Help me keep my Fiance in Australia
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Update 2: we've found an alternate source of funding the bulk of the Visa and paid for it on Wednesday March 26th.
However, there's further work to be done regarding the application; including medical tests that are at our own expense, background checks, statements, etc. These will be determined over the coming weeks so we still need funding just not so much as originally needed.
Thank you so much to everyone who's already donated. Your money will not be wasted it just won't be needed for the bulk of the Visa itself. I've dropped the total goal down to reflect this though I am unsurw at this point in time the exact final cost. I will update it again when we have a better requirement list from Immigration.
Once again thank so much to everyone that liked, shared, posted, retweeted, rejournal, and just overall helped us out by being supportive. It means more to us than you can possibly imagine.
~Mea ♡
Update: My fiance had an appointment with Immigration today, and it didn't go as well as expected. Basically the maximum length of the visa she's on is 12 months, which she's now overstayed. There was nothing to say that we couldn't extend it until August, there was no warning about it expiring in February, this is the FIRST time we've been contact by them in regards to this. We had no warning and didn't see it coming.
So after meeting with someone from Immigration about it we've basically been given an ultimatum.... 2 weeks to either apply for the marriage visa or get a ticket back home.
She can't. Plain and simple, she can't go back. She has nothing to go back to. She escaped from an uncaring family that was trying to actively kill her through neglect and bullying. She has very few friends, none of them she knows IRL, and none of them she trusts well enough to live with them. She will end up homeless and pennyless.That really cannot happen. I don't want that to happen. I want her to stay, but the Marriage Visa we need will cost us about $5000 - Prospective Marriage Visa (VAC1) is $3085, plus she will need to have his fingerprints taken and sent back to the US so that another background check can be done, there may be a health check that needs to be done at our own expense and can include a full range of tests including (but not limited to) Xrays, every single document we submit has to be a certified copy which means we need to get them actually certified probably in triplicate... there's a whole bunch of minor things that will need to be done in order to make this happen.
That's money we don't have. Straight up I'm already struggling to pay off the loans that I had to take out just to get her here, the visa renewals... we though we had until August. Now we have until Friday after next.
Original Plea: In February of 2013, my fiancé was forced to move from the United States to Australia; leaving behind a family that didn't care for her and wanted nothing to do with her, and for the most part was all but actively trying to kill her through neglect and indifference. When she got here she was anorexic and could barely tolerate food, which is why the lack of food money has, and always will be, a huge issue for me. I've finally got her eating 2 full meals a day and don't want her to slip backwards into being unable to eat again, even though she always makes sure that I'm taken care of and served first, I make sure she eats as much as she can handle but I still stress about it.
Back In the US she was unable to find work due to injuries that she sustained in the US Navy including but not limited to multiple spinal injuries, and late last year she also tore the ligaments in her remaining good knee and was unable to find medical care without a job or insurance. And seeing as her family didn't care they refused to help out. She's left everything behind to come start a new life here with me, and I've done everything I can to provide her with a better life.
But it's a struggle living on a single income, and seeing as I had to get myself into massive debt with a loan to pay for the initial move internationally, it makes it all that much harder. We need to get her Australian Citizenship in order to get her onto the free healthcare system over here, to get her injuries actually taken care of, and to allow her to legitimately get a job that can help us out in the long run.
We're attempting to get a business started, but are finding it hard to get the capital to get the equipment needed to get it off the ground; we've applied to banks for help getting it going but it seems not one is willing to take a chance on us. They seem to all require equity that we just don't have. I live in a rented house, with second-hand everything from furniture to cutlery, the only things I have of value are my phone, my computer and my tablet which I need to carry out my art commissions. My fiancé has even less, though I share everything I have with her, but her laptop is rapidly failing and once it's gone she won't have any other way of doing her writing commissions.
What we ideally need is the initial $3500 to get a Marriage Visa, which will allow her to stay in the country for up to 2 years while we organise a wedding to make it permanent, and will allow me to get her onto Medicare in the meantime so she can seek the medial attention she requires to get herself back into better shape. The Australian system is much better though not entirely free, and while her injuries will never completely heal, with the medial attention she will receive it will definitely help her out and put her in a better position.
It will also allow us to get her much needed surgery for her gallstones which she's had since before she moved. In the US that's surgery that would cost a lot of money. In Australia is relatively free especially for cars like hers where it would require immediate surgery due to the length of time she's had it and the amount of pain it is causing her. We can do this even before we're married as long as she has her marriage visa and is put on to Medicare which will be relatively easy to do and won't cost us anything.
From there she can get a job and we can save up to start the business and get our financial footing into better position for the long run, and ultimately get married so that she has a permanent home here with me where still will be reminded every day through words AND actions that she is loved more than anything in the Universe. She has enough experience and an awesome resume, so getting a job even with her injuries shouldn't be too much of a problem here in Australia, but it's that permit to work that we need most of all.
Currently we take commissions for extra funds to help us out with our weekly needs, ideally we only need approximately $100 extra a week for groceries though I'm not getting anywhere near that right now, and my day job can keep up with the bills themselves that's not a problem. I've also taken on an extra day at work for an indeterminate amount of time in order to cover that need. But even with this, saving to pay for the Visa itself is completely out of the question, though her current Tourist Visa doesn't expire for just under a year so we have plenty of time.
