When you think of a “visa extension”, you think of the existing visa being given a bit more time. A bit like a top-up.

Happy to say that Ruby is heading west and the weather is calming down. We never lost power or internet, and office is opening again tomorrow. Thanks everyone for their patience!

You go to see Down Under Visa to organise a visa application, and they ask you for a police clearance from every country where you lived in for 12 months or more.

Typhoon Ruby (Cyclone Hagupit) is heading our way still. As you can see it’s taken 5 days to get this far. Not in a hurry at all. From the looks of things it will still be blowy for another 48 hours.

An enquirer asked me this today. The answer is: In some ways yes, in some ways no . Partner Visas There is about 8 times as much work in a partner visa.

Dear Clients Friday (5/12/2014) afternoon here. Just letting you all know that Typhoon Ruby is on the way. Right now it’s all calm, but will get quite blowy over the weekend.

All Australian visas require that the applications pass what are known as Public Interest Criteria , which are written into Australian Migration Law.

Greetings to all clients of Down Under Visa , both old and new. A reminder that our last work day will be Friday 19 December 2014 , and we will start back on 5 January 2015 .

As I stated in an earlier BLOG post, I’ll be putting up regular posts on how long visas are taking to be granted for Down Under Visa clients.

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