Hi Mira,
My name is johanna, I am french and in Australia with a 2nd Work and Holiday visa (which expires 09 march 2008).
I am with my boy friend, who is australian, since 1 year and 4 months, and we really want me to stay in australia, so he have to apply for a de facto visa.
We consider that we have been in a real de facto relationship since more than a year as we left his home town and been traveling together for 8months, and then been leaving together since we came back.
De thing is, as we have been on the road for 8months we only have our pay slips that prove that we have been working in the same stations (he is a sheep shearer and I am a wool handler) and a lettre (that we need to ask) from our previous employer (shearing contractor) that will say that he employed us as a couple.
We have also banks account statements that shows that we have been at the same place at the same moment and that we paid for tickets (like museum for exemple), fioul, hotels ect… for each others. And we started to really prepared that visa few months ago so we opened a joint account only then (which is very handy by the way).
We don’t have any electricity bills or what ever bills in our name either as we haven’t worried about that visa and we have been on the road and when we came back to his home town last april we moved in to his parents house.
We do not have lots of phone calls or what ever communication proofs as we haven’t spent more than 8h a day without each others since we are seeing each others.
I am really worried that won’t be enough at all for the immigration services.
What would your advice because i really want to stay with him!!!
thanks a lot
johanna
