How Australian Immigration Processes Onshore Partner Visa Applications

The Sequence of Events:

When the partner visa applicant lodges their online (onshore) partner visa application, they are actually applying for three different visas at thre same time, in the one application.

The one application applies for:

A Bridging Visa A (BVA)

A Subclass 820 (temporary) partner visa

A Subclass 801 (permanent) partner visa.

(These three visa applications are automatically combined)

After the partner visa applications have been lodged, the partner visa sponsor then lodges their:

Partner visa sponsorship application.

The partner visa sponsorship application can only be lodged after, and not before, the partner visa applicant lodges their applications.

Immigration’s processing of these lodged applications then proceeds like this:

The BVA application is processed and decided first.

The Visa sponsorship application is processed and decided second.

The subclass 820 (temporary) partner visa application is then processed and decided.

Two years after the date that the partner visa applicant applies for the partner visas (and presuming that their temporary partner visa has been granted within that two year period), Immigration will contact the applicant and request that they lodge new forms, Statutory Declarations, witness statements, relationship evidence, etc. so that immigration can process their subclass 801 permanent partner visa application.

Basically, this is immigration’s detailed check that the relationship is still genuine and continuing before the permanent partner visa is processed and – all going well – granted.

Feel free to contact me if you would like to book a consultation for more information about anything mentioned here.

Regards.

Ross McDougall.

Immigration Lawyer & Solicitor.