<human>: There's no doubt about it, we want to stick together. My partner and I did long-distance for about 7 months (I'm Canadian, he is Australian). I was finished university and just completed an internship, was free to do whatever my heart desired so I hopped on the plane and moved down under. My visa was pretty easy, I just got the working holiday visa and was good to go for a year, I got accepted to do school in Australia too so I thought I had it all planned out for when my visa expired. Come back on a student visa! However, this has recently fallen through, and I'm down to 3 months left until my visa expires and then I have to go home. No more grad school, no more Australia.

He says he wants to come with me. I'm 100% all for him coming with me, but it's more complicated than he's making it out to be (or I'm making it more complicated, I don't know). He still has a semester left of school here in Oz. He's thinking about doing his last semester abroad, which could potentially work. I know Canada has a working holiday visa he can apply for as well, but I'm thinking more long-term... we can't keep visa-hopping forever, eventually we're going to have to stick somewhere and get steady jobs (we're both pretty poor).

I'm reaching out to you, reddit, in case anyone else out there has been in this kind of situation. Different nationalities and homes literally around the globe from each other. How do these work? We don't want to go back to being LD, because let's face it, it sucks. Now that we've had a taste of living together, we want this to continue. What do we have to do? Does someone need to apply for permanent residency? I don't think I qualify for Australian PR and am unsure if I want to live here forever. I would rather be in Canada, however my partner has yet to visit. I just know I need to book a one-way ticket very soon, but don't know if that's going to be a single ticket, or two.

Please help?

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<bot>: Partner and I live literally across the world from each other. Have lived together for almost a year and want to continue, but my visa is expiring soon. What do?