Well, if marriage is often the solution to immigration problems, there is a delay and you might not be fully entitled to the dual nationality until after 6 months.
What you have to do before to enhance your chances, is to get in Australia a certificate showing a.s.ap. that you live already together (a partnership certificate exists in some countries, I do not know about Australia - but maybe things like commun bills might be enough?).
Anyway, remember that at the beginning, if you go immediatly after you marriage to Spain, you might have a delay before to get the Spanish nationality.

No there is no relation. You will have the residence visa because you are married.

It gives you rights for the health care system, but also duty for taxe etc... better to ask more information to the Spanish consulate I'm afraid.

Don't forget that after being married to a Spanish person, you will be entitled to becoming Spanish.

Definitly in Australia before to leave, as it will make things easier at the entry in Spain, but papers will have to be sent to Spain to be validated before they grant you for the Spanish citizenship.

Don't know... (re criminal etc... Europe is fortunatly not like the States I hope! )

You can also check:
<http://www.elanit.com/immediacy/main.asp?page=2411>

<http://www.workpermit.com/spain/spain.htm>

And do not forget the main thing: Go to the Spanish Consulate.

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Hi Coyan,

First of all, thank you very much for your participation to the EasyExpat discussions. As you said you deal with EU Immigration Cases, I am sure you will be able to give relevant information to expatriate visitors.

Regarding the information on the 6 months period, I was talking about the necessary delay for the admin procedure (from giving the forms to getting the certificate) which depends on the countries of course. Some of them might take more or less time but that information was confirmed by the French ambassy in London.

The difference you are talking about is about being married and asking for the same citizenship as the partner, or following the standard immigration procedure whatever is your nationality. In UK, for a naturalization it is already enough to have lived five years in Great Britain, but in Italy you will have to wait 10 years and in France foreigners can get the french citizenship one year after they have married a native... :headscratch:

However I know that those things are very complicated, law is changing very often and that's the reason why we always strongly advise people to go to the consulate/ambassy before any step forward.
;-)

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