Dear everyone,
Posting on behalf my husband as his user can't post yet.
He's an Australian citizen living in NZ (we haven't left NZ at any time) since end of 2015.
He didn't apply for a variation of travel conditions as we didn't plan to go on holidays overseas.
I'm awaiting my Residence application INZ1000 to be approved (fingers crossed)
We have been reading everywhere on the internet, this forum, INZ website, INZ Instructions Manual, everywhere, called the INZ call centre and couldn't get a certain answer.
Our question is (perhaps too obvious to everyone but us):
When applying to PR as an Australian there's the possibility to include others in the application but here's the tricky part, Australians at no point apply to Residence to start with, hence I couldn't be included in his application, in all my Work Visas and Residence applications I have always been the Principal Applicant yet sponsored by a NZer (Australian)
Our question is specifically if I (Sponsored under the partner Category of a NZer) could be included in his PR Application as an Australian Citizen.HIDE
If you were a non-principal applicant when you applied for a resident visa, you must apply for your permanent resident visa at the same time or after the principal applicant, unless a non-principal exception applies.
The criteria for PR applies to all kinds of residents but for Australians, it doesn't really specify and a NZ Citizen doesn't have to apply to PR.
Australians get Residence on arrival, we arrived together on the same plane.
We're totally lost and we have gotten all kinds of different answers from INZ. Seems like no one has any idea about this as it doesn't happen very often.
Any input would be greatly appreciated.
Good night x