Australian Tourist Visa Applications For Kids

Do you need a tourist visa for a Filipino child who will travel with your Filipina sweetheart to Australia? How can this be done? SHOULD this be done?

Down Under Visa explain some of the complexities of organising for a child from the Philippines to get an Australian tourist visa to accompany his mother, ie. a Filipina lady who will visit her Australian fiancee, boyfriend or husband also on a visitor visa.

http://www.downundervisa.com.au/2016/08/02/australian-tourist-visa-applications-kids/

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We’re not talking about tourist visas for solitary kids, of course. This is kids of Filipina ladies who bring them along so they can be with their future stepfathers, assuming all goes ahead toward a partner visa application later.

australian visa applications for kids may or may not be a good idea in Australian Filipina relationships

Wonderful kid, no doubt. But can make romance for mum and dad challenging.

Tourist visas for Filipino children – practical considerations

To bring the kids, or not to bring the kids?

Again, probably most don’t bring the kids. And whilst I’m a firm PERSONAL believer in kids being included in partner visa applications and not left behind, I have a bit of a different view generally when it comes to tourist visa applications. My view is that unless the relationship is mature enough and you’ve spent enough time with mum AND kids that you have a comfortable relationship anyway, you should consider leaving the kids at home for at least the first visit.

Why?

Because a first visit to Australia for a girl from the Philippines IS a big deal, and the purpose of it is to see if you’re comfortable enough together to take the relationship further and to make it permanent. For many women this will be their first trip outside the Philippines, and maybe the first time they’ve been away from their families and the home town even. They’ll be spending 3 months in an Aussie brick-veneer house out in the Australian suburbs somewhere with an Aussie man that they probably have a still-young relationship with. There will be culture-shock issues……homesickness….and the usual relationship teething-problems. Kids…..unless they are candidates for sainthood…..tend to be a demanding lot!

So the issue is you have a Filipina lady there, with her child. Mum has culture/relationship-shock, and child has usual kid-needs. She can’t tend effectively to both her relationship and needy child at the same time. One or both will most likely miss out. Not so easy to have romantic evenings and time spent gazing at each other if there’s a three-year-old tugging at Mummy’s shirt and wanting a drink. Sure doesn’t add to the romance of the whole thing!

Again, if you have spent enough time together and have concentrated already on developing bonds of a new family, then maybe none of this is an issue at all. But if not the case, maybe better to leave Junior with granny this time!