Australian fiance needs insight - help please!

Hi Everybody!

I'm brand new to this forum and really hope some people can shed some light on our situation.

Here's a bit of background.

I'm an Aussie living in Sydney and my fiance is a Pom living in the UK.

Now! We became engaged in April, when he came out for three months on a visitor visa. Now, because it's a visitor visa, he cannot stay any longer than three months at one time.

During that first three months, we fell pregnant and are expecting our first child together in February.

My fiance left in July and came back late August for another three months, and left two weeks ago to sort out his divorce in the UK. As much as it would have been great for me to have gone back with him for the two or so months he's there for, I can't travel because I'm 31 weeks pregnant.

Now! We're both in the divorce process with our respective exes. My divorce should be finalised around May next year and his should be finalised soon as well -all going to plan.

Ideally, my fiance would like me to live with him in the UK. That's totally great by me, but I have some really important questions.

1. What if there is a delay with the divorces? Do we have no leg to stand on so to speak if our divorces are still in the process of being finalised OR will this be taken into consideration? We basically want to be together in the UK with our baby. Separation is horrible!

2. What about the fact that we have a child? This child will be British/Australian - dual nationality - because I'm an Australian national and my fiance is a British national. Is this fact taken into consideration at all?

3. How do people stay together in the same country legally in the event that they cannot be given a spouse or fiance visa? Do they just have to keep travelling the world together until such time they can get the visas they need to settle down in the same country together?

4. Have any people actually had to keep travelling the world together to avoid separation, so they can be together legally without breaking any visa rules?

5. What visa could I apply for and how much would it cost?

If you could shed some light on this, that would be so great! All of this is new to us, so any insight would be so appreciated.

Thanks in advance and I hope to hear from you soon!

Cheers,
Amelia Jane

Ange, before delving into that list of questions, can you say :-

• when the two divorces are finalised, where do the two of you intend to get married? Australia? The UK? Elsewhere?
• In order to get either a fiancée visa or a spouse visa (depending upon where the marriage is to be) your fiancé/husband will need to show that he has accommodation available that is "suitable" and certainly not overcrowded, and also that the finances show that you will not need to claim certain Public Funds. Can you post some information about these aspects?

Hi John!

Thanks so much for getting back to me.

I have just sent you a PM with more detail.

Cheers,
Amelia Jane