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Hi everyone, not sure where to ask for advice so i am trying here so here goes...

I am a UK citizen (born here) and been living in Australia for the last 3 years and have been living together with an Australian women for the last 2, Now i am legally separated but not divorced (wife refuses) this was not a problem until my work is sending me back to the UK long term, obviously i would like my partner to come with me...but how can she?.

She is a music teacher (French Horn ect...) has qualifications but has found it more profitable to teach privately (self employed).

Any advice would be much appreciated, currently don`t know where to turn.

Tony

Unmarried Partner Visa dood.

You need two year relationship akin to marriage, which you seem to have, but you need proof in the form of documents/letters etc sent to each of you at your shared address and as many as possible in joint names. I forget the number required but I think it's 10 each, 20 in total but obviously as many as you can.

And it has to be two years, not 1 year 11 months and three weeks, they're a bit funny with that...

Wanderer wrote:Unmarried Partner Visa dood.

You need two year relationship akin to marriage, which you seem to have, but you need proof in the form of documents/letters etc sent to each of you at your shared address and as many as possible in joint names. I forget the number required but I think it's 10 each, 20 in total but obviously as many as you can.

And it has to be two years, not 1 year 11 months and three weeks, they're a bit funny with that...

Thankyou so much!, will start going through the paperwork, plenty of letters to same joint address...only got 2 joint ones as they were for our rental property.
But your help as pointed us in a direction in which to head

t0ny wrote:Hi everyone, not sure where to ask for advice so i am trying here so here goes...

I am a UK citizen (born here) and been living in Australia for the last 3 years and have been living together with an Australian women for the last 2, Now i am legally separated but not divorced (wife refuses) this was not a problem until my work is sending me back to the UK long term, obviously i would like my partner to come with me...but how can she?.

She is a music teacher (French Horn ect...) has qualifications but has found it more profitable to teach privately (self employed).

Any advice would be much appreciated, currently don`t know where to turn.

Tony

Unmarried partner visa. As far as I know it does not matter if you are not divorced, provided you can show the separation is permanent. http://www.ukvisas.gov.uk

However, are you an Australian permanent resident? If so, are you aware of the citizenship and resident return rules if you are going to be away from Australia for a long time?

Others in a similar situation might consider turning down work overseas until they have obtained their Australian citizenship.