However, there's further work to be done regarding the application; including medical tests that are at our own expense, background checks, statements, etc. These will be determined over the coming weeks so we still need funding just not so much as originally needed.
Thank you so much to everyone who's already donated. Your money will not be wasted it just won't be needed for the bulk of the Visa itself. I've dropped the total goal down to reflect this though I am unsurw at this point in time the exact final cost. I will update it again when we have a better requirement list from Immigration.
Once again thank so much to everyone that liked, shared, posted, retweeted, rejournal, and just overall helped us out by being supportive. It means more to us than you can possibly imagine.
~Mea ♡
Update: My fiance had an appointment with Immigration today, and it didn't go as well as expected. Basically the maximum length of the visa she's on is 12 months, which she's now overstayed. There was nothing to say that we couldn't extend it until August, there was no warning about it expiring in February, this is the FIRST time we've been contact by them in regards to this. We had no warning and didn't see it coming.
So after meeting with someone from Immigration about it we've basically been given an ultimatum.... 2 weeks to either apply for the marriage visa or get a ticket back home.
She can't. Plain and simple, she can't go back. She has nothing to go back to. She escaped from an uncaring family that was trying to actively kill her through neglect and bullying. She has very few friends, none of them she knows IRL, and none of them she trusts well enough to live with them. She will end up homeless and pennyless.That really cannot happen. I don't want that to happen. I want her to stay, but the Marriage Visa we need will cost us about $5000 - Prospective Marriage Visa (VAC1) is $3085, plus she will need to have his fingerprints taken and sent back to the US so that another background check can be done, there may be a health check that needs to be done at our own expense and can include a full range of tests including (but not limited to) Xrays, every single document we submit has to be a certified copy which means we need to get them actually certified probably in triplicate... there's a whole bunch of minor things that will need to be done in order to make this happen.
That's money we don't have. Straight up I'm already struggling to pay off the loans that I had to take out just to get her here, the visa renewals... we though we had until August. Now we have until Friday after next.
Original Plea: In February of 2013, my fiancé was forced to move from the United States to Australia; leaving behind a family that didn't care for her and wanted nothing to do with her, and for the most part was all but actively trying to kill her through neglect and indifference. When she got here she was anorexic and could barely tolerate food, which is why the lack of food money has, and always will be, a huge issue for me. I've finally got her eating 2 full meals a day and don't want her to slip backwards into being unable to eat again, even though she always makes sure that I'm taken care of and served first, I make sure she eats as much as she can handle but I still stress about it.
Back In the US she was unable to find work due to injuries that she sustained in the US Navy including but not limited to multiple spinal injuries, and late last year she also tore the ligaments in her remaining good knee and was unable to find medical care without a job or insurance. And seeing as her family didn't care they refused to help out. She's left everything behind to come start a new life here with me, and I've done everything I can to provide her with a better life.
But it's a struggle living on a single income, and seeing as I had to get myself into massive debt with a loan to pay for the initial move internationally, it makes it all that much harder. We need to get her Australian Citizenship in order to get her onto the free healthcare system over here, to get her injuries actually taken care of, and to allow her to legitimately get a job that can help us out in the long run.
We're attempting to get a business started, but are finding it hard to get the capital to get the equipment needed to get it off the ground; we've applied to banks for help getting it going but it seems not one is willing to take a chance on us. They seem to all require equity that we just don't have. I live in a rented house, with second-hand everything from furniture to cutlery, the only things I have of value are my phone, my computer and my tablet which I need to carry out my art commissions. My fiancé has even less, though I share everything I have with her, but her laptop is rapidly failing and once it's gone she won't have any other way of doing her writing commissions.
What we ideally need is the initial $3500 to get a Marriage Visa, which will allow her to stay in the country for up to 2 years while we organise a wedding to make it permanent, and will allow me to get her onto Medicare in the meantime so she can seek the medial attention she requires to get herself back into better shape. The Australian system is much better though not entirely free, and while her injuries will never completely heal, with the medial attention she will receive it will definitely help her out and put her in a better position.
It will also allow us to get her much needed surgery for her gallstones which she's had since before she moved. In the US that's surgery that would cost a lot of money. In Australia is relatively free especially for cars like hers where it would require immediate surgery due to the length of time she's had it and the amount of pain it is causing her. We can do this even before we're married as long as she has her marriage visa and is put on to Medicare which will be relatively easy to do and won't cost us anything.
From there she can get a job and we can save up to start the business and get our financial footing into better position for the long run, and ultimately get married so that she has a permanent home here with me where still will be reminded every day through words AND actions that she is loved more than anything in the Universe. She has enough experience and an awesome resume, so getting a job even with her injuries shouldn't be too much of a problem here in Australia, but it's that permit to work that we need most of all.
Currently we take commissions for extra funds to help us out with our weekly needs, ideally we only need approximately $100 extra a week for groceries though I'm not getting anywhere near that right now, and my day job can keep up with the bills themselves that's not a problem. I've also taken on an extra day at work for an indeterminate amount of time in order to cover that need. But even with this, saving to pay for the Visa itself is completely out of the question, though her current Tourist Visa doesn't expire for just under a year so we have plenty of time.
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