Marriage while waiting for PMV 300 to be Granted
The Subclass 300, Prospective Marriage visa, allows you come to Australia to marry your prospective spouse and then apply for a Partner visa.
You are supposed to wait until the 300 visa is granted, and then enter Australia, BEFORE getting married.
However, what happens if you get married while waiting for that visa?
It seems that you transfer to the subclass 309 Offshore Partner Visa, according to this:
Change from subclass 300 to subclass 309 visa.
It seems there might be an advantage in this, as doing it that way, means that there is NO additional application fee, as there would be in the normal 300-820-801 route.
But, do you have sufficient evidence for the 309 visa?
The time of application will remain at the same date as the original subclass 300 application. Are your original relationship proofs sufficient to cover the different subclass 309 requirements?
That raises the question, if they are sufficient, why did you go for the 300 route and not the 309 originally?
But, I know that some people do switch from the 300 to a 309 successfully.
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Thanks heaps for that information.
Let’s hope our 300 Gets approved soon.. it’s been 10months with no contact from immigration. The Beirut embassy has been quieter these months – haven’t seen many 300s improved since before Christmas.
I am confident we Will have enough to prove for 309 , as a de-facto, as we will ge living together from June 2020.
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Just clarifying this -so if we say get married before we get the visa – will the ‘waiting time’ for the PR count from date of original visa 300 application?
1. applied april 2019
2. married june 2020 – visa changes to 309
3. PR counts from june 2020 or april 19?
I am considering this option as it has almost been a year since DOL for visa 300 and we opted to go down that path because originally we didn’t have much to prove for the 309, however now we do.
From what it says on the immigration website, it doesn’t seem to change the original application date.
I saw one who applied for the 300 in Sept 2018.
Changed to the 309 in Feb 2019.
309 Granted June 2019.
What would worry me is that the relationship proofs normally need to be at time of application.
I have seen 10 subclass 309’s, applied for in April 2019, being granted in January 2020.