What does a Prospective Spouse Visa allow me to do?
This visa allows you to enter Australia and marry your Fiancé or Fiancée within the visa’s nine (9) month validity period. As a holder of a Prospective Spouse Visa you are permitted to live, work, study, and travel freely in and out of Australia.
- This is a valid visa for nine (9) months from the time it is granted.
- After making your initial entry in Australia, you may leave and re-enter Australia as many times as you wish before your visa expires (nine (9) months after visa grant).
- Your marriage may take place either in or outside Australia (after initial entry is made into Australia).
- You can work full time (full work rights) in Australia.
- You can apply for a Spouse Visa to remain in Australia after you marry your Fiancé or Fiancée and before the Prospective Spouse Visa expires.
- You can study, but you will not have access to government funding.
- You may use Australia’s medical expenses and hospital care assistance program, Medicare, but only if you are in Australia and have already applied for a Spouse Visa.