Na-post ko na ito sa ibang thread, pero mukhang mas relevant/helpful dito.
Approved ang de facto ko, and he is the secondary applicant. At the time of lodging, 22 months pa lang yung relationship, and 20 months na kami living together. We don't have kids, but we have a pet dog which we intend to bring with us to Australia as mentioned in our stat decs. He is a divorcee while I've never been married. We submitted the following documents:
2 statutory declarations (sg, fr) and 1 affidavit (ph) from his mom and two of our friends about our relationship, plus yung individual stat decs namin. I would have given one more from my mom in Ph pero hindi na hiningi. Of course all duly notarized. Di namin ginamit yung Form 888, but I don't think there's going to be a problem using it as long as it's notarized. We drafted all the stat decs ourselves except for one (from my best friend) to make sure all details are correct and consistent and that we cover all bases / possible questions.
April 2014 and May 2014 monthly statements for our joint account. Note that we only opened the account in November 2013. No question from CO. All original, but we had notarized copies just in case.
all travel itineraries together. Total of 5 trips from 2012-2014. All original pdfs from airlines, but we also had them printed out and notarized just in case CO wants them.
certificate of health insurance showing we have a comprehensive health plan together
bills and official government mails (tax-related) to our same address. The bills / letters show that they date back to when we claim to have started living together.
christmas cards from his family addressed to us
about 20-something photos in one pdf file, all labeled with dates and location and who we were with (holidays, with my family, with his mom, with our dog, with our friends). Nilagyan pa namin sa dulo ng "For more, please visit (instagram ko) and (instagram niya)" 😃 Not notarized.
his divorce decree, original
Yan lang. I think yung strong proofs namin for the relationship were the bank statements, and maybe the official letters and bills to the same address plus the health insurance.
Stat decs / affidavits and photos are considered under social aspect of the relationship, which is just one part. Meron pang financial, household arrangements, etc. May list nito sa Au immi website.
Oh and one more thing: I've read somewhere that you have to be able to establish when exactly you made a life-long commitment. Medyo di ko alam how CO's check this, in our case nilagay lang namin sa stat dec na yung decision to migrate to Au is an offshoot of a discussion of our long term plans together. Others can demonstrate by their engagement, or kung yung iba may kids na strong proof rin yan.