What would you do if you have to bring your family, a partner, or a parent, to Australia after obtaining the citizenship of the country? You need not worry as there are several types of family-sponsored visas for Australia available for such a scenario. The kind of visa required for you will hinge upon the relationship shared with the person, whether you want them to live in Australia temporarily or permanently, and your residential status in Australia. This article strives to highlight the norms for bringing family members or that special person to Australia.
Visas for partners
There are two separate types of visas for sponsoring spouses or important people as family members to Australia. These are the partner visa and the prospective marriage visa.
Temporary Partner Visa
The partner visas are of two types– one for people staying outside of Australia, and the other for people presently staying in Australia. You must show that you are in a true alliance with your partner. You could either be legally married or in a de facto relationship. As for the de facto relationship, you must prove that the relationship is in existence for at least twelve months. To begin with, these visas are meant only for two years. After staying for two years in Australia on a provisional partner visa, you are required to apply for a permanent migrant partner visa, and then only you can reside in Australia permanently.
Prospective Marriage Visa
If you have not married your partner and you would like him or her to come to Australia to get married, you have the option of applying for a prospective marriage visa. After obtaining the same, your fiancé gets the right to live and work in Australia for nine months. After the end of this period, they have to apply for a partner visa to stay in Australia. The expense involved in applying for a partner visa post holding a prospective marriage visa is very less compared to applying for the partner visa straight away.
Options to bring parents or other relatives to Australia
If you want to bring your relatives or an old parent through visa to Australia, then there are several options for the same as well. Certain visas, particularly for aged-dependent relatives, are quite time-consuming as well. This can be attributed to the caps on the number of visas to be granted annually in Australia. If you wish to bring your parents to Australia and have the monetary strength for the same, then you can acquire visas for them swiftly by sponsoring them on a contributory visa. In certain visas to bring parents to Australia a balance of family test has to be met. This warrants at least half of the parent’s children, including any step-children, to live in Australia or that there should be more children staying in Australia than in any other single country. With regard to the partner visas, such visas need the applicant to go through a character test and a health check successfully.
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We are always at your service throughout the whole visa process. As a family or partner visa specialist, it is our duty to ensure there are no hiccups in the entire procedure.
These apart we can wholly assist you in other kinds of visas such as Investor Retirement visa, general skilled migration visa, visitor visa, etc.
