Dual Visa Application

[HowardB]

Does anyone know if it is posible to apply for dual visa. I suppose my question is in 2 parts.

1: If a 12 month holiday visa has been granted to Australia, can the person marry while in Aus, and

2: Assuming marriage is permissable can we go back to Thailand while the 12 month visa is current and apply for a spouse visa?

[dr_Pat_Pong]

Does anyone know if it is posible to apply for dual visa. I suppose my question is in 2 parts.

1: If a 12 month holiday visa has been granted to Australia, can the person marry while in Aus, and

2: Assuming marriage is permissable can we go back to Thailand while the 12 month visa is current and apply for a spouse visa?

A bit more information is needed. Are you planning on marrying a Thai ? What is your nationality ?

[david96]

Does anyone know if it is posible to apply for dual visa. I suppose my question is in 2 parts.

1: If a 12 month holiday visa has been granted to Australia, can the person marry while in Aus, and

2: Assuming marriage is permissable can we go back to Thailand while the 12 month visa is current and apply for a spouse visa?

Provided your TGF is granted a tourist visa 675 you can be married in Australia, but if you wish to apply for a spouse visa for your new wife she will have to return to Thailand and apply there. Whether the Australian Embassy will grant a 12 month multiple entry 675 visa will depend on your application in the first instance.

It might be better for your TGF to get married in Thailand, apply for a tourist visa, then return and apply for a spouse visa in Bangkok.

This is presuming you are an Australian citizen or permanent resident.

[HowardB]

My apologies for the lack of information

Yes i am an Australian resident and my gf is Thai

I suppose the purpose of my thinking is that i just want her here as quickly as possible and would rather she didn't have to go back other than to apply for a spouse visa

Maybe i've got my head in the clouds but it's worth pursueing.

[gburns57au]

Does anyone know if it is posible to apply for dual visa. I suppose my question is in 2 parts.

1: If a 12 month holiday visa has been granted to Australia, can the person marry while in Aus, and

2: Assuming marriage is permissable can we go back to Thailand while the 12 month visa is current and apply for a spouse visa?

The answers to both your questions is YES....

Be aware....that if she applies in Thailand for the spouse visa and returns here for a holiday, it could delay the spouse visa process for the time she is not in Thailand...Also be aware that she must be in the country where the spouse visa was lodged before it will be granted. So if it was lodged in Thailand then she must be in Thailand to receive the grant of the visa.

I have done all of this recently....we were married here on the last 3 month stay of her ME visa, she returned to Thailand and applied there about a month after returning, we had a few hiccups which were sorted but it cost us some time delays.

If you intend to marry on the first trip of her ME visa....be aware of the point I mentioned above....the police and medical clearances have a valid life of 12 months after which they must be obtained again.

If you plan on trying to apply at the beginning of the ME visa then bringing her here extensively during the life of the visa, the absence from country delays could mean that you will have to re-apply, not only for the police and medical but also the entire spouse visa application.

A new thing that has been brought to my notice is that if the applicant spends a substantial time here, and spends more than 12 months accumulative in Oz prior to applying, then an Oz AFP clearance will more than likely be needed.

Edited December 30, 2007 by gburns57au

[gburns57au]

Does anyone know if it is posible to apply for dual visa. I suppose my question is in 2 parts.

1: If a 12 month holiday visa has been granted to Australia, can the person marry while in Aus, and

2: Assuming marriage is permissable can we go back to Thailand while the 12 month visa is current and apply for a spouse visa?

Provided your TGF is granted a tourist visa 675 you can be married in Australia, but if you wish to apply for a spouse visa for your new wife she will have to return to Thailand and apply there. Whether the Australian Embassy will grant a 12 month multiple entry 675 visa will depend on your application in the first instance.

It might be better for your TGF to get married in Thailand, apply for a tourist visa, then return and apply for a spouse visa in Bangkok.

This is presuming you are an Australian citizen or permanent resident.

Its a 676 visa David, The 675 visa relates to a medical yisa.

If he chooses to marry in Thailand then he can apply for the spouse visa after the marriage...he doesnt need to apply for a tourist visa first. However that was not his question.

She doesnt have to return to Thailand after a marriage here...a bridging visa can be applied for after the spouse application has been applied for in Oz, but it has some restrictions and drawbacks.

[david96]

Does anyone know if it is posible to apply for dual visa. I suppose my question is in 2 parts.

1: If a 12 month holiday visa has been granted to Australia, can the person marry while in Aus, and

2: Assuming marriage is permissable can we go back to Thailand while the 12 month visa is current and apply for a spouse visa?

Provided your TGF is granted a tourist visa 675 you can be married in Australia, but if you wish to apply for a spouse visa for your new wife she will have to return to Thailand and apply there. Whether the Australian Embassy will grant a 12 month multiple entry 675 visa will depend on your application in the first instance.

It might be better for your TGF to get married in Thailand, apply for a tourist visa, then return and apply for a spouse visa in Bangkok.

This is presuming you are an Australian citizen or permanent resident.

Its a 676 visa David, The 675 visa relates to a medical yisa.

If he chooses to marry in Thailand then he can apply for the spouse visa after the marriage...he doesnt need to apply for a tourist visa first. However that was not his question.

