An Australian Partner Visa allows a person who is not an Australian citizen or Australian Permanent Resident, but who has a partner who is an Australian citizen or Permanent Resident, to live and work in Australia, initially as a Temporary Resident, and ultimately as a Permanent Resident.

The Visa Application Charge (VAC is $8,850). There are additional charges for children or dependents.

If you have an Australian Citizen Partner and can demonstrate a genuine spouse or de facto relationship, you will be able to apply for a Subclass 309 Partner Visa.

Alternatively, if you are engaged to be married to an Australia Citizen or Permanent Resident, you may apply for a Prospective Marriage Visa, and travel to Australia to get married once it is granted. Then you can apply for an Onshore Partner Visa (Subclass 820).

A final option is, if you are already in Australia, you can apply for the Subclass 820 Visa with your Australian Citizen or Australian Permanent Resident Partner.

Yes, you can apply for a Subclass 820 Onshore Partner Visa, provided you and your sponsor meet all the relevant requirements.

Yes you can in certain circumstances, provided you have evidence that you have been in a de facto relationship with your new partner for more than 12 months and you otherwise meet the partner visa requirements.

In most cases your partner visa application will not be granted though until you provide the Department with proof of your divorce.

The DHA may grant a Partner Visa to a person whose marriage has not been legally terminated, where the visa applicant provides evidence that the divorce/annulment proceedings have commenced, and are likely to take a lengthy period of time to conclude.

Unfortunately, you can’t do that. Once your Partner Visa is granted though, you will be able to apply for Subclass 445 Dependent Child Visas for your children.

If you have the correct consents or family court orders in place, they will be able to migrate to Australia and be added to your Permanent Partner Visa application (Subclass 801).

If you live in Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, Queensland or the ACT, you can register your relationship (at Births, Deaths and Marriages).

Once you do this, the 12 month requirement fall away, but you must demonstrate that you have a genuine relationship moving forwards.

We would not advise you to do this. Partner Visa applications are very expensive and if you do not prepare it properly, or provide all the relevant information that is required, your application will be refused.

If this happens will you lose your application fee and if you lodged your visa in Australia, you will be barred from lodging another visa onshore.

We can assist you with a payment plan for our Professional Fees if you engage our services.

Please book a consultation, and we will assess your visa options.

Happily yes you are. All you need to do is take your letter of acknowledgement that you have lodged the visa application from the Department of Home Affairs to your nearest Medicare Office, and they should issue you with a Medicare card.

Provided you held a substantive visa (i.e. not a bridging visa) when you lodged your Partner Visa Application, the bridging visa that was issued to you should have no conditions, which means that you can work and study.