Citizenship by Descent a great option
We at Down Under Visa do plenty of applications for Citizenship By Descent for the biological
children of Australian Citizens.
Of course we would like to do more.
To those Australian men who have fathered kids in the Philippines, its a wonderful gift.
It means that your Filipino children fall into that category of human beings that dont
require visas to visit Australia.
They can enter Australia anytime they like, and they may remain there and have the same
rights as any other Australian Citizen.
They can get Australian passports and will never need to get an Australian visa ever.
And the other issues?
Citizenship by Descent applications are cheaper Including a child in a partner visa application
will cost $1,720.00 in Government visa application charges (for a child under 18).
And at the end of the day, that will lead to being a permanent resident.
Citizenship is still years down the track if they go down the standard pathway that
everyone else goes on.
Citizenship by Descent applications are quicker to process
We just had a Citizenship grant take about 2 weeks!
Thats really unusual, but normally Citizenship applications only take a couple of months.
This is particularly good value if you are applying for a partner visa application at
the same time.
It means that it should be granted before the partner visa application is finished,
giving plenty of time to organise a passport for the child.
Citizenship by Descent What is needed?
Firstly, the child must be a biological child of an Australian Citizen.
And the parent must have been an Australian Citizen at the time of the childs birth.
It wont work if Dad acquired his own Citizenship later than the birth.
And for those heroic knight-in-shining-armour types who think they will do the honourable
thing and give his name to a child that he didnt father?
Cant be done and must not be done.
If you wish to include the child in a partner visa application?
Then definitely good for you!
Ill shake your hand any day at all.
But dont try to be noble and tell porkies, or you will get caught out.
Must be your flesh and blood to become a Citizen by this method.
And again, must warn against trying to be clever here.
This is not a short-cut to adoption.
You cant take sisters child and claim the child to be your own.
They can and will do DNA testing if they have any doubts, and attempting to defraud the
Australian Government is never a good idea.
The other common error is it is basic mathematics to count back nine months from a birth.
If you and mum were not in the same place at that particular time, its highly unlikely
that you were the biological dad.
And other issue is that it doesnt take a genius to look at photos of dad and photos of child
to see if theres a family resemblance there.
And they DO look closely at photos.
Not going to outline all of the evidence necessary at this point.
But be aware that evidence is required to prove that the child is definitely the child
of an Australian Citizen.
If this is something that happened many years ago (especially if you were unaware), then
of course this will be difficult.
But with a child of a genuine relationship where you freely acknowledged the child as
your child right from the beginning, then none of this should be difficult for either
of you to organise with our guidance.
If you would like to go down this pathway, please let us know.
You can just use the Contact Form on the website.
Its a wonderful gift
to give to
a child.
Well done!