Thank you for your reply. Mike Bibby, as you said "As long as you have a permanant address where you get your mail it doesnot matter ". Does this mean all my correspondence should be done from my permanent address i.e. Nepal or I can receive relevent documents at Melbourne itself? And another thing is...can I apply now from Nepal (as I am in Nepal now) and later ask my processing to be transfered to Austraila as I reach there? Or you suggest me to start the application process from Australia itself?