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Does anyone know how my partner obtains an international driving permit for Aus?

lodged in june 2014.. So still a big wait ahead. Farang female & thai male. We have an agent & everything is lodged and was from the start, including police check and medical check.

G'day, thought I'd start a thread to see if any could contribute with dates and time from application to approval.

Submitted ours 12 March 2014 in BKK --Patiently waiting, no case officer yet has contacted us.

Looking forward to hear from others

We submitted 2 weeks ago through an agent in Australia- but submitted it online & offshore in BKK. Our agent said no one will even look at the app for 4-6 months & the total waiting time he estimates as 7 months.

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Ok,

I need to get my husband to Australia by the end of July (I'm pregnant and heading back to Oz to have the baby)

Do I have time to get a partner visa? Does anyone have experience with how long it has taken them? or should I just go for a tourist visa?

We don't intend on staying permanently (at least at this stage) but would like to stay for 6 months and would like him to be able to work in his field in order to gain international experience. (obviously he can't work if we get a tourist visa)

If we just go for a tourist visa, can we then apply for a partner visa once we get to Australia?

I know times for visa applications vary, but I need to know if I should even try for it now, or just get him there on a tourist visa, be thankful that he is with me and try for the partner visa at a later date...

Thanks, in advance

He wont be able to apply for a partner visa while on a tourist visa i australia. Best bet is a tourist or sponsored work skilled visa.

Partner visa wait times are 6-8 months offshore atm!

Goodluck!!!!

And congrats on bub

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According to the Australian immigration website, you can apply for a partner visa while in Australia as long as you have a 'substantive' visa (which a tourist visa is) and it does not have a 8503 'no further stay' condition placed on it.

It is a different visa subclass though.

A Partner visa applied for outside of Australia is a sub class 820/801

And one applied for within Australia is a sub class 309/100

As per below:

Copied from : http://www.thailand.embassy.gov.au/files/bkok/Visa_Partner%20Booklet.pdf

This booklet is designed to help you and your fiancé(e) or partner decide if you are eligible to apply for a partner category visa, for which visa you should apply, and what you need to know to lodge an application. It is a guide intended for the use for persons applying for a partner category visa from both within or outside of Australia.

If you are applying in Australia, you may not be able to make a valid application or you may not be eligible to be granted a Partner visa, if you:

do not hold a substantive visa and have had a Partner visa refused or cancelled since your last entry to Australia; or

do not hold a substantive visa (see page 6) and your previous visa has ceased; or

hold a visa with a No further stay condition (conditions 8503, 8534 or 8535); or

hold a Sponsored Visitor visa; or

hold a Criminal Justice visa; or

since your last entry to Australia, hold or held a Provisional General Skilled Migration visa and you have not held or did not hold that visa for at least 2 years;

have a debt to the Australian Government and have not made

I hope this information is correct! I have spend many many hours going through all the paperwork and I'm pretty sure he can apply in Australia, he might just have to leave and come back if his tourist visa runs out.

If someone has clarification on this it would be most appreciated!! It would be a lot easier for us to apply in Australia as we live in the arse end of no-where and work 6 days a week, so for us to get everything done in Thailand is very difficult.

To get a tourist visa that doesnt say 'no further stay' is difficult according to our agent. For a tourist visa he has to prove he will go back to thailand, not stay in Australia.

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Hi everyone, I'm trying to create a network of women in relationships with Thai men. I met my husband 10 years ago and we have been happily married for 5 years. Whilst we have many friends in cross cultural relationships it always seems to be the woman who is Thai. We have started a family and I'm looking for people in similar circumstances to share bilingual resources with, celebrate the joys and challenges of cross cultural relationships and hopefully arrange meet ups and in general to create a support network. If you or anyone you know fits the bill please look up Mama Falang on Facebook. We are living in Melbourne Australia but will be posting some great resources and interesting articles so please join our page regardless of your location. Cheers

Mama Falang

Great! We are on the visa path at the moment for aus. We'd love to meet people in similar situations! Hes thai & I'm from albury wodonga! X

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Ok,

I need to get my husband to Australia by the end of July (I'm pregnant and heading back to Oz to have the baby)

Do I have time to get a partner visa? Does anyone have experience with how long it has taken them? or should I just go for a tourist visa?

We don't intend on staying permanently (at least at this stage) but would like to stay for 6 months and would like him to be able to work in his field in order to gain international experience. (obviously he can't work if we get a tourist visa)

If we just go for a tourist visa, can we then apply for a partner visa once we get to Australia?

I know times for visa applications vary, but I need to know if I should even try for it now, or just get him there on a tourist visa, be thankful that he is with me and try for the partner visa at a later date...

Thanks, in advance

He wont be able to apply for a partner visa while on a tourist visa i australia. Best bet is a tourist or sponsored work skilled visa.

