Hi all,


First of all I would like to thank all the people who have helped me with answers to me previous questions on this forum, now after reading some more threads I have a concern about something that happened to another member on here which I think may possibly happen to my partner and I.

My partner and I have not lived together but would like to spend our future in NZ, she is Armenian so has to apply for in visas in the Moscow branch, we applied for a visitor visa so she could come and live with me so we could gather evidence of living together for a partnership visa.

Unfortunately her visitor visa was declined as she did not meet the "Bonafide" requirements, as she stated she did not intend a temporary stay in NZ (we told them we wanted to gather evidence of partnership and then apply for a partnership visa) and that she did not have enough ties to return home, such as a job or dependent children etc, but our CO offered a limited visa for 5 months as an alternative which we took.

So our next step is to gather evidence of partnership so when her limited visa expires she can go home and apply for a partnership based work visa but my concern is they may still consider her not "Bonafide" for a partnership based work visa since they considered her not Bonafide for the first visitor visa. I read a new thread on this site from an Indian man saying his partnership based visitor visa was declined as they told him he did not have enough ties in his home country to return.

My questions if anyone can help me are as follows:

Does my partner need to have ties to her home country to be eligible for a partnership based work visa?

Anyone who has applied for a partnership based work visa, did you have to provide proof of ties to your home country?

On the partnership based work visa form where it asks if she has been declined before, do we need to say yes as our CO said her visitor visa has been declined? because she offered and granted a limited visa as an alternative