Family & Relationships Need advice on something

[suetonius]

I would like to ask for some advice on something.

I will be returning to Australia in a few weeks after one year in Korea working as an ESL teacher. I am on a mad rush to find a job in Melbourne for when I return, I have two interviews lined up but I have began to face the probable fate of having to be on Centrelink payments for a (hopefully) very short time while I job search.

I am married to a Korean and I want to bring her out to Australia so that we can live in Australia together. However this is my problem. My wife wants to come back to Australia with me straight away. Do you think this is a good idea or should we wait a few months till I have a settled job in Melbourne? There are still many things I have to prepare such as a place to rent and a secondhand car so I was thinking that I should return to Melbourne first and she should follow, yet she would not go along with this.

The other thing I woud like to ask is if it is a good idea to register for Centrelink payments as soon as I return to Australia, or should I wait a few weeks and only apply as a last resort? I ask this because I want to apply as a sponsor for my wife's spouse visa and if I go on Centrelink payments I would not be eligible to sponsor her.

I have a little bit of money saved up from my work and I will get a decent payout from the Korean government as a superannuation return, but the money can go down very quickly when I return to Australia.

Any advice or tips would be helpful.

 

[hot carl]

About 3 years ago my cousin married a Chinese woman that he was going out with for 6 months. When he wanted to come back to Australia they were married for about 9 months and to get a visa they had to be together for 12 months. From what i remember even though she qualified for a spousal visa he decided to stay another 3 months in China because it was alot less stuffing around to try and prove the relationship started more than a year before. When they came back they had to be married for another 2 years before she gets permanent residency.

 

[Messenger]

My brother and his English wife have recently moved back to Australia. They did it all from the UK. I gather being married helped a lot.

 

[bontshow]

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