Originally Posted by
Rigger
Wife has lodged a spouse visa 3 months ago, just tried to get another 12 month tourist visa and they would only give her 3 months. Hoping the spouse visa comes back soon.
would have cost atleast 15 grand now with the 6700 application fee, plus the 2 grand for the visa company. The rest would be flights and hotels.
Just a heads up ... there is no such beast, for a few years now, as a 'Spouse' Visa.
There is the Temporary, 2 year Partner Visa or the Permanent Partner Visa.
Partner visa (subclasses 820 and 801) Features
This visa allows the
spouse or de facto partner of an Australian citizen, permanent resident or eligible New Zealand citizen to live in Australia.
Relevant link is
here
No need to use a Visa Agent, the application is straight forward enough, you just have be methodical.
We applied 2 1/2 years ago, process took about 9 months.
Issued 2 days before Christmas.
Received the Permanent Partner Visa with the first application.
Heaps of hoops to jump through ... happy to help anyone faced with the same application.
Hey, my 500th post ... I like helping with Visas.
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