Partner and Family Migration

Whiteley Ironside & Shillington provides expert legal services in Migration Law.

If you wish to continue your life with your partner in Australia, we can help you stay together. We will prepare the best evidence to prove that you are in a genuine and ongoing relationship.

Partner and family migration is what we do best. We have won a lot of partner visa grants including the complicated ones. Complicated partner visas that we have won include illegal immigrants; people with criminal records or significant health issues; people who are legally married to an ex-partner; people in short-term relationships; and couples who do not live together.

There are three types of partner visas available.

  1. Prospective marriage visa (subclass 300)

  2. Onshore partner visa (subclass 820/801)

  3. Offshore partner visa (subclass 309/100).

Prospective Marriage Visa

If you are in a long-distance relationship and want to be together at last, this visa may be for you. To apply for this visa, the migrant partner must be outside of Australia at the time of application (offshore). Once the visa is granted, the migrant is allowed to live and work in Australia. You will need to get married within a specific timeframe. Once the migrant partner arrives in Australia, we will help you apply for the onshore permanent residency partner visa to continue your relationship in Australia.

820/801 Partner Visa

This visa is for you if you are starting or continuing your relationship in Australia. The migrant is permitted to live and work in Australia throughout the processing period which is currently between 6 and 37 months. We will guide you through the process and we prepare decision-ready applications, including drafting detailed legal evidence to help achieve the best and quickest outcome. There are two stages: the temporary 820 stage and the permanent 801 stage.

309/100 Partner Visa

This visa is also an option if you are in a long-distance relationship. Compared to the prospective marriage visa, this visa has more relationship evidence requirements, and we will assist you in preparing this evidence. The migrant must be outside of Australia (offshore) at the time of application and when the Department makes a decision. The migrant can come to Australia during the processing time if they are eligible for other visas. The current processing times are between 4 and 30 months. We will help you apply for another visa to help you continue to grow your relationship during this time. There are two stages: the temporary 309 stage and the permanent 100 stage.

Get in Touch

Contact the experts at Whiteley Ironside & Shillington Lawyers for Migration Law issues across Orange, Bathurst, Molong, Dubbo, and Central West NSW. Contact our office today on 02 6362 1866 to schedule a meeting with the one of our migration law experts.

Our Migration Law experience includes:

  • acting for employer and employees in Orange’s restaurant industry to secure skilled employment migration with a pathway to permanent residency;

  • successfully granted a second skilled migrant visa for a diesel engineer, notwithstanding the applicant was older than 45 years;

  • successfully acting for a medical professional to overturn a work restriction condition, applying for permanent residency, allowing our client to live and work in Australia;

  • acting for a 190 skilled visa applicant and their family working to work in agricultural science;

  • acting for an applicant in successful partner visa, despite a history of overstay and breach of conditions;

  • drafting submissions and obtaining a waiver of section 48 (3-year ban) compassionate and compelling circumstances;

  • acting in the successful grant of a grant of partner visa whilst waiting for the appeal on an unrelated visa application, notwithstanding partner living overseas;

  • acting in the successful grant of a partner visa for couple who were not married or de facto at the time of application based on extensive submissions and evidence of religious beliefs;

  • obtaining permanent residency through the partner visa for a local health professional within 12 days, overcoming the section 48 bar they were subject to;

  • successfully petitioning for a grant of a partner visa despite the sponsor having a past criminal record;

  • providing compelling legal submissions in response to a character concern arising from a misunderstanding; and

  • obtaining work rights on a Bridging Visa E allowing the migrant to stay in Australia and support his Australian-born child whilst awaiting the outcome of a cancellation appeal.

Migration Lawyers

Migration Law

Whiteley Ironside & Shillington can assist with the following practices areas of Migration Law:

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  • Thank you very much for your help, guidance, and support in getting my wife's visa grant.

    It is nice to see these days. Thank you again for your hard work and working extra hard to ensure our success. Vanessa- A special thank you for all your technical help over the years. I know it's your job, but it's my life- and I feel you went above and beyond, and I just want to express my appreciation. You made me feel confident and took away my worries, also helped explain each stage of the process. You are very professional but easy going in day-to-day emails.

    Vanessa is the best migration solicitor in Australia I believe.

    Mudassir Rehman

  • Many thanks Vanessa for helping me professionally in my partner visa grant.

    You made my dream come true and I can live with my husband here in Australia. I couldn't expect that my visa grant process would be so quicker. I found Vanessa very kind, supportive, and professional and several other qualities made her capable to be a perfect immigration lawyer.

    I would highly recommend everyone who is in stress regarding visa matters.

    Aya Rehman

  • I would recommend this process with Vanessa to anyone needing visa assistance.

    I came to Vanessa for help with my Partner Visa application and I can’t thank her and the team enough for how prompt, helpful and insightful they all are. Turning something extremely stressful into something stress free and manageable!

    Abbie Legge

  • They are amazing!

    Vanessa has helped me so much with all my visa work! I could not have done this alone. Definitely the best! Great advice and communication throughout. I cannot recommend Vanessa enough.

    Jazmin Finch

  • Highly recommended!

    My husband and I used Whiteley Ironside & Shillington Migration Services for our recent application for an Australian Partner Visa. Vanessa and the team supported us through the application process and I cannot fault the service. They were extremely helpful from start to finish and made what could have been a very difficult/confusing process simple and easy! And stage 1 of the visa was approved much quicker than we anticipated.

    Bec Louise

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