Moving Back to Australia with Thai wife/child within 4 Months

[Geoff plus 2]

Currently going though the spouse visa process with my Thai wife. Basic details are: together 3 years (full time) married 9 months and have a 6 month daughter. Our baby girl already has received Australian citizenship via descent, and a Australia passport as well as a Thai passport.

Application lodged first week of July, within days we received via email paperwork/instructions for my wife's medical, now completed. After a few weeks we made inquiries to the embassy re progress of the application and were told all such applications are strictly processed in the order they are received and as such we now have wait till ours makes it way up to the top of the pile to be processed further. So far we have not received any further contact.

Also my wife received advice from a Thai forum (Ladyinter I think) that if she travelled to Australia on a tourist visa while her spouse visa is being processed, her spouse visa application would be suspended whilst she is in Australia and processing would only recomence once she returned to Thailand and notified the embasy of her return. I have no idea how correct this is, but if your thinking of using a tourist visa to get your wife to Australia while her spouse visa is being processed you may want to make further inquiries.

Lots of advice available on the internet on what you need to submit for a decision ready application.

Good luck with your application and big move, I'll update here again when our application progresses further so you have good idea of current processing times.

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My wife received her visa grant notice via email yesterday.

Application was lodged on the 9th july 2013.

Good luck with your move and visa application.

Geoff

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[djhartmann]

Currently going though the spouse visa process with my Thai wife. Basic details are: together 3 years (full time) married 9 months and have a 6 month daughter. Our baby girl already has received Australian citizenship via descent, and a Australia passport as well as a Thai passport.

Application lodged first week of July, within days we received via email paperwork/instructions for my wife's medical, now completed. After a few weeks we made inquiries to the embassy re progress of the application and were told all such applications are strictly processed in the order they are received and as such we now have wait till ours makes it way up to the top of the pile to be processed further. So far we have not received any further contact.

Also my wife received advice from a Thai forum (Ladyinter I think) that if she travelled to Australia on a tourist visa while her spouse visa is being processed, her spouse visa application would be suspended whilst she is in Australia and processing would only recomence once she returned to Thailand and notified the embasy of her return. I have no idea how correct this is, but if your thinking of using a tourist visa to get your wife to Australia while her spouse visa is being processed you may want to make further inquiries.

Lots of advice available on the internet on what you need to submit for a decision ready application.

Good luck with your application and big move, I'll update here again when our application progresses further so you have good idea of current processing times.

Sent from my GT-P3110 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app

My wife received her visa grant notice via email yesterday.

Application was lodged on the 9th july 2013.

Good luck with your move and visa application.

Geoff

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Thanks Geoff,

That sounds like exactly 16 weeks, like they stated in the preliminary email that we received notifying us of the health check.

We submitted our partner application, with all documents and the 97,400 baht fee to VFS on 17 October 2013.

Within one week we received the email from Immigration stating they'd received a complete application and notifying us of the health check requirements.

Within this email it stated that we'd have to wait approximately 16 weeks, which in our case should be around early February.

I really hope it gets done sooner!

Thanks for the update!

[nightwatch]

Currently going though the spouse visa process with my Thai wife. Basic details are: together 3 years (full time) married 9 months and have a 6 month daughter. Our baby girl already has received Australian citizenship via descent, and a Australia passport as well as a Thai passport.

Application lodged first week of July, within days we received via email paperwork/instructions for my wife's medical, now completed. After a few weeks we made inquiries to the embassy re progress of the application and were told all such applications are strictly processed in the order they are received and as such we now have wait till ours makes it way up to the top of the pile to be processed further. So far we have not received any further contact.

Also my wife received advice from a Thai forum (Ladyinter I think) that if she travelled to Australia on a tourist visa while her spouse visa is being processed, her spouse visa application would be suspended whilst she is in Australia and processing would only recomence once she returned to Thailand and notified the embasy of her return. I have no idea how correct this is, but if your thinking of using a tourist visa to get your wife to Australia while her spouse visa is being processed you may want to make further inquiries.

Lots of advice available on the internet on what you need to submit for a decision ready application.

Good luck with your application and big move, I'll update here again when our application progresses further so you have good idea of current processing times.

Sent from my GT-P3110 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app

My wife received her visa grant notice via email yesterday.

Application was lodged on the 9th july 2013.

Good luck with your move and visa application.

Geoff

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Good luck to u and your wife in Aus.Geoff

Its good to hear the partner visa process is still going through in timely period for a well presented application.

My wife had her visa approved a year ago now and it was roughly the same time period as your wifes.

[djhartmann]

Does anyone know when we should expect to be invited for an interview?

Does the interview normally take place at the Embassy? We read that in some cases a phone interview will be enough.

Some information on this would be appreciated.

Thanks!

[nightwatch]

Does anyone know when we should expect to be invited for an interview?

Does the interview normally take place at the Embassy? We read that in some cases a phone interview will be enough.

Some information on this would be appreciated.

Thanks!

They might not even want to do an interwiew if your application is strong.

When my wife applied for her spousal visa D.I.A.C. never wanted or asked her to do one.

i think if all your paperwork is in order and u have proved your relationship is genuine with out any doubt you wont have to attend an interview.

[Geoff plus 2]

Does anyone know when we should expect to be invited for an interview?

Does the interview normally take place at the Embassy? We read that in some cases a phone interview will be enough.

 

Some information on this would be appreciated.

 

Thanks!

They might not even want to do an  interwiew if your application is strong.

 

When my wife applied for her spousal visa D.I.A.C. never wanted or asked her to do one.

i think if all your paperwork is in order and u have proved your relationship is genuine with out any doubt you wont have to attend an interview.

Same for my wife's application, the only contact we received from the department after the initial health checks was to advise the visa had been granted.

Strength of case and having it backed up with documentation would be the deciding factor in the need for interviews etc I would think.

Sometimes no news is good news. Doesn't make the waiting any easier though.

Geoff

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[wprime]

If you don't want to be apart from your partner, apply for a tourist visa, if she doesn't get the 8503, go to Australia with her and apply for the partner visa there. It'll cost more though.