i am on dependent student visa of Australia. Can i enter Australia earlier then my wife to chk accommodation?

Question

Hi,
I just got dependent student visa as my wife is main applicant. Still we don’t travel to Australia yet. If i want to enter Australia first then my wife, to find and set accommodation then is it possible for me? Or there is no possibility to go dependent first. As well as my wife is pregnant and i want to know our health insurance (OSHC) can cover all expenses? If they dnt then plz tell me the cost of all this in private and public hospitals?
I will be thankful to you.
thanks,
Rock

Answer 1

What does your visa say about your entry date? As a general rule, dependents on Student visas can't enter before the Student but I would expect your visa grant advice to say something about it.



If you have OSHC Worldcare Standard cover, for the first 12 months after your arrival in Australia, you are not covered for pregnancy related conditions. If you have OSHC Worldcare Essentials cover, you are covered as long as your student visa is for a period of three (3) months or more and you have valid OSHC cover.

https://www.oshcworldcare.com.au/skins/oshc2/pdf/f95_OS008%20Pregnancy_Dec11.pdf OSHC Pregnancy fact sheet



Pregnant students often get visas and so do other women coming to Australia on temporary visas. As long as your wife keeps to the attendance conditions of her visa, DIAC will not have a problem with her being pregnant.



EDIT:

I DO know the rules and have forgotten more about Australian immigration and citizenship in the last 5 minutes than the dissenting answerer will ever know! He seems to be under the completely mistaken impression that if a foreigner gives birth to a child in Australia, that that somehow gives them some right to citizenship - nothing could be further from the truth. If neither parent is an Australian citizen or PR, the child (and the parent/s) have no claim to residence or citizenship so it's of no concern to Australian immigration if a pregnant woman gets an Australian Student visa. Provided the Student visa holder conforms to the conditions of her visa and applies for a Student dependent visa for the child as soon as it is born, Australian immigration authorities are happy. She can give birth to a brood of children while she's here on a Student visa but none of them will be able to stay once that visa expires.

Answer 2

Everything you asked up until --my wife is pregnant made sense.

At that point I think all you have written is just rubbish as there is NO WAY Australian Immigration is going to issue a student visa to a pregnant foreigner.

No one gets in to have babies there is NO visa for that. If you did NOT declare the pregnancy to Immigration in the application and you must NOT have or they wouldn't have granted any visa then when you rock up at the airport you will have a nice look out the window on the way back down the concourse to the first plane heading back to your country as you WILL both be be deported either that same day or the next. No way are you and she getting Customs and Immigration clearance if she is pregnant--it ain't happening mate. I can only assume you have omitted that detail on your application and think you can get away with it? Im telling you now, you don't have a prayer.

ADDED LATER--Normally I have learnt whatever Ozmaniac posts is pretty much correct. NOT this time and I challenge anyone to post positive proof Australian Immigration issues visas to pregnant overseas students when the birth of a child onshore in Australia allows that person more rights to citizenship. If this was correct, every pregnant 3RD world foreign student would be on a plane tomorrow. Even if it WAS possible--every 3rd world teen ager would be getting pregnant and applying knowing that once her child was born, she would end up with Australian citizenship. This is either the biggest back door loop hole to Australian citizenship or total bull sheet.

I say it is bull sheet. We just ain't that dumb as to let in pregnant girls, then have to be responsible for their hospital care and the child's right s to claim citizenship. Sorry Ozmaniac, on pretty much the majority of stuff you know the rules but on this one I will argue with you till Im blue.

Aussie is NOT going to bring in pregnant women who can then claim citizenship by having a child.

If that is the case , every 3rd world woman, pregnant , would be filling the planes on a daily basis.I have always had availability here for other Yappers to email me through Yahoo . Oz--pls do so with your proof. Normally I would bow to your advice but on this--no way. Dont for one minute tell me Australia has a ''back door'' to citizenship by coming here as a pregnant student. I dont believe it.