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Hi all, we had our interview at the aus embassy on tuesday morning, I had assumed it would be an interview for both of us, but was asked to wait outside the room for what seemed like an eternity( probably only 45mins) and then was called in for about 5mins to be told i needed more financial evidence to prove I can support my partner, Is it the normal procedure for the applicant to be interviewed by themself? and I was also suprised that the person conducting the interview was thai and not australian

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Hi all, we had our interview at the aus embassy on tuesday morning, I had assumed it would be an interview for both of us, but was asked to wait outside the room for what seemed like an eternity( probably only 45mins) and then was called in for about 5mins to be told i needed more financial evidence to prove I can support my partner, Is it the normal procedure for the applicant to be interviewed by themself? and I was also suprised that the person conducting the interview was thai and not australian

Yes. But they will still talk to you briefly for about 5 minutes. They are watching for the way that you communicate etc. They interview the applicant because it is him/her who is applying for the visa. I was in for about 5-10 minutes before and then after the interview.BTW i have been through this and i am still waiting on a reply. By next Friday it will be 2 months since our interview. So i hope you are a patient man. I'm not too stressed. But every day i return home i hope to be see a letter confirming the wifes application.

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Yes. But they will still talk to you briefly for about 5 minutes. They are watching for the way that you communicate etc. They interview the applicant because it is him/her who is applying for the visa. I was in for about 5-10 minutes before and then after the interview.BTW i have been through this and i am still waiting on a reply. By next Friday it will be 2 months since our interview. So i hope you are a patient man. I'm not too stressed. But every day i return home i hope to be see a letter confirming the wifes application.

Just browsed my way into this thread, didn't realise that you were waiting for a response on your application. Makes me feel lucky that I will only be waiting a week or two at most.

Hope it all goes well for you, and it isn' too long until you find that letter waiting on your door mat . :o

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Yes. But they will still talk to you briefly for about 5 minutes. They are watching for the way that you communicate etc. They interview the applicant because it is him/her who is applying for the visa. I was in for about 5-10 minutes before and then after the interview.BTW i have been through this and i am still waiting on a reply. By next Friday it will be 2 months since our interview. So i hope you are a patient man. I'm not too stressed. But every day i return home i hope to be see a letter confirming the wifes application.

Just browsed my way into this thread, didn't realise that you were waiting for a response on your application. Makes me feel lucky that I will only be waiting a week or two at most.

Hope it all goes well for you, and it isn' too long until you find that letter waiting on your door mat . :D

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With the Oz embassy. They say it can take up to 9 months. :o But they are only covering themselves. Usually its something like 3 months or 4.

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I was also suprised that the person conducting the interview was thai and not australian

That is very normal, it is the locals who do all the ground work etc and then put forward the case to be approved by the migration officers who are posted Australians. For Aussies to do the interviews and all the reseach etc would take a dozen or so staff, with Thai language skills, and I really don't think the Aussie tax payer would be happy about that when you can employ locals for probably 1/20th the cost of having an Aussie posted to Bangkok.

Hope it all works out for you.

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The interview is for the applicant, there is not a requirement for the sponsor to be there. If they require info from the sponsor then they will ask you to attend the office in your city.

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