Originally Posted by
Ranjittoor
Hello everyone, Just a general questions regarding Partnership category.
I applied for SMC residncy in may 2019 but there is no CO allocation on my case. From the updates I got on other thread INZ is still allocating applications from December 2018 which means it may take another 4-5 months or more for allocation of my applicaiton.
So here is my scenario, last year around December I got into a Defacto relationship and updated INZ with my EOI and SMC application about this. At that time I thought rather than waiting for 1 year to apply with partnership category its good to do my residency case through SMC but now it looks like a wrong decision.
Now as I am eligible to apply for residency under partnership category as its been 12 months, so what would you all suggest?
Please share whats your opinion about this...
1. Should I change my ESV to partnership visa and apply for residency under partnership or should I wait for SMC decision?
2. Also whats current wait times for partnership visa and partnership residency .. is it same as SMC or better
Many thanks