About Jeff Harvie of Down Under Visa

CFO Seminar no longer needed for tourist visa holders

by Jeff Harvie | Sep 6, 2023 | Administration of visa applications, News

CFO News! No longer needed for tourist visas! Do you need to attend the CFO for a tourist visa? Not anymore! For those who don’t know, the CFO aka Commission for Filipinos Overseas, was set up in the 1980’s to provide guidance...

Relationship evidence for onshore partner visa applications

by Jeff Harvie | Sep 4, 2023 | Australian Spouse Visa, Australian Visa Applications, Partner Visas - Onshore

Surely that’s enough evidence for a partner visa? What else do you want? How much relationship evidence is enough for a visa application? All that you can get, and then some! No such thing as “too much”. One issue we at Down Under Visa have with Australian...

Australian visa services in the Philippines

by Jeff Harvie | Jul 17, 2023 | Australian Visa Applications

What Australian visa services are available in Philippines when you want to bring your Filipina girl to Australia on a tourist visa or even a partner visa? How can you make this process not only successful but as smooth and stress-free as possible? What services and...

Australian Visa Fees 2023 – Rise 1 July 2023

by Jeff Harvie | Jun 30, 2023 | News, Visa Fees

Australian Visa Fees 2023 – Rise 1 July 2023 Every year it happens! Every 1 July Government visa charges (Visa Application Charges) rise. Some just a few percent. Some quite a few percent. We still remember how partner visa fees nearly doubled...

Tourist visa or partner visa? A big question for Australian Filipina couples.

by Jeff Harvie | Jun 20, 2023 | Australian Visa Applications, Partner Visas - Offshore, Partner Visas - Onshore, Tourist Visas

I’ve done BLOG articles on this topic in the past, and high time I did an update. Things have changed since the last time I did one, and some of what I said before is less relevant than it used to be. But other things remain the same. There is a time for...