COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE LÀ GÌ

I"m filling in an online application form for an Australian visa, và there is a step "Contact details" which asks for a "Country of residence", specifically "Usual country of residence" (see the screenshot below). There is a ? hint and it is not informative—here is the full text of that hint:

From the option list, select your usual country of residence.Bạn đã xem: Country of residence là gì

In a later step, you will be asked lớn provide your full residential address in this country.

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MY QUESTION:

What is really meant by "Country of residence" here? Is it the country of my citizenship or the country I currently reside in? Now I"m not in my country of citizenship. I reside in another country with an extended tourist visa. I have resided in that country for six months now và plan khổng lồ go to australia from that country. So what should I state: the country I"m residing in now or the country of my citizenship?

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Calchas 36k33 gold badges8585 silver badges143143 bronze badges asked Sep 14 "15 at 13:22

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Active Oldest Votes23Note the word "usual". If you"re on a tourist visa in another country for just 6 months, that"s not really where you NORMALLY reside. You"re considered a visitor in that country, not a resident.
In this case it"s likely lớn be your country of citizenship, if that"s where you usually live when you"re not diywkfbv.comling on this tourist visa.
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Mark Mayo♦Mark Mayo 153k9393 gold badges645645 silver badges14171417 bronze badges 8 | Show 3 more comments 20Your residence

What address would you give someone who intends to send you critical correspondence at some indefinite point in the future? Where bởi you have your mail shipped? Where do you receive your bills? What address does your most recently opened ngân hàng account have on it? What address bởi vì you put on your tax forms? What address is nearest the school you would send your kids khổng lồ (if you had any)? Etc.

An example

Residence: I live in Japan. My kids go khổng lồ school there, I have a permanent residential address, have a residency visa, etc.

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Visitor: I visit other countries for work for several months at a time. Sometimes I rent an apartment, sometimes I"m staying with people I know (at their residence), but I might leave at any time and am usually either on a work visa or tourist visa.

Citizen: I am an American citizen. I was born in Texas & my passport says so.

Where you live, where you are, & what place claims to lớn own you.

You can be in-between

For a few years I didn"t really have a residence. I hopped around a lot và didn"t have a single đô thị or even country I could call "home". If someone had, in an official capacity, asked me where I lived I would have still replied "Texas". Even though that wasn"t true in the sense that I hadn"t been there for a few years, it was more true than claiming some place I had only been staying for a few weeks or months và knew I wouldn"t be in much longer (especially on a tourist visa).

It is useful to cảnh báo that many official bureaucracies (and their documents) are particularly unfriendly khổng lồ people who don"t fit the "born, schooled, worked, died -- all in the same 10 miles" mould. This bureaucratic detail can significantly hinder your efforts to lớn get even the simplest things done in life, despite being a completely made-up problem. For that reason it is usually much less painful lớn use your place of birth or your family"s residence (if you have a family or parents) as a sort of administrative anchor rather than try to lớn explain the details of your situation.