Prospective Marriage (Fiancé) Visa to Australia

Applicants for a prospective marriage [fiancé(e)] visa need to be engaged to marry their sponsor. The marriage must take place after the applicant's first entry to Australia and before the visa expires. The sponsor must be an Australian citizen, Australian permanent resident or eligible New Zealand citizen.

Visa requirements include:

• A genuine relationship requirement that you actually intend to marry the fiancé within maximum time frame of nine months from the date the visa is granted.
• Intend to live with your partner as their spouse;
• That you have met and are personally known to each other.
• The applicant and the sponsor are both over the age of 18 years unless one or both are due to turn 18 before the marriage takes place, or an Australian judge or magistrate makes an order under section 12 of the Marriage Act 1961 allowing the marriage to take place.

The application process requires that your application for a prospective marriage fiancé(e) visa must be lodged outside Australia and you must be outside Australia when you apply.

People applying under the prospective marriage fiancé(e) category go through a three-stage process. The process involves:

• Applying for a prospective marriage temporary visa at the first stage, 
• A spouse temporary at the second visa and
• Spouse permanent visa at the third stage.

This application is a great deal of work and expense.

For details on Prospective Marriage Fiancé Visa to Australia, click here. 

For details regarding Sponsorship, click here.

ASSISTANCE WITH THIS VISA OR OTHER VISAS?

This is a complicated visa application. Each visa candidate must meet the demanding requirements of the visa application. The help of a migration agent is very strongly advised. Here is our general link to the Migration Agents Registration Authority so that you can better understand what migration agents do with regard to visas, their duties and your rights in regard to Agents’ work in Australian visas and Citizenship.