Visa to Australia made easy from today

Applying for a partner visa to Australia will now be faster and easier, with the introduction of ImmiAccount.

From today [Monday], applicants for a partner visa to Australia will be able to apply through a single entry point on the website of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP).

The new online facility will be a self-service web portal that will enable clients to create, submit, pay for and manage all online applications in the one online system.

The new application service comes as the DIBP is making significant changes to the online visa application system, which temporarily brought down the website from Friday 2pm to Sunday 2pm.

Although the changes in the system overall are still unclear, the online application for partner visas is ready to go ahead on Monday.

Hannibal Khoury, is MARA registered agent, welcomes the new systems and the online approach taken by the DIBP. 

Hannibal says, "The trend has been for online lodgement of visa applications.  This is seen as a natural progression that now other visa subclasses are available for online lodgement.”