Change of citizenship while on Australian PR visa

ekhfaiz Sweden Advisor

Member since 23 September 2014

ekhfaizSweden Advisor16 December 2020 15:49:35

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Hello,

I wonder if anyone has been in a situation where they have changed their citizenship while having Australian PR on their previous passport.
If there are any problems in transferring the PR to the new country passport?

Regards
Faiz

jameschng Member

Member since 27 December 2020

jameschngMember01 February 2021 23:33:01

Hi,

If you have your immi account, you can update the new passport and keep the PR on the old passport to show them. As long as they update that in their system, you may not need to keep hard copy of the PR visa. They use VEVO which is an online system now

Hongkongbossy New member

Member since 24 January 2020

HongkongbossyNew member02 February 2021 02:00:38

Why would you change passport. You either want to live in the country you gained new passport for or the country you had pr for. It will not look good if changing allegiance half way through a process. I would expect that australia immigration would look down on you as your loyalty lays elsewhere. Unless you have a very very good reason for changing passport.

ekhfaiz Sweden Advisor

Member since 23 September 2014

ekhfaizSweden Advisor02 February 2021 05:22:11

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jameschng wrote:
Hi,

If you have your immi account, you can update the new passport and keep the PR on the old passport to show them. As long as they update that in their system, you may not need to keep hard copy of the PR visa. They use VEVO which is an online system now

Thanks, will do.

ekhfaiz Sweden Advisor

Member since 23 September 2014

ekhfaizSweden Advisor02 February 2021 05:25:29

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Hongkongbossy wrote:
Why would you change passport. You either want to live in the country you gained new passport for or the country you had pr for. It will not look good if changing allegiance half way through a process. I would expect that australia immigration would look down on you as your loyalty lays elsewhere. Unless you have a very very good reason for changing passport.

Australia allows dual citizenship so why would they look down on this? Yes there is a very good reason for this situation.