Australian Immigration

Australia has moved to do away with bias of same-sex partners. This includes unfairness in Australia's migration program.

The migration program let Australian citizens, Australian permanent residents and entitled New Zealand citizens to moreover sponsor their same-sex partner to migrate to Australia or for citizens of additional countries to comprise their same gender partner in most provisional and permanent visas applications.

Same-sex partners are now measured actual Partner couples. De facto Partner couples must show proof of a genuine and continuing relationship of 12 months or more.

There are visas alternatives which can be applied for both on-shore (within Australia) or off-shore (overseas).

aside from de facto Partner visa classes, same gender partners are able to submit an application for any of the lots of temporary and permanent visa subclasses accessible on condition that they meet the pertinent criteria within the visa subclass and they can comprise their same-sex de facto Partner in these visas applications and take in children and step children of these relations into these applications. Health and quality criteria must certainly be met.