I think hiring an agent is a good thing. Hopefully, your agent will help with the appeal. Because we applied for spouse visa from Singapore and my husband had to come back to Melbourne for work, we weren't living together for 6 months after we got married so we didn't have bills to submit for the spouse visa application. We did, however have really lovely 888s and all the other evidences required thankfully. What we did when I moved over finally after my spouse visa got approved was to make sure we have joint bank accounts and joint names for bills because I know by then that we needed bills as evidence of living together for when I applied for my PR. Have you changed your bills to both your names now?
Thanks. That horrible year of being jobless was in Perth, where we lived for a year. My husband is originally from there (but have been living in Melbourne for many years) and we moved there to see if I like living there and to be closer to my in-laws and Singapore. Unfortunately, I preferred Melbourne, although Perth will always have a special place in my heart, having first met my husband there, having conceived my son there and because my in-laws are there. So we moved back to Melbourne and it is home now.
I suppose I am just lucky because I have a few friends here who work with asylum seekers and the hundreds I have met have been such wonderful people who I believe will make great Australians. I understand how you can get discouraged about the refugees because I get discouraged too about the skilled migrants and foreign students here, which is why I mentioned they "stick to themselves and not much else". I haven't even met one who want to or made an effort to assimilate, and I definitely don't consider their fake Australian accent as an attempt. They only have bad things to say about the country and its people and just stick to themselves. The skilled migrants incessantly complain about the high tax they pay and think there are indispensable just because they contribute economically. I get discouraged because they are a poor reflection of migrants and I don't like to be placed in the same category as them. I readily admit that I am being subjective with regards to this matter. At the same time, I understand and acknowledge that even though every skilled migrants and foreign students I have met are like that, it doesn't mean that they are all like that and I look forward to the day when I met one who is not using this country just to get out of their country and stop being such whingers who don't want to assimilate. It is just unfortunate that the 48 I have met are like that. Yes, I counted them, that's how discouraged I am by them. :)
Hope your arm feels better soon. I have a dodgy wrist too and it is annoying.
Thanks. That horrible year of being jobless was in Perth, where we lived for a year. My husband is originally from there (but have been living in Melbourne for many years) and we moved there to see if I like living there and to be closer to my in-laws and Singapore. Unfortunately, I preferred Melbourne, although Perth will always have a special place in my heart, having first met my husband there, having conceived my son there and because my in-laws are there. So we moved back to Melbourne and it is home now.
I suppose I am just lucky because I have a few friends here who work with asylum seekers and the hundreds I have met have been such wonderful people who I believe will make great Australians.
I understand how you can get discouraged about the refugees because I get discouraged too about the skilled migrants and foreign students here, which is why I mentioned they "stick to themselves and not much else". I haven't even met one who want to or made an effort to assimilate, and I definitely don't consider their fake Australian accent as an attempt. They only have bad things to say about the country and its people and just stick to themselves. The skilled migrants incessantly complain about the high tax they pay and think there are indispensable just because they contribute economically. I get discouraged because they are a poor reflection of migrants and I don't like to be placed in the same category as them. I readily admit that I am being subjective with regards to this matter. At the same time, I understand and acknowledge that even though every skilled migrants and foreign students I have met are like that, it doesn't mean that they are all like that and I look forward to the day when I met one who is not using this country just to get out of their country and stop being such whingers who don't want to assimilate. It is just unfortunate that the 48 I have met are like that. Yes, I counted them, that's how discouraged I am by them. :)
Hope your arm feels better soon. I have a dodgy wrist too and it is annoying.
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