For couples where one of you is an Australian citizen, permanent resident or eligible New Zealand citizen. You bring the story of your relationship; we bring partner visa practice going back to 2005.
Partner Visa consultation · 30 minutes · $99 AUD
Thirty minutes to know which partner visa, which order, and what it will take.
Registered Migration Agents since 2005 · Bravo Migration since 2008 · Fixed fee, paid at booking
Why a conversation first
The most expensive visa most couples will ever apply for
The application charge for a partner visa is $11,710, set on the day you lodge and not refunded if the application fails. Processing takes one to three years. The decision rests almost entirely on evidence of your relationship, and the evidence that matters is the evidence you start keeping now. Whether you lodge in Australia or from overseas, whether you marry first or apply as de facto, whether the sponsor has a history that needs addressing: each of those changes the application, the waiting time and sometimes the outcome. Thirty minutes with someone who has seen hundreds of these settles them.
What it covers
What we cover in thirty minutes
- Which visa: onshore (820 and 801), offshore (309 and 100) or Prospective Marriage (300), and why one fits your situation better than the others.
- Where to lodge and when: your location at lodgement decides the subclass, the bridging visa and your work rights while you wait.
- Your relationship evidence: what you already have across the four areas the Department assesses (financial, household, social, commitment), what is missing, and how to build it.
- The sponsor: eligibility, limits on sponsoring, character checks, and anything in the sponsor’s history that has to be dealt with up front.
- De facto couples: the twelve-month rule, registered relationships, and the exceptions.
- Costs and timing: the charge, the additional applicant charges for children, health and police checks, and the current processing times.
- Your next step: if you are ready, a fixed-fee proposal for us to prepare and lodge the whole application; if you are not, what to do in the meantime.
Bring to the call
Passports, your partner’s citizenship or residency evidence, your current visa details if you are in Australia, and a rough timeline of the relationship (when you met, moved in, married or registered).
Who books this
Three couples who book this
Together in Australia
You are here together on a student, graduate, working holiday or visitor visa, and your current visa has a date on it.
Apart, for now
One of you is in Australia and the other overseas, and you need to know whether to apply offshore, visit first or marry first.
Engaged
You want to know whether the Prospective Marriage visa or a partner visa after the wedding is the better route.
What is inside
How it works
About us
Who you will be speaking to
Bravo Migration was founded in Sydney in 2008 and is still run by the people who founded it. Our co-founder Erica Carneiro has been a Registered Migration Agent since 2005, among the longest continuously registered agents practising in Australia. Our agents are registered with the Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority and bound by its Code of Conduct, and some of them assess the Capstone examination that every new agent must pass. Since July 2026 we have also been the official migration services partner of IDP Australia.
The book is written in the first person, in plain English, because that is how Erica explains the law to clients. Where she gives an opinion rather than a rule, the book says so.
We’ve helped over 10,000+ people migrate to Australia
See what one of them has to say!
Booking
Book your Partner Visa consultation
$99AUD · 30 minutes · phone or video
Choose a time in your own time zone. Payment is taken at booking. You will receive a confirmation, the call details and the five-question form by email.
Fee includes GST. Available in Australia and overseas.
Not looking for a Partner Visa? Explore our other Australian visa services.
FAQ
We are both overseas. Can we still book?
Yes. The consultation is by phone or video and the offshore partner visa (309 and 100) is lodged from outside Australia.
Do you review our documents on the call?
No. We tell you what the Department will want and whether what you describe is likely to satisfy it. Document review is part of the Application Service.
What if we are not ready to apply?
Most couples are not, on the first call. You leave with the evidence list and the timing, and you come back when you are.
Can you tell us whether we will be approved?
No one can, and you should be wary of anyone who says they can. We can tell you what the requirements are and how your situation measures against them.
Is the fee refundable?
If you cancel more than 24 hours before the call, yes. Inside 24 hours we reschedule once at no charge.
