Thai Dependant To An American's Australian Student Visa?

[RY12]

I'm a US citizen, will be be married to a Thai under Thai law- she has never been to the US. I can study in Australia next year at the graduate level, which apparently puts me at the "assessment level 1" for my student visa. How difficult will it be for my wife to get a 'dependant visa' from the Oz Embassy in BKK? Form 919 apparently only requires that I show I have enough funds to support us in Oz and that I have the marriage certificate- is it that easy? Seems like there's always a catch somewhere....

[jstumbo]

I admire your tenacity. I wish you the best of luck with this. I am sure you will find a solution that works for you.

I can't remember, did you rule out studying in Canada and your wife being able to get a visa to join you there?

Edited March 21, 2008 by jstumbo

[the scouser]

I, too, admire your tenacity.

If I recall correctly, there are two hundred-and-odd countries in the world, and I'm sure you'll be able to meet up with your missus in a least one of 'em.

I hear Burkina Faso is quite nice this time of year.

Scouse.

[david96]

I'm a US citizen, will be be married to a Thai under Thai law- she has never been to the US. I can study in Australia next year at the graduate level, which apparently puts me at the "assessment level 1" for my student visa. How difficult will it be for my wife to get a 'dependant visa' from the Oz Embassy in BKK? Form 919 apparently only requires that I show I have enough funds to support us in Oz and that I have the marriage certificate- is it that easy? Seems like there's always a catch somewhere....

This DIAC website will give you some useful information.

http://www.immi.gov.au/students/visa-conditions.htm

Australian tertiary institutions generally cater for Australian and Pacific Island students and foreign students from Asia, have you considered your own country first? The US of A.

[jstumbo]

Unfortunately for him it is not really an option to get her a visa for the US. He is a student and would not be able to financially qualify to get his wife a visa to live in the US and since she is in Thailand and he is a student in the US, she is unlikely to be able to prove that she would return to Thailand if she got a tourist visa.

So he is looking for a country where he can go study for a semester, and where she can get a visa to come because she is his wife. Thailand is not really an option, because of his study abroad program only works for certain countries (first world).

[RY12]

There's nothing tenacious about my efforts, what's tenacious is my girl who works to exhaustion everyday to support what little family she has left, and who has the jai yen to only see me twice a year. but that doesn't make a difference to the embassies, so what's the point of talking about it. BTW, an Australian 'dependent-of-student-visa' is apparently easy to get if the husband is from the first-world ('assessment level 1')- i called the embassy several times and they said there probably wouldn't be any problems if i proved money for the trip, marriage certificate, and med. examination (some other easy stuff too, no employment record $hit). I'd be able to do the application for both of us online, and the only contact she'd have to have with the godforsaken Oz BKK embassy would be to submit her med. tests.... as far as I could tell. But fortunate for me no Australian semesters opened up, so this plan is down the toilet.

I guess I'll just have to arrange frequent trips to BKK for the next few years until I can satisfy the financial requirements of the fiance visas. This is profoundly depressing and financially troubling. If it wasn't for these <deleted> pushy, immoral, greedy savages from india or pakistan or China or whatever, and these stoneage peasants coming up from mesoamerica, all of them trying to cheat their way into the US and UK, I and my girl wouldn't be in this position. thaivisa wouldn't exist, all you guys with real relationships would get whatever visa u needed. Such is life though yeah, ...i'll keep looking, and keep posting if the need arise. thanks for ur replies.

Edited March 24, 2008 by RY12

[jstumbo]

Sorry to hear that the one that looks the most promising is turning out to not work for you. Maybe next semester something will open up and you can do it later.

Good luck.