JAJ Quite true - except your scenario requires 2 trips to NZ ( for what useful purpose only DIMIA knows!) & DIMIA are known to refuse the new visa application made outside Australia on the grounds that the person is (having returned to Australia on the visa with the 8503 condition) within the migration zone. So you can very easily blow your $1900 "application fee". Well that's not my intention. The point is, if you are honest or concerned about other ramifications of changing domicile, you are required to have an intention to reside in Australia permanently to be granted a migration visa. If you change your mind later nothing stops you leaving.
There are many children of Australin citizens who are not Australian by descent - mainly because it would involve relinquishing their primary citizenship. They have no work or study rights under the new visa regime unless they migrate permanently to Australia or relinquish their current citizenship.
The choice now is - visit Australia or migrate permanently to Australia. Up until last November there was a third inexpensive and uncomplicated option - reside in Australia temporarily and be granted a 2 year visa to do just that. DIMIA have *removed* a visa which until last November, permitted dependents to live and work in Australia temporarily. As discussed elsewhere in the thread, extended family who are members of the family unit are not eligible for a spouse visa. There is a clbutt of spouses who want to be more than visitors who do not want to migrate permanently to Australia (or pay thousands of dollars and wait years...) and until last November, they were allowed to do it for about $160 and a two day turn-around on processing.