Partner visa wait times are 6-8 months offshore atm!

Goodluck!!!!

And congrats on bub

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Sorry if this is the wrong forum but I'm thinking about a working holiday visa on New Zealand

Just wanted to know if anyone can report standard of living, average wage, average rent etc...?

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Sure have. Queenstown. Av wage is terribly low, cost of living is high!!

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I must admit ... I'm a little confused by this from the OP ...

My partner of almost four years went to the Police centre this week to get the Police Clearance Check.

To be fully prepared we called them again last week and asked some questions about what is needed, how much will it cost and opening hours of the office. The usual to prevent waiting times when dealing with bureaucracy.

So off she goes with all the paperwork and the VFS letter to be told that she needs a letter stating that she is NOT married

From the DFAT website, it says ...

Police certificates

Everyone who wishes to enter Australia must be of good character. In order to determine this, the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) may ask you to provide a police certificate.

We are currently starting the Partner Visa process, I've read the checklist currently (several times) and there is nothing in there about that.

Plus, are you saying that the VFS supplied a letter requesting her to attend the Police station to get the Police Clearance check.

To my knowledge, the VFS supplies nothing like that ... indeed the Partner Visa application should be presented completely, with the Police clearance check.

The only document that is then requested is the Medical examination, which the Embassy sends the letter for.

Happy to have my understanding challenged ... I'm learning like everyone else.

Yeah VFS gives you a letter to take to police headquarters, to get the police check. Include it in ur application when you submit.

The health examination cant be done until your case officer thats assigned to your application, gives you a reference number.

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Hey Biggles ... great news that your Partner got her Visa ...

We are in the process of gathering the documents for MissFarmGirl now.

I'll be working on a 4 - 6 month turn-around time ... home for Christmas I hope!

We also hope for Christmas! Goodluck we are submitting in 2 weeks....

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Thought id also add that if you have a boy here in Thailand, with a Thai partner, they must report for military service at 21yo- even if he's out of the country.

The Rubbish tip is filling up.

There have been many threads in the General Forum that discuss this.

What if the child had done previous military service for Australia ... would the Thai government all the child to serve in their military?

Plus, if the child lives their adult life in Thailand up to the age of 30, there are other options.

If you don't find what you want with a search of the General forum ... contact a Member here named samran ... he used to be a Mod, Thai or 1/2 Thai, lives in Australia and well versed on the subject.

Hope that dispels a few myths and helps

Find out facts before you dispel mine mate.

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Across from organic restaurant? Yeah i need it authorized for aussie visa. Sounds like theres no more on the island! Taa!

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Looking for a translation service Thai-English in Koh Samui for an Aussie Visa. I had one guy for 300baht, but he cant do it till end of next week.

Anyone else?

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We have been Married for one and half years and have a one year old daughter, I lived on and off in thailand for two years before we were married, returning to the Uk to work.

About 11 months ago we moved to the uk on a spouse visa.

I have a uk passport, my wife has a thai passport and daughter has Thai and uk passport.

We are still a fairly young, I am 32 and my wife is 27.

We couldn't earn enough money to live in thailand so we have come back to the uk but I have always had a dream of living somewhere warmer and my wife isn't really liking the uk weather and it's only been one year.

We have no ties in the uk or thailand so we would like to try and make a move Downunder to australia after I worked there for one year about ten years ago. I am a qualified plumber and could get us in on a skilled trade working visa. There is no information about me a uk citizen bringing a Thai spouse.

The Only information I have seen is about Australian citizens bringing Thai spouses.

Could I bring a Thai spouse to oz not being a citizen?

Do you think we should complete the five year uk spouse visa, get uk citizenship for my wife. Then apply for move Downunder?

Any other advice or opinions about what we want to do.

Cheers Danny

Cairns is a great place to live for Thais. Huge community there, warm weather & life is similar there. Goodluck!

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So recently married, haven't yet applied for my O visa and now I'm pregnant! Not unhappy, just a lot quicker than we were planning and now I'm scared and honestly, just want my mum

I need to figure out where to have this baby. I love Thailand and it is home, but my gut tells me to have it in Australia, my heart tells me that I want my mum, my sisters , my aunts, my friends around me when it is born.

My partner and I currently live and work in a very remote location north of Chiang Rai, so finding a doctor who speaks english is going to be tough, we don't have any family network around us, mine or his. Pretty much the only thing keeping us here would be our jobs. But I am sure that my HR department here would fight tooth and nail before paying me maternity leave even though I am entitled to it, so sort of happy to say goodbye to them!

Our options as I see them are these:

1. Stay where we are until the baby is further along and then head back to Australia to have it. Stay for around three months and then come back to Thailand, but move to Chiang Mai to be close to his parents and better facilities.

