How Do I Get My Thai Girlfriend an Australian Tourist Visa?

Do you have a Thai girlfriend?

Did you meet some time ago? You might have visited her in Thailand numerous times while on holiday or visiting the coutnry.

Have kept in regular contact, by phone, email or letter over the course of several months?

Is she beautiful and funny, and keen to come and visit you in Australia?

Would you love to take her home and introduce her to your friends and family and show her around your home town? You think that you have a chance of making the relationship work, and you’re keen to get her by your side.

If this scenario sounds familiar to you, and you answered yes to any of those questions you maybe looking for some quality advice on how to bring your Thai girfriend to Australia.

Australian Visa Advice is a DIY visa option, with close email supervision and online help from a qualified and experienced Migration Agent. It allows you to apply for either a tourist visa, fiancé visa or a spouse visa, while giving you all the help and support you need with the application.

You apply for the visa yourself but a Migration Consultant from 'Australian Visa Advice' helps you with the difficulties. This service can help provide you with the very best migration advice, at a fraction of the usual cost.

Migration Agents usually charge thousands of dollars for their services.

They prepare all the documentary evidence and proof that each application requires. They supply the application forms and spend hours on the phone relaying information on your behalf. No wonder they have to charge such high fees!

So what if you could do all the paper work yourself?

What if you could collate all the necessary documents, and follow all the steps that need to be followed… would you be confident doing it by yourself?

Many people don’t feel confident and their applications are lacking in substance and detail. As a result a large percentage of visa applications fail...

BUT what if you could do the process yourself while having a qualified and experienced Migration Agent help and advise you at every step of the process?

You’d be in with a much better chance of success.

You could be bringing your Thai lady home very soon and enjoying your life together in Australia.

True blue Ozzie visa advice is close at hand, helping you to make the difficult decisions and getting your loved one home to you.

Head over to Australian Visa for Thai Girlfriend for more information and advice, and see how they can help you get a visa and save you thousands of dollars!

Check your visa status at the click of a button

Australian visa holders can now find out about their visa status and visa conditions at the click of a button.

The Visa Entitlement Verification Online (or VEVO) service, is a free, internet service that is available 24/7 and makes it possible to lodge an Australian visa, check the status of an application, and check visa entitlements online.

VEVO represents a huge step forward, as visa holders will no longer need to attach a visa label to their passport to travel to or work in Australia. Instead, VEVO "enables visa holders to view their visa details online,” a Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) spokesman said. “More and more visa holders are using VEVO, with at least 50 000 people logging on monthly to view their visa details. This means fewer and fewer people need to personally visit a DIAC office to get their visa evidenced.” That's great news for those wanting to check the status or the conditions of their Australian visa.

Have you heard about our 20% discount on our Australian visa services?

New Australian Superyacht Visa

The new Australian superyacht work visa is making life easier for crew visiting Down Under, allowing crew members to work on board vessels over 24 meters, to remain in Australia for up to 12 months.

In what is an up-and-coming industry in Australia (in 2007 some 50 superyachts graced Australia’s shores) this new visa system opens the region to the all important global charter market.

One feature of the new superyacht visa, is that crew do not need to make a personal appearance to apply for it. They can download it directly from the Australian Government Department of Immigration and Citizen Website from anywhere in the world. That's pretty handy when you're used to a life at sea!

Any information needed about how the visa works is provided in a systematic guide to track the applicant through the process.

You can nominate a validity period of three, six, or 12 months for each multiple entry crew visa. However, all applicants must be over 18 years of age, and meet eligibility requirements - consisting of a medical check and character references. In addition, all crew need to be sponsored to work in Australia by the owner, or captain of the vessel on which they are employed (the visa is only valid for work on that vessel).

There are no application fees for the superyacht crew visa. However, to apply you will need to have the following items in order:

• Signed employment contract

• Letter from owner or captain on company letterhead confirming your employment status

• Evidence of the vessel’s registration

• A copy of the vessel’s insurance certificate or survey papers

• Revision of materials by the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Senator Chris Evans

Should your application for superyacht crew status provide all suitable documentation and your eligibility requirements are satisfactory, expect a wait of two to four weeks from your date of lodgment to receive a reply.

Skilled Visa Processing Priorities Change

Will this affect your application?

As noted in a previous article, Australia's Immigration Minister has announced changes to skilled visa processing priorities that will affect the application time for skilled visa applications.

As a result, applicants that have nominated an occupation listed on the Critical Skills List, and have also been nominated for that occupation by a State and Territory Government, will find that their application will be processed as a priority.

Conversely, those whose occupation is not on the Critical Skills List and who don’t have sponsorship from a State or Territory Government, should be aware that there might be a longer wait than they were perhaps expecting when their visa application was lodged.

Applicants for a subclass 175 (Skilled Independent) visa and those whose occupation is not on the Critical Skills List might consider seeking sponsorship from a State or Territory Government, if they wish to see their visa application processed to a decision sooner rather than later. An application for a subclass 175 visa can be moved to a subclass 176 (Skilled Sponsored) visa once suitable sponsorship has been obtained.

These new changes have been introduced as a way for State and Territory Governments to facilitate skilled migration in an effort to meet critical skills shortages in their jurisdictions.
Get the critical skills list here.

Engineers get priority for visa applications

Engineers applying for a visa to migrate to Australia will receive priority from Australian immigration.

The Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) has included the following engineering occupations on the new Critical Skills List (CSL) coming into effect on 1 January 2009.

2129-17 Engineer - Chemical
2124-11 Engineer - Civil
2125-11 Engineer - Electrical
2125-13 Engineer - Electronics
2126-11 Engineer - Mechanical
2127-11 Engineer - Mining

2126-13 Engineer - Production or Plant Engineer

From: tribuslingua.com.au