Hi all, wondering if anyone has suggestions for my situation. I'm Australian by descent but was born overseas so my children (also born outside Australia) won't automatically qualify for citizenship. I've never lived in Australia. I understand that if I go and live there for 2 years, my children would then be able to get citizenship. My husband is not Australian.
Has anyone been through this process? We're starting to look into it as a possibility (moving the whole family rather than just sending me), either going there for a specific job, or, if we go while kids are young enough, to live a more 'freelance' life and properly explore the country for a couple of years before they have to start school.
We might end up settling there, or we might decide to do the bare minimum to qualify and then leave - in which case I want to make sure all our ducks are lined up so we don't end up somehow missing something and not qualifying. I expect we need a paper trail to prove I've lived there.
Some questions:
-presumably I need a fixed address to register for Medicare etc - how does it work if we travel around?
-any advice for getting the visa for dependents (husband, kids) as we'd be doing this from outside Australia?
-any other key points we should be considering at this stage?
Thank you!