Hi @fillystar!I hope you and your husband have made it home to Oz safely. My partner and I have been separated since January and we are feeling very hopeless. He applied for an exemption to travel to the US and was denied and another shot we have is if I apply for an exemption to travel Oz. I was...

Hi @arolyat,  Thank you for sharing your story and your advice. May I ask what your compelling reason to travel was? I posted my story below but I feel that, just as you mentioned, my partner's application may have been denied because we did not make a compelling enough case (as if being se...

Hi @SBRIT, Thank you for taking the time to reply. We are super discouraged and given that you have been successful, we are hoping you might have some advice. Since my initial post, we have officially submitted a prospective marriage visa which is pending. My partner (AUS citizen) applied fo...

Hi everyone - looking for advice from successful applicants. I am a US citizen and met my AUS citizen partner 14 months ago on holiday in Bali. We saw each other in October and again in January (spent 30 days together in US and Oz). We planned to visit again in April but of course could not....