Family Visas

PROSPECTIVE MARRIAGE VISA  – FIANCÉ

 
 
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This visa allows you to enter Australia and marry your intended fiancé within the visa’s nine month validity period. Your fiancé must be one of the following : an Australian citizen, an Australian permanent resident or an eligible New Zealand citizen.

The main purpose of applying for this visa is to allow you to come to Australia and then marry your intended spouse and live as husband and wife. You must genuinely intend to marry your fiancé. You must also genuinely intend to live with your fiancé as husband and wife.

You must be able to legally marry according to Australian law.

You must be of the opposite sex to your intended spouse. Same-sex couples are not eligible for this visa.

You must have met your intended spouse in person since turning 18 and know him or her personally. This must be the case even if it is an arranged marriage, you and your sponsor met as children and the marriage was arranged before you turned 18 years of age or you met on the internet (exchanging photographs is not evidence of having met in person).

APPLICANT OBLIGATIONS

If before your visa is granted you marry your fiancé, you will need to inform the department so that the department can change your application to that of a Partner visa.

If you are granted this visa, you must meet the following requirements:

  • Enter Australia on this visa before you marry your fiancé.
    Note: If you are granted this visa and then marry your fiancé before entering Australia on that visa, your visa may be cancelled.
  • Enter Australia by the specified initial entry date.
  • Marry your fiancé while this visa is still valid, which is for nine months after it has been granted. The marriage can take place either in or outside Australia provided you have entered Australia on this visa at least once before the marriage takes place.
  • Before this visa expires, lodge an application for a Partner visa in Australia to apply to remain permanently in Australia.
  • Immediately notify the office handling your application if you change address or your circumstances change. Such changes in circumstances include:
    • you have a child with your fiancé
    • after you marry your relationship ends.