Spouse Visas, Geelong, Victoria, Australia International travel and the internet mean more and more people are forming relationships with people born overseas. As Australia is a great place to live it is natural to want your partner to settle here.
The Australian migration program provides a number of pathways - the right approach depends on:
 where you and your partner currently live
- the length of time you have known each other
- your partner’s nationality
- whether there are children
- your timeframe.
Applying for a spouse visa can be a two or three step process:
1. Prospective marriage (fiancé)
2. Provisional visa (spouse)
3. Permanent residency.
Note that the term spouse includes defacto and gay relationships. Complications can arise where your spouse has children from a previous relationship, or, due to distance, you have not been able to spend a lot of time together, or where there may be health or character issues.
At Opal we believe it is important to consider a strategy which takes into account your total circumstances, including whether other visa options are available and whether a visitor visa would be possible while the application is being processed.
"We first used Opal Immigration Services to apply for a Prospective Marriage Visa. Even though we were living in Syria they managed to organise and compile our application via email and post. It took the worry out of our hands and ended in success. Jane is now finalising our next application for a Spouse Visa."
Mwafak Alnazer and Sarah Altmann, Melbourne
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