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Culture shock something that will always come up for Australian Filipina couples, sometimes mildly and in other cases dramatically.

I had a former prospective marriage visa client email me the other day who is happily settled in Australia with his wife (now with her partner visa), and he continues to be an avid BLOG reader.

Once again we’re delighted to share another really nice video of another of our successful clients telling her story of how she got her Australian partner visa from Manila Philippines with the...

This is specifically meant for those who are waiting on Australian tourist visa grants.

“I think I’ll move to the Philippines!” We at Down Under Visa hear that from our clients all the time. We hear it a lot more lately.

Note that this is for partner visa clients only, or for those occasional tourist visa applicants where they ask for a chest xray (ie. older applicants and those requesting a 6 month visa).

Please watch our new promotional video. All animated, and all done here in the Philippines. You can even see Cartoon Jeff and Cartoon Mila!

I think we all know about the Australian visa application charge increases for offshore partner visas on 1 July 2015 , don’t we?

Doing a bit of anonymous research here on the cost of having an overseas relationship. I had a fair idea what it cost me in the past when I was still trying to find the girl of my dreams.

Australia has a strict and inflexible set of laws pertaining to issues of immigration. These are encased in the Migration Act (1958) and the Migration Regulations (1994).