A little background on us:
We're both in our mid/late twenties. I'm a NZ Citizen (lived here in NZ my entire life, with a degree from UoA), she is from China and has been studying science here in Auckland.
We've been together in a relationship for nearly three years, just a few weeks ago we moved in together to my place and I'm now in the process of trying to get her a Partner Sponsored Work Visa.
What they don't mention is we also included screenshots of my email account showing emails between us going back years, and I used to uploaded my txts automatically to the cloud so I included a snapshot of that showing heaps of txts between us. So I've emailed back already telling them they've overlooked those two points.1. 2 bank account statements [from her bank]
2. Letter from your partner
3. 8 letters of support
4. Photo copies of photos
5. Letter from [my tertiary education provider, which simply was the most "official" recent letter I had to my address available]
6. Facebook printouts
But I fear this won't be enough, as they said:
http://www.immigration.govt.nz/opsmanual/30880.htmThe documents you have provided does not:
1. establish the duration of your relationship;
2. There is limited evidence of financial interdependence or any arrangements for financial support;
3. There is no supporting evidence of common ownership, use and acquisition of property;
4. We are not able to ascertain that there is any commitment to a shared life;
5. Whether there is any performance of common household duties and
6. There is no evidence to demonstrate the reputation and public aspects of your relationship.
7. There is very limited evidence of the existence, nature, and extent of common residence.
1) I would've thought the emails/txts, the date stamps on all the photos, and the letters of support would've been sufficient? What more could I do?
2) dunno what I can do about this, we buy little things for each other now and then such as recently I gave her a jewelry trinket and she got me a shirt. Maybe the two receipts from when we went shopping at Countdown together yesterday could be used as an example, we go shopping together but each buy the food and we share it at home. I guess I could also point out it was with my credit card that the application fee for the visa was paid with.
3) ummm.... we both carried a free sofa home together a few months ago, I guess we've now got shared ownership of that? lol, but seriously.... we're both students in our 20's and are hardly asset rich! So it isn't as if we could have joint ownership of anything (our biggest assets would be our cameras, we're both keen amatuer photographers, plus our computers/cellphones/clothes. Oh, and my bicycles)
4) wasn't everything as a whole of what we've provided already enough??? What more can we do?
5) She cooks, I eat! She cleans, I mess the house up! ha, I jest I jest! But seriously, how can I possibly provide proof for this?
6) errrr.... ahhh, what about those photos of us in public and the letters from our friends? Surely that is exactly what is required for this point.
7) I suppose this was always going to be a problem, as she only moved in with me a handful of weeks ago. But for the Partnership Sponsored Work Visa there doesn't need to be any length of time living together, only that we are living together right now? There was for her the bank statements and for me the letter from my education provider, perhaps I could include another more recent letter that has arrived during the application process.
Any advice or similar experiences you can share is appreciated :-)