User:Downundervisa

= Down Under Visa =

Down Under Visa is the creation of Registered Migration Agent Jeff Harvie (MARN 0958797), and its office is in Dasmarinas Cavite in the Philippines, an hours drive south of Metro Manila.

Down Under Visa is a migration agency practice, which provides immigration advice and visa application management to Australian men who have developed relationships with Filipina ladies in the Philippines and wish them to migrate to Australia primarily through the Family Visa Stream, and in particular the Partner Category Visas. They also manage Visitor Visa applications for Australian Filipino couples who are not yet ready for Family Visa Stream visas, as well as Child Visas and Citizenship By Descent applications for children born overseas with one Australian Citizen as a biological parent. Jeff Harvie is joined in the practice with his Filipina wife, Mila Harvie, as well as his Australian son Jeremy Harvie. Together they form the management team, and are supported by Office Supervisor Sherry Harvie, and administrator Remy Harvie. Incoming document management and data entry is processed in the office by locally-hired and in-house trained local staff.

In the year of 2017, the practice managed over 800 visa applications.

Background
Jeff Harvie spent many years in Central Queensland in Australia, practicing as an agronomist, and an agricultural business advisor. The decline of the family farm in rural Australia and the increasing numbers of corporate farms led to some soul searching on his part, and made him decide to make a change in career direction. Having spent the last part of the 1990's exploring and experiencing the culture of the Philippines led to meeting and marrying the love of his life Mila. It also led to a love of the Philippines and Filipino people. The desire to help other Australian men to build new families developed into a vocation. Jeff took himself back to university eventually became a Registered Migration Agent through the office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority (MARA), a statutory body set up by the Department of Immigration (now Department of Home Affairs) to regulate the profession and to protect consumers. Down Under Visa was formed and incorporated in the Philippines with the mission to help Australian men and the wives and fiancees that they had already met to migrate to Australia with a professionally managed case.

Visa Types
Any non-Citizen of Australia or New Zealand entering Australia requires a visa, and Australia has a high number of different visa types. Down Under Visa, in line with their desire to assist a particular demographic of Australian men and their Filipina partners have specialised in a narrow number of visas for helping these couples to migrate to Australia.

Partner visas

 * Subclass 300 Prospective Marriage Visas
 * Subclass 309/100 Offshore Partner Visa
 * Subclass 820/801 Onshore Partner Visa
 * Subclass 461 New Zealand Family Relationship Visa

Child visas

 * Subclass 101 Child Visa
 * Subclass 445 Dependent Child Visa

Citizenship

 * Citizenship By Descent