She doesnt have to return to Thailand after a marriage here...a bridging visa can be applied for after the spouse application has been applied for in Oz, but it has some restrictions and drawbacks.

Quite correct graham it was a typing error. One could imagine the problems that could occur if the temp spouse visa application was refused if a "bridging visa" was granted to a tourist visa 676. This is why DIAC want applicants to apply offshore. Bridging visas are usually issued to refugees and persons who have overstayed in Australia to enable their appeals to be heard by bodies such as the MRT.

She could get a financee "prospective marriage" visa 300 in Bangkok and then apply for the temp. spouse visa after marriage, that might be better as she would not have to leave Australia.

[gburns57au]

Quite correct graham it was a typing error. One could imagine the problems that could occur if the temp spouse visa application was refused if a "bridging visa" was granted to a tourist visa 676. This is why DIAC want applicants to apply offshore. Bridging visas are usually issued to refugees and persons who have overstayed in Australia to enable their appeals to be heard by bodies such as the MRT.

She could get a financee "prospective marriage" visa 300 in Bangkok and then apply for the temp. spouse visa after marriage, that might be better as she would not have to leave Australia.

In that case, they would give her a leave by date....it would be along the lines of " your application for a Temp Resident visa has beem refused. You are required to leave Oz by such and such a date" or words to that effect.

Bridging visas can be used while an application for a temp resident visa is in process....usually for the prospective spouse visa running over the date.

[david96]

Quite correct graham it was a typing error. One could imagine the problems that could occur if the temp spouse visa application was refused if a "bridging visa" was granted to a tourist visa 676. This is why DIAC want applicants to apply offshore. Bridging visas are usually issued to refugees and persons who have overstayed in Australia to enable their appeals to be heard by bodies such as the MRT.

She could get a financee "prospective marriage" visa 300 in Bangkok and then apply for the temp. spouse visa after marriage, that might be better as she would not have to leave Australia.

In that case, they would give her a leave by date....it would be along the lines of " your application for a Temp Resident visa has beem refused. You are required to leave Oz by such and such a date" or words to that effect.

Bridging visas can be used while an application for a temp resident visa is in process....usually for the prospective spouse visa running over the date.

And here would be a case that could be taken to the Migration Review Tribunal and she would be permitted to stay while the application is being reviewed. That is if the visa application was refused

[david96]

Quite correct graham it was a typing error. One could imagine the problems that could occur if the temp spouse visa application was refused if a "bridging visa" was granted to a tourist visa 676. This is why DIAC want applicants to apply offshore. Bridging visas are usually issued to refugees and persons who have overstayed in Australia to enable their appeals to be heard by bodies such as the MRT.

She could get a financee "prospective marriage" visa 300 in Bangkok and then apply for the temp. spouse visa after marriage, that might be better as she would not have to leave Australia.

In that case, they would give her a leave by date....it would be along the lines of " your application for a Temp Resident visa has beem refused. You are required to leave Oz by such and such a date" or words to that effect.

Bridging visas can be used while an application for a temp resident visa is in process....usually for the prospective spouse visa running over the date.

Here is some information on bridging visas

http://www.immi.gov.au/allforms/pdf/1024i.pdf

It could be possible to apply for a spouse visa in Australia after marriage on a 676 visa but very much on a case by case basis. Would get advice from DIAC to make sure and they may ask why you wish to go this route.

You really have to look at the options and see if you can meet the criteria before you apply could save a lot of problems later.

[gburns57au]

HowardB

Read this thread also as a lot of it pertains to your situation and it may expand your options.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=161098

Graham

[CbrLad]

Quite correct graham it was a typing error. One could imagine the problems that could occur if the temp spouse visa application was refused if a "bridging visa" was granted to a tourist visa 676. This is why DIAC want applicants to apply offshore. Bridging visas are usually issued to refugees and persons who have overstayed in Australia to enable their appeals to be heard by bodies such as the MRT.

She could get a financee "prospective marriage" visa 300 in Bangkok and then apply for the temp. spouse visa after marriage, that might be better as she would not have to leave Australia.

In that case, they would give her a leave by date....it would be along the lines of " your application for a Temp Resident visa has beem refused. You are required to leave Oz by such and such a date" or words to that effect.

Bridging visas can be used while an application for a temp resident visa is in process....usually for the prospective spouse visa running over the date.

Here is some information on bridging visas

http://www.immi.gov.au/allforms/pdf/1024i.pdf

It could be possible to apply for a spouse visa in Australia after marriage on a 676 visa but very much on a case by case basis. Would get advice from DIAC to make sure and they may ask why you wish to go this route.

You really have to look at the options and see if you can meet the criteria before you apply could save a lot of problems later.

Interesting debate, but it doesn't apply to what the original poster was asking. He made it clear they would apply for the spouse visa having returned from Aus being married. In which case the answer is a clear yes. What you couldn't do is have applications in for two visa's at once, but nothing stopping someone applying for a different visa, such as a spouse visa when they still have a valid tourist visa in their passport.

This is more or less what my soon to be wife will be doing. She has her 12 month ME tourist visa, we marry in Aus next month, and then sometime later in the year she will apply for the Aussie spouse visa.