Subclass 820/801, 309/100 and 300 · charges current from 1 July 2026
Partner Visa Cost & Timeline Calculator
See what a partner visa actually costs after the July increase, when the permanent stage opens up, and whether your relationship is long enough to skip the two-year wait entirely. Free, and no email needed for your result.
Where will you be when you lodge?
This is the one thing that decides your subclass. It is a question of fact, not judgement, so it is the only pathway logic this tool applies.
How long have you been together?
This is where the timeline is really decided, and most cost calculators never ask it.
Count from when the relationship began, not from when you married or moved in. What matters is how long it has run at the date you lodge.
Who is included in the application?
One charge covers both stages, but every extra person carries their own.
$5,860 each.
$2,935 each.
When are you lodging?
Relationship length is measured on the day you lodge, so the date you choose can move your permanent stage by two years.
If you have already lodged, use the real date and the timeline runs from there.
One charge covers the provisional and the permanent stage. Add your details and the timeline builds alongside it.
Your timeline
The two-year wait, and how to avoid it
Government charge
Budget for these too
- Police checks from every country you have lived in for 12 months or more in the last 10 years, for every applicant over 16.
- Health examinations with a panel physician, for every applicant.
- Certified translations of anything not in English, including birth and marriage certificates.
- Document certification, and statutory declarations from people supporting your relationship claim.
- A registered migration agent or lawyer, if you use one. Partner applications are evidence-heavy and this is where most people choose to get help.
- Relationship registration, where your state or territory offers it.
Get your evidence checked before you spend $11,710
The charge is not refunded if the application is refused, and a partner refusal is expensive to fix. Send us your situation and a registered professional will tell you whether your relationship evidence is where it needs to be before you lodge.
Your dates and result are attached automatically, so you won't need to explain them again.
The rules and figures this calculator uses
Charges, from 1 July 2026
| Primary applicant | $11,710 |
| Additional applicant aged 18 or over | $5,860 |
| Additional applicant under 18 | $2,935 |
| What the primary charge was before 1 July 2026 | $9,365 |
A 25% rise. The same charge applies to the onshore 820/801, the offshore 309/100 and the subclass 300 prospective marriage visa. It is non-refundable in most circumstances, including where the application is refused or withdrawn.
One charge, two stages
- The partner visa is a single application covering a provisional visa and a permanent visa.
- There is no further application charge to move from the 820 to the 801, or the 309 to the 100.
- There is no separate sponsorship application fee, unlike employer-sponsored visas.
The two-year rule
- The permanent stage becomes assessable two years from the date the combined application was lodged. Not from the date the provisional visa was granted.
- It is an eligibility point, not a promise. Reaching it does not mean a decision arrives that day.
The long-term relationship concession
- If, at the date you lodged, the relationship had lasted three years, the two-year wait does not apply and both visas can be granted together.
- The threshold drops to two years where there is a dependent child of the relationship. A step-child does not count for this.
- Because it is measured at lodgement, the date you choose to lodge can change your permanent stage by around two years.
Indicative processing times
| Subclass 820, onshore provisional | 18 months (half), 32 months (most) |
| Subclass 309, offshore provisional | 17 months (half), 30 months (most) |
| Subclass 801 or 100, permanent | roughly 6 to 15 months after the eligibility point |
These are published indicative figures and they move month to month. Treat them as a guide, not a schedule. Complex cases and applications with incomplete evidence sit well outside them.
What this calculator deliberately does not do
It gives no view on eligibility
- Whether a relationship is genuine and continuing is the whole substance of a partner application, and it is decided on evidence by a person exercising judgement. No tool can tell you the answer, and one that claims to is misleading you.
- This calculator answers two narrow questions: what the government charge is, and how the published timeline runs. That is all.
Things with real discretion in them, which are out of scope
- Schedule 3, where an onshore applicant is unlawful at the time of application and needs a waiver on compelling reasons.
- Family violence provisions, which can allow the permanent stage to proceed after a relationship ends.
- Sponsor eligibility, including limits on how many people a person can sponsor, minimum intervals between sponsorships, and character requirements where there are convictions.
- Whether a de facto relationship meets the 12-month requirement, and whether registration or a child waives it.
- Whether a prospective marriage visa holder's later partner application attracts a reduced charge.
Also not covered
- Health and character requirements, and what happens when they are not met.
- Bridging visas, their conditions, and work and travel rights while you wait.
- What happens to the application if the relationship ends before the permanent stage.
Check these figures yourself
The charge changed on 1 July 2026 and processing times are updated monthly. Verify both before you budget or plan around a date.