Live with your partner happily ever in Australia. The Spouse Visa as well as the Partner Visa is extended by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection to the specific categories (mentioned in this section) of potential immigrants. The Spouse Visa or Partner Visa is available to those who are either married to or in a De Facto Relationship with any of the below :

• An Australian citizen
• An Australian Permanent Resident
• An eligible New Zealand citizen

Here, it is very important to note that the applicant must be residing outside of Australia when applying for either Spouse Visa or the Partner Visa. In technical terms, Australia’s Spouse Visa or the Partner Visa is referred to as the Partner (Provisional) Visa (Subclass 309) and Partner (Migrant) Visa (Subclass 100). In more simple terms, the above cited Visas allow or enable the spouse or the de facto partner of an Australian citizen, a Permanent Australian Resident as well as an Eligible New Zealand citizen to travel to and live in Australia. That is, after meeting all the visa related procedures and conditions duly and to the one hundred per cent satisfaction of the immigration authorities here in Australia.

In more simple terms, the above cited Visas allow or enable the spouse or the de facto partner of an Australian citizen, a Permanent Australian Resident as well as an Eligible New Zealand citizen to travel to and live in Australia. That is, after meeting all the visa related procedures and conditions duly and to the one hundred per cent satisfaction of the immigration authorities here in Australia.

Process Of Partner Visa

The application for the Partner (Provisional) Visa (Subclass 309) is the first stage.

Once you have received the Provisional or the Temporary Visa, you become eligible to apply for the Partner (Migrant) Visa (Subclass 100) and try for a long-term Australian residence and live with your partner in Australia.

You submit only one visa application for the Provisional or the Migrant visas and thereby also get to pay only once

Your application is processed in two stages, and that too, with a time period of two years in between the stages

You must be residing outside of Australia, when applying for both the Partner (Provisional) Visa (Subclass 309) and Partner (Migrant) Visa (Subclass 100)

Though, you are allowed to be either outside or inside Australia when applying for the Partner (Migrant) Visa (Subclass 100)

You can obtain additional information from the Partner Migration booklet which is very much available online

Conditions For subclass 864:

• Though, you are allowed to be either outside or inside Australia when applying for the Partner (Migrant) Visa (Subclass 100)

• Most important is to meet the balance of family test

The Balance of Family Test requirements:

• Half of your children must live permanently in Australia.
• More of your children live permanently in Australia than in any other country.