The DIBP has recently released the following information:
“We will be giving priority to low-risk applicants and those regarded by DIBP as fully front-end loaded with documentation that immediately satisfies Partner criteria. This will result in a departure from our usual chronological method of assessing applicants by month of lodgement. Therefore, you may find that some of your clients receive decisions ahead of others who lodged many months prior. This triaging approach has been endorsed by the Executive as an efficiency measure to identify partner applications which are potentially of the highest quality and lowest risk for visa places this programme year.”
Great news that low-risk, decision-ready applications are now going to be given priority as historically the processing time can be 16-20 months for this type of application.
If you would like assistance preparing your partner visa application, Simply Visas are specialists in this area and will ensure a smooth and straight forward application process.
