The Prospective Marriage Visa allows you to travel to Australia to marry with your fiancé(e) who must be an Australian Permanent Resident, Australian Citizen or eligible New Zealand citizen. You must marry with your fiancé(e) within 9 months of visa grant. Later, you can apply for Partner Visa for permanent residence.
You sponsor also need to satisfy certain criteria.
After marrying your prospective spouse, you can apply for permanent residence visa.
Are you a relative of an Australian citizen or permanent resident and looking for information about migration in one of the following categories?
‘Capping and Queueing’ is a process implemented by the immigration department of Australia for granting some of family category visas e.g. parent visa. Immigration department determines certain number of visas for each financial year for some visa and after reaching that number of visa grant, other pending applications are queued to be processed next year.
You may apply partner visa now if you satisfy all other criteria. Marriage is just one of the criteria need to be satisfied.
You may or you may not. There are many other circumstances and criteria need to be considered. Each case requires case-to-case advise.
Sponsorship is mandatory for ‘Parents Visa’ application; hence it does not create any specific additional advantage. Balance of Family test is also compulsory to be satisfied.