How long does a partner visa take in Australia? What drives processing times, the timeline from lodgement to grant, and how to avoid delays. Book a call.
A partner visa in Australia usually takes many months, and often more than a year, from lodgement to the grant of the temporary visa, and the permanent stage comes later on top of that. The partner visa is a two-stage visa, so the temporary stage (onshore subclass 820, offshore subclass 309) is decided first, and the permanent stage (subclass 801 or 100) is usually considered around two years after you lodged. The Department of Home Affairs publishes indicative processing times for each stage, and those figures move with demand and with how complete your application is. The single biggest thing that keeps your wait as short as possible is lodging a decision-ready application, one with strong relationship evidence and every check done, so the case officer doesn’t have to keep coming back to you. So the honest answer is that it takes many months, it depends heavily on your evidence and circumstances, and a well-prepared application is the fastest one.
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