Our relationship has developed now to the point where we are making our wedding plans. We plan to be married in Thailand in January 2015. We will have the marriage registered in Thailand and ensure that it is recognized in Australia. We are at present ordering and gathering the required papers for registering our marriage and also all the paperwork for a partner visa application for Lapin. We will apply for a partner visa subclass 309 for Lapin as soon as we are married in January.
During our time apart we communicate on Facebook and Skype. We talk every night on skype for 2 to 3 hours and we will exchange a few messages throughout the day. Every week or so I will talk with Lapin’s parents and daughter and other members of her family and whenever she is with friends she always gives me a call so I can keep in touch with them all.
Lapin will include a sample of our communication with her visa application I have told her to only include a small sample as when I checked our skype record last it was 2035 pages, sending them all would be impractical.
Since I have returned from Singapore and told all of my family and friends of my plan to marry Lapin all have expressed a strong wish to meet her as soon as possible. Most of them have cautioned me that they would consider it improper for me to marry her before they have met her in person. Also some of my relatives have indicated that they would consider coming to Thailand for the wedding and I know that my 4 sisters and my daughter would all like to help Lapin with the planning.