Pros:

-free medicare for me and baby

-family and friends around

-the comforts of being in Australia, english speaking doctors etc

- can live with my parents for a while, meaning no accommodation costs.

Cons:

-Visa hassles for me and my partner. I would probably have to quit my job, loosing my visa and I'm not sure he could get 3 months leave either meaning he would have to quit his job which make getting an aussie visa harder.

-Cost of flights, baby, etc etc

-Having to establish ourselves in Chiang Mai when we return with a small baby.

-My partner worries about my ability to find a job once we get back to Thailand, he on the other hand will have greater job prospects if we go to Australia as I can get him some chefing experience in western restaurants there (he is a chef).

OR...

2. Move now to Chiang Mai, establish ourselves there now and find jobs etc. Hopefully build up a new network of friends. Have the baby in Chiang Mai and maybe my mum can come and stay with me for a while

Pros:

-Will be established in Chiang Mai prior to the birth of the baby.

-Will have his family around to help (although most of them only speak Garieng which I can't speak yet).

-No visa stuff to work out, I will apply for my non-O and it should all be fine.

Cons:

-Not sure of the cost of having a baby here, if I quit my job (which I would have too if we moved) I would not be covered by their insurance.

-None of my family around to help me.

-Setting up life in a new city is hard especially if your already pregnant and don't feel like doing anything because the nausea and heartburn are already making you feel like crap.

EEP!!!!

I guess what I would like most is to hear from other farang women on how they did it. Especially anyone in Chiang Mai who knows of good public (no money for private) hospitals with english speaking doctors and whether there are any support networks I can tap into.

Thanks in advance

Thought id also add that if you have a boy here in Thailand, with a Thai partner, they must report for military service at 21yo- even if he's out of the country.

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My Wife said there was a news report on channel 3 claiming that two Russian tourists hit a Koh Samui Taxi Driver, apparently over a 300 baht fare, which the Russians took exception to. Have looked today and yesterday online but have not seen anything reported in English. Anybody hear anything ?

Regards

AF

I was there holding one of the women down. Opp kc soi, just up from samui inter hosp. Is that the right one?

She was laced with drugs. Mother daughter combo.

She assaulted everyone, tried to steal a thai guys bag, so my partner & i sat on her until police came.

She's lucky we stopped, otherwise the thais would have beat her to death.

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I wouldn't be expecting high as 20k.

Just asked my wife, she says about 8 or 10,000baht, but that was about 3 years ago now in KK, and she can't really remember either, so must be a minimal kind of amount.

Prices do go up, but I doubt around 20k.

Wonder if it's cheaper up country compared to Bkk?

Ahhhhh well, it needs to be done no matter how much

We'll wait for that nice surprise at the end! I'll be writing a post on the visa process when we're done!

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My step daughter had a medical for a student visa for Oz just 3 weeks ago at AEK hospital in Udon. The cost was 3,500 baht. I dont suppose the price at the other accreditted centres will all that much different. Hope this helps.

Oh great! I cant imagine they'd be any different! Thanks millions for your reply. We thought it was 20k! X

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Can't remember exactly but it wasn't much. Under 10 grand put it that way.

Oh shit, a lot cheaper than we thought! Great thanks.

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it really might help if you said what part of Samui....

Atm its in Maenam, but soon that will change to Plai Laem. Hence why i didnt mention location.

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And how much will you be paying.That helps when the ex-pats on here will be asking there thai friends

The pay will depend on many things & will be discussed on meeting with the prospective nannies.

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it really might help if you said what part of Samui....

Atm its in Maenam, but soon that will change to Plai Laem. Hence why i didnt mention location.

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Just wondering if anyone can tell me how much the medical is for the partner visa to Aus?

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Koh samui. 2 nannies needed on a part time basis. Shifts will be 8-2pm and 2-8pm.

English is a must. Need to be reliable.

Must love to work with children- & find it fun & enjoyable lots of reading books, playing with toys.

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Koh samui. 2 nannies needed on a part time basis. Shifts will be 8-2pm and 2-8pm.

English is a must. Need to be reliable.

Must love to work with children- & find it fun & enjoyable lots of reading books, playing with toys.

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I have seen nothing that says he was in the hospital. He was found in a hotel in Phnom Penh, a city he used to live in.

When guys disappear from their families and then they are found months later in another country and claim amnesia, I am very skeptical. The far more likely explanation is that he tried to disappear for some reason and failed, and then when he got caught he claimed amnesia rather than owning up to it.

Sir Doctor, maybe keep your little nose out of it. So what if the above is true- he's been found & thats all that matters.

Goodwork Everyone. Glad to see a positive outcome.

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Are you looking for English classes or schools for your children?

primary school with English for our kids:-).we think that smaller phangan and tao are not that much overpriced and overcrowded,so maybe in the future we would like to move there....

They are much more pricey than Samui!

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