About Jeff Harvie of Down Under Visa

Visa refusals from do-it-yourself attempts

by Jeff Harvie | Jan 16, 2018 | Australian Visa Applications, Practical Issues, Tourist Visas

Australian visa applications in Manila are not easy, and visa refusals are common! They are not MEANT to be easy, because if they were really easy then the Philippines would be empty at about this time next week! Would the last person to leave the Philippines please...

Australian Visas from Philippines – Down Under Visa

by Jeff Harvie | Jan 12, 2018 | News

Visa Newsletter – 12 January 2018 Happy New Year An enthusiastic Happy New Year to all of our clients, new, existing and former clients. To those newer Australian Filipina couples who find themselves entering a scary and daunting tunnel that is the process of...

Australian onshore partner visas and overstaying

by Jeff Harvie | Dec 15, 2017 | Australian Visa Applications, Partner Visas - Onshore

We do willingly and happily manage partner visa applications onshore (which is visa-speak for “inside Australia), and with the easing of Condition 8503’s (ie. No Further Stay) on tourist visa grants and with the cost now being the same, this is happening more and...

Australian visas for same-sex marriages are here

by Jeff Harvie | Dec 12, 2017 | News, Partner Visas

Australian Visas from Philippines and Same-Sex Marriages I think you would need to have been under a rock not to know that Australia has voted (in a very expensive way) and the Yes vote gained the majority. This meant that the passage of a bill that would...

Breaking news – PIC 4020 changes revoked

by Jeff Harvie | Dec 6, 2017 | Character Requirements, News

PIC 4020 10 year change – It’s been revoked The parliamentary term is “disallowed”. This was a change to the Migration Regulations done by the DIBP themselves, and it didn’t need to go through parliament. But Senators are allowed...