The backlog of partner visa applications in the processing queue has decreased.
The immigration department’s partner visa statistics for the 2020/2021 year have just been released.
They show that in the 2020/2021 year:
- 72,376 partner visas were granted. This is by far the highest number of partner visa granted in a year, in the last ten years.
- 49,180 of these successful partner visa applicants were inside Australia when they applied for the visa.
- 23,196 of these successful partner visa applicants were outside Australia when they applied for the visa.
- In the ten years from 2011-12 to 2020-21, applicants in Australia at time of lodgement have made up an increasing number of the total migration program.
- Lodgements in the Family visa stream in 2020-21 were 9.4 per cent lower than in 2019-20.
- The number of partner visa applications in the queue to be processed at 30 June 2021 was 64,111. This was a decrease of 33.4 per cent compared to the number of partner visa applications in the queue to be processed at 30 June 2020, which was 96,361.
The 33% reduction in the size of the partner visa processing queue is welcome. However, the size of the processing queue – at 64,000 – is still too large. Many applicants are waiting too long for their partner visa application to be processed.
Hopefully the size of the partner visa processing queue will decrease again in the 2021/2022 year as a result of the significant allocation of partner visa places in the 2021/2022 migration program – time will tell.
Feel free to contact me if you would like to book a consultation for more information about anything mentioned here.
Regards.
Ross McDougall.
Solicitor / Immigration Lawyer
www.rpmlawyers.com.au
Tel: 08 8528 9187
This information is correct at December 21st, 2021. But, keep in mind that immigration law changes from time to time.
