
You apply for the temporary and the permanent partner visas together. Under the current requirements, partner visa and sponsorship applications can be lodged and assessed by the Department concurrently. Usually, you must hold a Partner visa ( subclass 8) or Dependent Child visa ( subclass 4). See the subclass 8visa for more information on married and de facto applicants. You must usually continue to be sponsored.
Sponsors do need to be ‘approved’ and in being ‘approved’ they have to satisfy the sponsorship requirements but this is not a decision that is taken separate to the visa application. So guess what readers? Taking the time to actually read the legislation and the explanatory notes and analyse how they will work pays off. This post is deliberately late because I didn’t want to be like every other migration agent out there writing a blog post scaring everyone into buying their services. See full list on partnervisaguide.
A whole heap of changes were made to the Migration Act and the amendments were to the Family Migration Programme of which partner visas are a part of. The key to the Family Migration Programme is the concept of ‘sponsorship’. All family member visas are sponsored whether they’re tourists, parents or in our case partners and spouses.
So the amendments were made to the requirements of sponsorship, namely around the sponsorship undertakings. (more…)