820 Visa Partner (Onshore)

Visa overview

820 visa lets the de facto partner or spouse of an Australian citizen, Australian permanent resident, or eligible New Zealand citizen live in Australia temporarily. Applicant must be onshore when 820 visa is applied. PR pathway: subclass 820 visa holders can apply for permanent partner visa subclass 801; 2 years after the lodgment date of 820.

Sponsor’s eligibility: 

• The sponsor must be 18 years and above

• Must be an Australian Citizen, Australian Permanent Resident, or eligible New Zealand Citizen

• Sponsors must not have registrable offences. 

Sponsorship limitation: 

Sponsors may only submit 2 sponsorship applications in their lifetime. There must be a 5 or more year gap between sponsorship applications. 

 There are limitations on sponsorship for sponsors that were granted a Subclass 300 Prospective Marriage visa, a Partner visa, a Contributory Parent visa, or a Subclass 204 Women At Risk visa within the last 5 years. 

 Contact us for more details in relation to limitations on sponsorship.

Long term relationship

If at the time you apply, you have been in a long term relationship with your partner (3 years living together or have a child together and living together for 2 years), your permanent Partner visa (subclass 801) visa may be granted immediately after the temporary Partner visa (subclass 820) visa.

Our Services

We are well-known to have an extremely high success rate when it comes to Partner Visa applications by providing these services: 

• Upon signing up, we will be with you every step of the way by sending you the instructions and providing sample documents

• Guiding you in gathering evidence and reviewing your documents needed to prove the 4 aspects – social, financial, nature of household and nature of commitment

• We will also prepare a legal submission detailing the nature of your relationship and how you would meet the legal requirements for the visa application

• We will make sure that the lodgment of the visa will not have any issues and liaise with the department of immigration for any of their request until the visa grant

• We can also extend our assistance with complex issues such as visa refusals, AAT appeals etc.

Partner visas can be very complex and our team at Think Visa is experienced in complex cases as follows:

• Visa refusal or visa cancellation history from Australia or any other country;

• Relationship with sponsoring Australian spouse/partner ceased due to family violence committed by the sponsor;

• Relationship with sponsoring Australian spouse/partner ceased and has parental responsibility for a child;

• Sponsoring Australian spouse/partner passed away before obtaining a permanent partner visa;

• Sponsoring Australian spouse/partner who previously married unable to complete divorce proceeding before sponsoring new partner;

• De facto relationship of fewer than 12 months.

• Character issues e.g. criminal charge history.

Other relevant information

Australian Citizenship
Australian Permanent Residency
Partner Visa Subclass 801
Medicare
Partner Visas
Subclass 300 Prospective Marriage visa