Warning: this is a long read because I’ll be going through how much an Australian partner visa application costs – breaking down the expected and unexpected fees.
The usual suspects include the partner visa application fee itself but what about all the other costs for collecting and gathering the evidence that you’ll need? This post will give you an estimate so that you can budget accordingly because we all know that getting it wrong could cost you a fortune. Applying for an Australian Partner Visa (subclass 820/801) can be a costly affair, but only quite recently is it becoming a little bit too out of reach for some people. On January 1st 2015, the Department of Border Protection and Immigration, quite arbitrarily, increased the visa application fees for partner visas. Not only was this strongly opposed to by everyone in the profession and prospective applicants, it also made no sense. The rationale was that the Department was increasing its immigration monitoring exercises such as increased raids, increased monitoring of sponsors etc and in order to fund those exercises, someone had to pay. How or why they came to increase prices for partner visas is seemingly a mystery and unfortunately non-contestable. The Department does what it wants, when it wants. For a more indepth look at how the prices have increased over the last 10 years, have a look at the infographic I whipped up. Read full article here: How much does an Australian partner visa cost? |
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