Median processing times for Partner Visa applications finalised in September 2023.
- Subclass 300: 11 months, but 10% took over 33 months.
- Subclass 309: 10 months, but 10% took over 23 months.
- Subclass 100: 15 months, but 10% took over 27 months.
- Subclass 820: 5 months, but 10% took over 27 months.
- Subclass 801: 9 months, but 10% took over 17 months.
- Subclass 461: 46 days, but 10% took over 8 months.
Median means that half took under that time, and half took longer than that time.
Visa applications may take longer to process if information required for the visa is incomplete or missing, at the time of application.
Subclass 100 and 801 processing times are normally calculated from 24 months after the 309 and 820 applications were submitted.
Processing time data does not include applications previously impacted by Ministerial Direction 80.
Ministerial Direction 80 was a policy that placed all family visa applications, sponsored by people who originally arrived in Australia by boat, at the back of the visa processing queue, meaning those applications were simply never processed.
Ministerial Direction 80 was revoked and replaced with Ministerial Direction 102 in February 2023.
The processing priorities (with highest priority first) as outlined in Ministerial Direction 102 are below.
- family migration applications that have been subject to ministerial intervention.
- applications by a partner or a dependent child.
- applications by an orphan relative.
- applications by a contributory parent or a contributory aged parent.
- applications by a carer.
- applications by a parent, aged parent, remaining relative or aged dependant relative.
Family migration visas subject to processing priority directions.
The following family migration visas are subject to Ministerial Directions outlining the processing priority order:
- 100 – Partner.
- 101 – Child .
- 102 –Adoption.
- 103 – Parent .
- 114 – Aged Dependent Relative .
- 115 – Remaining Relative .
- 116 – Carer .
- 117 – Orphan Relative .
- 143 – Contributory Parent.
- 173 – Contributory Parent (Temporary).
- 300 – Prospective Marriage (Temporary).
- 309 – Partner (Provisional).
- 445 – Dependent Child.
- 801 – Partner (Permanent).</li
- 802 – Child .
- 804 – Aged Parent.
- 820 – Partner (Temporary).
- 835 – Remaining Relative .
- 836 – Carer .
- 837 – Orphan Relative .
- 838 – Aged Dependent Relative.
- 864 – Contributory Aged Parent.
- 884 – Contributory Aged Parent (Temporary).
Source (Nov 2023):
immi.homeaffairs.gov.au
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