在办理签证时，对于没有结婚的配偶，又需要证确实存在的关系，真的需要提供同居的证据吗？答案却是否定的。

又一个成功的案例（SZOXP v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2015] FCAFC 69 (11 June 2015))证明，没有结婚的配偶关系--"de facto", 他们是不需要先居住在一起。很多由于宗教或者团体信仰的原因，结婚前是不允许住在一起，法院Tribunal已经提出在移民法里面，判断"de facto"关系，是否同居，不是必要条件。

来看看移民法对“de facto”的定义：

De facto partners

(1) For the purposes of this Act, a person is the de facto partner of another person (whether of the same sex or a different sex) if, under subsection (2), the person is in a de facto relationship with the other person.

For the purposes of subsection (1), a person is ina de facto relationship with another person if theyare not in a married relationship (for the purposesof section 5F) with each other but:

(a) they have a mutual commitment to a shared life to the exclusion ofall others; and

(b) the relationship between them is genuine and continuing; and

(c) they:

(i) live together; or

(ii) do not live separately and apart on a permanent basis; and

(d) they are not related by family (see subsection (4)).

想清楚了解这个案例的请点击：

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/FCAFC/2015/69.html

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ma1958118/s5cb.html

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