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Thanks very much for that.  I thought it would be better to be safe than sorry and to ask.

After some more reading today I'm now a bi worried that I'm doing the right thing...  A little background about us - I met her about 4 years ago and I've travelled back to see her about 10 or more times over those years.  She has come here to Australia on short holidays for the last 2 years in a row and we had no troubles getting the tourist visa for that.  We've also had a holiday together around Asia.

Now it's time for her to make the move here permanently.  We will be living together and we intend to get married and get on with our lives.  We've waited this long as she has been finishing off study in Bangkok for the last 3 years.

On the DIAC website under the section of 'Evidence of Genuine and Continuing Relationship', it has the following point:

• any periods of separation (when and why the separation occurred, for how long and how you maintained your relationship during the period of separation

Now, we spend most of our time apart, but call each other on a daily basis and I have all the evidence to support this (~3 hours of phone logs per day + emails, etc).


Is this a problem that our relationship has been mostly long distance like this?  Is it 'easier' to get married over there and apply for a visa to come here?

I'll try and see if she gets it.  She's announced that she'll be resigning and will finish up at the end of the week.  Hope she can get it.  There's a spot on the form for details of previous employee where we can write in the job and note down the resignation date, which is a lot better than simply ticking UNEMPLOYED I guess.

We'll try for a letter but I don't know if the employer will be forthcoming with it.

I'm not sure, I guess that could be it...  Australian websites state 'Implanon® costs $5 - $25 every three years plus the cost of insertion by your doctor.'  No indication of whether it's subsidised or not.

Email back from BNH states that it will be 12,500 baht + 200 hospital service fee.  Do you think a government run hospital would be significantly cheaper?

So we've made a booking at Samitivej, they say it will be about 10,000 baht all up.  I think 8,000 baht for the Implanon and then some extra for consultation I suppose.

This still seems quite expensive to me.  Way over double for what it would cost to have done in Australia.

I'll try and find out the price at BNH.

Thanks girls.  We'll give the Samitvej Women's Clinic a go next.  We had been to Burmrungrad before for a simple operation and I thought the price was very reasonable!  It was about the cost of a visit to a GP in Australia and we came out very pleased.

I don't know what went on for this Implanon visit.  Maybe the doctor thought she wanted 'implants'??