Proof of relationship for 136 visa

[Dedrei]

Evidence to attach to your application

If you are legally married, you must include a certified copy of your marriage certificate issued by an official registry office.

Whether you are married or in a de facto (common law) relationship, you must include evidence that your relationship is genuine and continuing and you have a commitment to a shared life together. This may include:

Evidence of the history of your relationship

Both you and your spouse should provide a statement including all of the following:

how, when and where you first met

how your relationship developed

when you decided to marry or commence your de facto (common law) relationship

your domestic arrangements, that is, how you support each other financially, physically and emotionally and when this level of commitment began

any periods of separation, when and why the separation occurred, for how long and how you maintained your relationship during the period of separation

your future plans.

Note: Your statement does not need to be made on a statutory declaration form. Your statement or statutory declaration must, however, be signed by the author.

Evidence of a genuine and continuing relationship

There are four broad categories of evidence that you need to provide.

financial aspects:

sharing of finances, household bills and expenses, such as joint bank accounts, joint ownership of real estate or other assets

the household:

your living arrangements such as joint ownership of your house or joint names on a lease, correspondence addressed to both of you at the same address, joint responsibility for children

social context:

evidence that you and your partner are generally accepted as a couple socially, such as joint invitations, evidence of common friends, assessments by your friends and family of your relationship, joint travel or joint participation in sporting, social or cultural activities

your commitment:

knowledge of each other, intention that your relationship will be long term, through things such as the terms of your wills, and correspondence and phone accounts to show that contact was maintained during any periods of separation.

I have copies of our house mortgage that we have togeter, 2 statements form our fiends, our ANZ bank account showing that we share finances, joint Rental Agreement, rates & taxes copies for the house in SA.

How much proof did you guys give for your relationship for the PR visa, not the spouse visa or proving defacto? This just seems so tedious and hubby is in real bad mood about him having to do this.

Do we really have to make a statement seperately or can we make one together and sign both?

Any ideas of what you have done and included, especially those that don't have kids yet.

Cheers

D

[Dax]

I have copies of our house mortgage that we have togeter, 2 statements form our fiends, our ANZ bank account showing that we share finances, joint Rental Agreement, rates & taxes copies for the house in SA.

How much proof did you guys give for your relationship for the PR visa, not the spouse or proving defacto? This just seems so tedious and hubby is in real bad mood about him having to do this.

Do we really have to make a statement seperately or can we make one together and sign both?

Any ideas of what you have done and included, especially those that don't have kids yet.

Cheers

D

What worked for us was to attach cerified copies of our marriage certificate onto the application, but we were still in RSA then. I imagine if you apply for the 136 while resident in Oz some more sytemic redtape is bound to float in your direction...

Cheers and sterkte,

Dax