Family& Partener Visa
Partner visa (provisional – subclass 820) and permanent (subclass 801)
For people to stay in Australia with their partner, who are Australian citizen, Australian permanent resident or eligible New Zealand citizen. The partner visa options for you is Partner visa (provisional – subclass 820). If two years after you applied for the partner visa initially and the relationship is still genuine and continuing, a permanent visa (Subclass 801) may be granted.
Partner visa (provisional – Subclass 309) and permanent (Subclass 100)
Partner visa (provisional – Subclass 309) allows you to live in Australia if you are the spouse or defacto partner of an Australian citizen, a permanent resident, or an eligible New Zealand citizen.
It is the first step towards a permanent Partner visa (subclass 100). You have to be outside Australia, while you are applying for the Partner visa (provisional – Subclass 309) and also when your visa is granted. However, you can be inside Australia or offshore, when you are granted the Partner visa (subclass 100).
Prospective marriage visa (Subclass 300)
Prospective marriage visa is a visa granted to those individual, who wish to enter Australia to marry their fiance. A Prospective Marriage Visa is a temporary visa granted for a period of nine months. An individual must enter Australia, with an intention to marry their fiance within the stipulated period of nine months. Once you are married to your fiance you can apply for partner Visa.
Parent Visa
Parent visas allow parents to migrate to or stay in Australia permanently to settle with their children who are living in Australia. The application must be sponsored by a child who must be an Australian citizen, Australian permanent resident or an eligible New Zealand citizen, who is permanently resident and settled in Australia.
Parent visa is usually applied from overseas unless the applicant meets the definition of ‘aged parent’, an aged parent is a parent who is old enough to be granted an Australian age pension. For men this is currently 65 years of age and for women this is currently between 60 and 65 years of age, depending on their date of birth. Aged parent will usually be entitled to a bridging visa that will allow them to remain in Australia
Child Visa
Children who have a parent who is an Australian citizen, an Australian permanent resident, or an eligible New Zealand citizen, are able to live in Australia permanently on a Child Visa subclass 101 or 802.
In essence, each of these visas are the same – they both allow a child of an eligible parent sponsor to live in Australia indefinitely. The only difference is the location of the applicant when the application was lodged and decided on – 101 visa is for offshore applicants and 802 is for onshore.