John
Have you made application yet for Minying to come to Aus permanently
My Lawyer told me that I would likely NOT succeeed with visitor visa for my Ming unless we had made application for her permanent visa.
This has little to do with any specific relationship issues, but is part of their "unwritten" policy to not grant tourist visas to "single" women from anywhere. They feel that until you apply for permanent residence, the relationship is likely not genuine and she may disappear into the woodwork when she gets here as a tourist. What they are dead set paranoid about are the "arranged" marriages where Aussies are being paid to get into a sham marriage for the sole purpose of getting a foreign woman a PR visa. Once she arrives with PR visa, she leaves the Man, waits for Citizenship, and then brings all family and rellies over !!! With regret, there are too many pointers for them in your relationship that lead them down this false trail (in your case)
If all else fails, she is more likely to get a Tourist Visa as part of an organised Tour...which may be a way out for you.
Once you have made application for Permanent Residency, the Tourist Visa is not a problem any more.
I can see that they would have some negative vibes based on the sole communication between you being via CHNLove. They would worry that you did not get off this model and into your own "private" communication together. It is yet another reason to dump CHNLOve as soon as posible and get on to QQ etc.
Remember, they are ONLY assessing her Tourist visa AS A POTENTIAL TOURIST, and as a potential "bolter" and not as your wife. Until you make application for Permanent Residence for her, they will tend to view it that you are not not really man and wife.
Can you see their logic...if you are Man and Wife, it is very strange that your wife does not know your birthday, the names of your kids, your email address, and cannot remember the phone number or the address of her place of employment......and has almost no English, and you applied for Tourist Visa 8 days after a wedding, but did not apply for a PR visa. We here know that that is no biggie...but they dont see it that way. To them, these are BIG RED FLAGS.
I am told by my Lawyer, that if they have small concerns about the genuine nature of the Tourist Visa request, they usually ask for you to deposit a hefty Bond to ensure she will return to China. If they have big concerns, they reject the application without the option of a Bond.
My only advice is to get the Permanent Residency Visa request submitted as quickly as you can....and then get the Tourist Visa, would likely be much quicker than a 70 day appeals process...and much less stressful.
In the meantime, you must begin to do all the "conventional " things they want to see....QQ, emails etc...and please, do yourselves a favour....teach her to speak in English for some of these important things that a wife must know about her husband....then you can satisfy the beaurocracy !!! Because , my friend, THEY will want to see it done their way, you have no choice in the matter. It will be very important to demonstrate the reality of your relationship when you apply for PR. They dont care about love or emotions...only about realistic evidence of the relationship.
As a matter of interest, Ming and I had 1100 pages of QQ transcripts over a period of 14 months and I took a screen shot of her face every time we were on QQ together, a total of 320 screen shots...and I sent them ALL with our PR application...(data overload
). We also had 106 emails between us to and from our private email addresses.
Good luck...but stay cool with them, dont cruel your future chances by getting aggressive.
Cheers...David
ps...I f you want to discuss further, PM me, or phone me if you need to.
