Can my non-Australian spouse enter the Australian embassy with me?
I'm an Australian citizen living in the US1 and I need to renew my Australian passport. As of July 1st 2015 I need to visit an Australian embassy2 in person in order to complete this task.
However my spouse is an American citizen and I want to know if she can accompany me into the Australian embassy and wait with me while my passport application is processed. Or will she have to have to wait outside?
In before all of the "Expats" comments :D, I already asked about this question's validity on Meta. See Is this a travel or expats question?
I will be visiting the embassy in DC for which there are no pre-booked appointments and applications are only accepted on a walk-in basis. The embassy site indicates that a typical wait time at this location is around 30 minutes (which is probably a question for another day)
Best Answer
It's impossible for us to say as it depends a great deal on the discretion of the security staff.
The Australian embassy is rarely under the type of security alerts that Israeli or American embassies face, but there are times when they for any number of reasons might want to restrict visitors to strictly those with business before them. Sometimes they're just so busy that they don't have enough seating, so they restrict people then too.
You should plan on going with your spouse and they can let your spouse in - mazel tov. But just in case they won't, you should have already checked to see which cafes are nearby and made plans to meet your spouse there later on.
This also has the advantage that if you had any impermissible items on your body (cellphones with cameras; pocketknives; handgun; polonium; etc.), your spouse is already ready to take them and hold them at the cafe for you.
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