Thread: Visa to Australia

Having been through both a tourist visa and tempory spouse visa at aussie embassy in jakarta ( my wife is javanese btw) my advice is to follow the forms to the letter and take lots of pics of you together.. the want evidence of your relationship, pics with the date on them of course. Good luck to you both.

Thanks Goldminer

We are at the stage where all the paperwork is finalise by the case manager and she says it has been handed over to the Australian embassy officer for confirmation. Do you know if that means it just needs the sign off of the australain officer.

Do you remember how long you had to wait after all the paperwork was completed. Two people I have spoken to said 3-4 weeks. I just want to hound them but I know I have to be patient.

hi impanema, i take it you are going for the temporary spouse/proposed spouse visa. We didnt use an agent, simply filled in all the paper work and followed it to the letter. We found all the different things they needed and handed it in and payed the fee about 10 million i think, and just waited, about 3 weeks later my wife( we were married in jkt a week before applying) had to do medical checks etc and an interview. A month later they wanted more evidence of our relationship, even we married. Hence i am saying get pics of you both together, we had lots of each other but very few together if u know what i mean. All up it took 3 months to the day for final approval. We considered this a great result . I did find out my case officers ( australian official in jkt embassy) and rang her just before getting approval and told her my wife was ready to move to perth. Maybe this helped, i dont know. Hope this is of some help..