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Partner visa guidance online is a maze of copies of copies, much of it years out of date. These guides go back to the legislation and the published sources, quote them, and say plainly which facts are confirmed and which are commonly documented.
The four aspects
The four relationship aspects in Australian partner visa law
What the Migration Regulations actually say about the financial, household, social and commitment aspects of a relationship — quoted from the current legislation, not paraphrased.
12 min read
Financial evidence for an Australian partner visa
The five financial sub-elements named in the Migration Regulations, and the documents applicants commonly organise under each — including couples who keep their finances separate.
14 min read
Household evidence: more than two names at one address
The regulation names three things under “the nature of the household”, and one of them is how you split the housework. What that means for the documents applicants commonly assemble.
11 min read
Social evidence: what people outside the relationship see
The social aspect asks whether other people recognise you as a couple. That makes third-party material do the work photographs of the two of you cannot.
11 min read
Commitment evidence: the aspect with no obvious paperwork
The fourth aspect covers duration, time lived together, companionship and whether the relationship is seen as long-term. The documents that carry it are ones most couples already have.
10 min read
The relationship statement, and why its structure is not arbitrary
Every published guide describes roughly the same statement structure. The reason is that it traces directly to the four matters the Migration Regulations name.
10 min read
Forms
Form 888: what changed, and who can be a witness
Form 888 stopped being a statutory declaration in July 2023, which makes most older guidance wrong about how it must be signed. What the current guidance documents, and what it doesn't.
9 min read
Form 80: what it is, and when it turns up
A long personal-history questionnaire that is not part of the standard partner visa document set, and arrives when the Department asks for it.
6 min read
Eligibility, fees and lodging
The 12-month de facto rule, and the three exceptions
De facto partner visa applicants face a 12-month relationship requirement. The Regulations name three circumstances in which it does not apply — quoted from the current text.
7 min read
When the permanent stage can be decided (801 and 100)
The two-year wait runs from the date the application was made, not from when the temporary visa was granted. And for some couples it does not apply at all.
9 min read
What an Australian partner visa costs
The application charges for subclasses 820/801, 309/100 and 300, quoted from Schedule 1 of the Migration Regulations — including the concession most fee pages leave out.
8 min read
ImmiAccount upload limits for partner visa applications
The document count, per-file size and format constraints that shape how partner visa evidence has to be assembled — and why combining documents is the documented approach.
8 min read
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