The numbers of Partner Visa Grants during the last three months of the 2019-20 year have appeared to drop substantially, when hearing reports of some Partner Visa applicants who have been waiting a long time.
The actual numbers of subclass 300, 309, 100, 820 and 801 grants has been:
24,910 … Read the rest
There are quite a number of people, especially Partner Visa applicants and Prospective Marriage Visa holders and applicants, that are affected by the COVID-19 travel ban on entering Australia.
Some of these have applied for an exemption to the travel ban, and many have been successful, albeit not always at … Read the rest
In 2016 the Migrations Regulations Act was amended to require all Australian sponsors of partner visas to provide a police certificate.
This amendment allows the Department to share the sponsor’s relevant offences with the applicant, so they can decide whether to … Read the rest
An applicant for a partner visa to Australia has to select their relationship status from a few options.
If the applicant is married, it is simple; just select “Married”.
However, for those couples that are not married, some are undecided about choosing between defacto or engaged.
De-facto, de facto or … Read the rest
Processing times for the subclass 309 Australian Partner Visa applications from Manila, Philippines.
In the first ten months of the 2019/20 year, Manila processed 168 Subclass 309 visas.
The median processing time for this visa group was 607 days.
Processing times for the subclass 309 Australian Partner Visa applications from London, United Kingdom.
In the first ten months of the 2019/20 year, London processed 745 Subclass 309 visas.
The median processing time for this visa group was 293 days.
The first 25% took up to 265 days.
The next … Read the rest
Processing times for the subclass 309 Australian Partner Visa applications from India.
In the first ten months of the 2019/20 year, New Delhi processed 1,898 Subclass 309 visas
The median processing time for this visa group was 401 days.
According to an SBS article, Partner visas are taking longer than usual to finalize during this pandemic, with the current timeline to finalize an offshore partner visa (309) is 12 to 18 months.
But how accurate are those figures, and are they really worse than before?
This is from the … Read the rest
The official eligibility time to apply for the stage 2 ‘Permanent’ part of the partner visa (subclass 100 or 801) is 24 months after applying for stage 1, (subclass 309 or 820).
However, you are allowed to begin … Read the rest
Many people have been asking about how the COVID-19 coronavirus has been affecting Australian visa grants, so I have compared the same time periods for 2019 and 2020, for the numbers of grants that I have seen notified … Read the rest
