Hi All,
We are a Colombian Couple living in Singapore. I am 28YO and my wife 25YO. I have been working for almost 1 year and a half, and I married my 6-years-Girlfriend the last September. She lived with me in Singapore from February 2013 to May 2013, and the returned to Colombia for 6 months. Once we got married I applied for her Dependant Visa in SG, it was approved and now we are living here in SG since October. Now i received a job offer in New Zealand and I am applying for the work visa, but we are not sure Which visa is better to apply for my wife as we have lived together just 6 months (The requirement for the partnership-based visa is a specified number of months or all depends on the Officer??).
We want to apply for the Partnership-Based temporary Visitor Visa, although she has a Degree in physiotherapy, the plans are that she starts first studying english and later a postgraduate course. Anyway Our big questions are: Is likely to get an approval with the partnership-based Visa even we have lived just 6 months together or we better go for a Visitor Visa instead, and later on once we achieve more time living together we apply for the partner visa?, and the other question is If its better to apply for the Partnership Visa, is there any difference on the chances to get the approval between the Partnership-Based Visitor visa and the Partnership-base work visa in our case?
Thanks a lot for your help
Juan