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Australian partner visas: Home Affairs publishes percentile times by subclass and stage; many grants take a year or more
Last checked August 11, 2026.
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Australian partner visas: Home Affairs publishes percentile times by subclass and stage; many grants take a year or more
Updated Aug 11, 2026, 2:55 PM
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Australian partner visas: Home Affairs publishes percentile times by subclass and stage; many grants take a year or more
Updated Jul 18, 2026, 10:04 AM
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Reading the Australian partner visa figure
One application, two visas, years apart
A partner application buys two decisions with a single lodgement. The first grants a temporary visa; the second, assessed much later, grants permanence. Onshore that pair is the 820 then the 801; offshore it is the 309 then the 100. Nobody applies twice, and nobody pays twice, which is why the published figures split by subclass and by stage: the page above is describing four different queues that happen to share one application.
The second clock starts at lodgement, not at grant
Eligibility for the permanent stage is generally counted from the date the original combined application was lodged, not from the day the temporary visa arrived. Where the temporary stage itself took a long time, the permanent window can open close behind it, or already be open when the grant lands. Couples who were long established at lodgement, or who have a child together, may be granted both stages at once, which is why some timelines look impossibly short beside others.
Onshore and offshore are different situations, not different queues
An onshore applicant usually holds a bridging visa while waiting, so the wait is inconvenient rather than destabilising. An offshore applicant generally has to be outside Australia when the temporary visa is decided, which turns the same wait into a constraint on where a couple can live and when they can travel. Comparing an 820 timeline against a 309 one ignores that the second carries a location requirement the first does not.
What the relationship evidence is actually for
Both stages test whether the relationship is genuine and continuing, and the second stage tests it again over the intervening years, which surprises people who treat the temporary grant as the hard part. Evidence gathered as life happens, shared finances, correspondence, the ordinary record of two people living a life, is what the permanent stage asks for. Assembling it retrospectively at the two-year mark is the common source of stress on this route.
Complete timeline guide
Australian partner visa timeline: two stages, one big fee, and the waits nobody explains
How long Australian partner visas take in 2026: subclass 820/801 and 309/100 explained, bridging visas, the two-year permanent stage, and the evidence that decides cases.
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