australian visa applications?

(Please note this is an updating of an older post….. actually now an updating of an updating ) At Down Under Visa we get partner visa assessment forms all the time from men who clearly have good,...

Christmas 2017 is only a matter of weeks away now. I don’t know about everybody else, but I’m really looking forward to it. We’re pretty full-on here all year, and it only gets busier.

Christmas comes but once a year……..except in the Philippines, where it starts in September. Oh well! Won’t go on about the earliness of Christmas here.

WATCH THE VIDEO FOR THE ANSWER! In this week’s episode of our Weekly Q&A one participant asked Can we apply for an Australian partner visa with a registered relationship instead of marrying?

We at Down Under Visa get requests from men all the time wanting to get a tourist visa for their fiancee. The men are generally thinking one of two things: 1.

WATCH THE VIDEO FOR THE ANSWER! In this week’s episode of our Weekly Q&A one participant asked Can you sponsor a Filipina on an Australian partner visa when bankrupt?

I generally don’t get into this sort of thing, but I do get annoyed when I see clients getting stung when they trust the wrong “agent”. This is as a much a vocation to us as it is a job.

The Family Code of the Philippines states: Art. 26. All marriages solemnized outside the Philippines, in accordance with the laws in force in the country where they were solemnized, and valid there...