This is an important area, and one that Down Under Visa can’t monitor because most of our clients are not in touch with us anymore at this stage.
Once you have a Australian partner visa grant (partner visa, spouse visa, fiancee visa, prospective marriage visa) or even a tourist visa or child visa or any other visa type), and until you become an Australian Citizen, you still have some dealings with the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP). This is particularly so if you are still the holder of a temporary partner visa (either a Subclass 309 or a Subclass 820). The Department still need to know where you are so that they can contact you, particularly when they are assessing you for a permanent visa.
And the other issue is that Australian Visas of all types are electronically linked to your passport! They are no longer an official-looking passport sticker. Stickers are gone now, and even when they still existed they were merely stickers. A VISA is the permission to enter Australia. It isn’t a piece of paper or a sticker.
And at the airport, they will see the existence of your visa when they scan your passport and the details show up on the screen. So if you update your passport without telling them, then they won’t know who you are. You won’t get on the plane, and could miss your flight and find yourself stuck somewhere!
So, until you become an Australian Citizen with your own Australian Passport, you must inform the Department immediately if you:
- Update/change your passport
- Change your street address
How? With a Form 929!
You can download this from the Department website by clicking HERE
And you should fill it out and send to the NEAREST office of DIBP in Australia. You do not send to Manila, and definitely don’t send it to us.
See attached pics below:
Ross and Eva – Happy Down Under Visa clients
Australian Partner Visas in a De Facto Relationship
Happy Down Under Visa clients – James and Evelyn
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Down Under Visa – Australian Filipina couple John & Eva
Proper communication and getting in touch with the authorities should be kept in mind at all times especially if your documents are still on processing with the department. To avoid any visa related problems, please make sure that everything are properly documented.
How much tourist visa to australia? My bf want me to apply tourist visa for vacation..
Please go to the website and complete our free online visa assessment form, Rhojean
how much time it will take to update the new passport to the visa status
It depends on how busy they are, Rabinder. Hopefully not too long.
how long is the processing time for 929 form if you send via email? its about transfer of visa from old passport to a new passport.
I couldn’t tell you, sorry. Our clients do it themselves, and they don’t tell us. I don’t think very long though.
Is it necessary for a tourist visa holder to update the address. Do they know that you changed your address or tourist visa will be an exemption?
What if I bring my old and new passport?
I applied for changes in passport on my immi account however not sure if it will be processed on time.
Will I be able to prove that my visa is related with new passport?
I would never recommend you take that risk
I don’t change the passport but the order of name when I applied for visa was not correct. Now I just wanna update my order of name of visa. What should I do?
Contact the Department and ask them