Philippines to Australia: Australian Visas, Frayed Emotions and a Journey You Will Never Forget

So, you met the love of your life in the Philippines! Maybe you were actively looking for someone from overseas, or maybe you just stumbled into each other one day whilst searching around on the web? Or maybe you were traveling overseas and someone stole your heart away? Or maybe someone you knew pulled you aside one day and said “Hey, you might like my cousin...”

Either way, you’ve found yourself head-over-heals in love, but she’s more than driving-distance away from your Aussie home. And like most Aussies, you haven’t the faintest idea what happens next! How can you get her to visit you in Australia, or maybe you’re at the stage where you want to know how can you bring her to Australia permanently so you can live your lives together?

Maybe you’ve already discovered that this will not be a simple or even a sure-fire process with a certain outcome. She needs a visa to come to Australia, despite whether you’re just boyfriend and girlfriend, engaged or even if you’re already married. You will discover that visas are GRANTS and not RIGHTS, and that there is a very real possibility you may be miserably unsuccessful with a big fat refusal on your hands!

Fortunately there IS hope, and there exists experts like Jeff Harvie RMA (MARN 0959797) and the team from Down Under Visa who spend their workdays managing Australian visa applications for Australian Filipina couples just like yourselves. In fact they do nothing else! No student visas from India and no work visas from the UK. They stick to what they know and what they do well. Jeff and his Filipina wife Mila have lived and worked in Manila Philippines for many years, and they actually went through the Aussie partner visa process themselves years before.

Jeff has produced this book to lift the veil on some of the issues that Australian Filipina couples can and will come up against in their journey through the maze that is Australian migration law. There is a lot of nonsense out there in online “advice” groups and from well-meaning friends and relatives. May this book give you some clarity, and may it help you to make your dreams come true.