About Prospective Marriage Visa Australia
Prospective Marriage Visa Australia is a general-information guide to the subclass 300 that dates its figures to government sources. It is not a government website, part of the Department of Home Affairs or a law firm. Each figure names its source and the date it was checked or took effect. The guide cannot advise on your own case; its enquiry page can send a private question to Australian Migration Lawyers.
How this guide is researched
Row label Method Where the facts come from Government and legislation only: Department of Home Affairs, the Federal Register of Legislation, the Attorney-General’s Department, the Administrative Review Tribunal and other Australian government agencies. How each fact is dated The “as at” date is the day the government page or tool was read. The commencement date is the day a law or charge took effect. The source is named in the same sentence. How to read dates A figure is a dated record of a source check, not a promise that it has since been refreshed. Recheck current charges, processing times and rules with the named government source before acting. Enquiry delivery The enquiry page can send a private question to Australian Migration Lawyers. Advertising No advertising, affiliate links or paid listings appear in this content package. At a glance
Label Value Covers The Prospective Marriage visa (subclass 300) for the applicant and the Australian sponsor, from engagement to the partner visa (820/801). Sources Department of Home Affairs; the Migration Act 1958, Migration Regulations 1994, Marriage Act 1961 and Marriage Regulations 2017; Attorney-General’s Department; Administrative Review Tribunal; other Australian government agencies. Facts checked as at 3 October 2026. Reading dates Check the date beside each figure and verify it with the current government source. Enquiries Questions are addressed to Australian Migration Lawyers.
What this guide covers, and what it leaves out
Covers
- Who can apply and who can sponsor.
- Relationship evidence and documents.
- Cost, processing time and the online application.
- The visa conditions.
- The legal wedding: the Notice of Intended Marriage, the celebrant and marrying inside the visa period.
- The partner visa (820/801) after the wedding.
- What happens when the path breaks: a refusal and review, a delayed or cancelled wedding, an expiring visa or a relationship that ends.
Leaves out
- Wedding planning, including venues, vendors and budgets.
- Directories or rankings of celebrants, venues or lawyers: the guide names no firm and no celebrant.
- Meeting a partner or introduction services.
- Other countries’ fiancé visas, including the US K-1 and the UK fiancé visa.
- Family law beyond the rule that an earlier marriage must have legally ended.
- Cities, housing and lifestyle.
- Tax, Centrelink and Medicare advice beyond the facts a subclass 300 holder needs.
- Advice on a particular couple’s case.
Nothing on the site helps anyone mislead the Department of Home Affairs; a marriage entered into only to get a visa appears only as the law treats it.
The homepage of Prospective Marriage Visa Australia sets out the visa and its requirements. The disclaimer page, General information only, explains what that limit means for a reader.
Where the facts come from
The guide uses these six groups of primary sources:
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Department of Home Affairs: the Prospective Marriage visa (subclass 300) page, updated 10 August 2026, together with Home Affairs’ pricing, processing-time and visa-conditions tools.
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Federal Register of Legislation: the Migration Act 1958, Compilation No. 171, and the Migration Regulations 1994, Compilation No. 288, dated 1 July 2026, were checked as at 3 October 2026. The Register also showed an unincorporated student-visa amendment in force from 2 October 2026; it does not change the subclass 300 provisions used here.
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Marriage legislation: the Marriage Act 1961, Compilation No. 34, and the Marriage Regulations 2017 provide the legal-wedding rules.
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Attorney-General’s Department: its Get married and Notice of Intended Marriage pages explain the marriage process and provide the notice form.
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Administrative Review Tribunal: its Immigration and citizenship and Fees pages provide review information and published fees.
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Other Australian government agencies: where needed, the guide uses Services Australia’s Medicare information, Smartraveller’s advice on marrying overseas, the Australian Federal Police’s national police checks page, and state and territory registries of births, deaths and marriages.
No figure comes from another website or a forum. Where other sites repeat an outdated figure, the guide states the current one with its government source.
How pages are dated and updated
Each figure carries the date it was checked or the date it took effect. An “as at” date records when the source was read; a commencement date records when the rule or charge began. The footer shows the date the site’s facts were last checked.
The dates on this guide record checks already made. They do not establish a future review schedule. Check the current law, charge or processing-time tool before making a decision.
For example, Schedule 1 item 1215 of the Migration Regulations 1994 changed the standard subclass 300 main-applicant charge from AUD 9,365 to AUD 11,710 on 1 July 2026—an increase of AUD 2,345, or approximately 25.0%. The Administrative Review Tribunal’s Fees page lists the migration review fee as AUD 3,727 as at 3 October 2026; regulations 4.13A–4.13B provide for its indexation each 1 July.
Who receives your enquiry
The enquiry page can send your question to Australian Migration Lawyers. The guide itself does not answer questions about a particular case.
Personal advice on a visa is immigration assistance under section 276 of the Migration Act 1958, and section 280(3) permits an Australian legal practitioner to give that assistance in connection with legal practice.
The privacy page describes the details collected, the recipient and site-copy handling.
The registered law firm
The law firm behind the enquiry page is Australian Legal Partnership Pty Ltd (ACN 656 815 539), trading as Australian Migration Lawyers. This guide publishes general information and is not itself the law firm; the firm's privacy policy and terms and conditions apply to the enquiry form.
No advertising, no affiliate links
The guide carries no advertising, no affiliate links and no paid listings, and ranks no lawyer, celebrant or venue. The enquiry page can send a private question to Australian Migration Lawyers.
This guide publishes general information under the Prospective Marriage Visa Australia name. Submitted questions are addressed to Australian Migration Lawyers.
Asking about your own Prospective Marriage visa
The enquiry page shows what dates and questions to prepare and can send a private question to Australian Migration Lawyers. For advice about your own application, sponsorship, wedding dates or visa documents, contact an Australian migration lawyer directly.
Is Prospective Marriage Visa Australia a government website?
No. It is not part of the Department of Home Affairs. The government source is the Home Affairs Prospective Marriage visa (subclass 300) page.
How do I report an error on a page?
Report a page error to support@webassetbuilders.com. Include the page address, the sentence at issue and the current government source if you have one. Check the source named beside a dated claim if you need the current position.
Where general information stops
The guide states general rules with dates; it cannot read a couple’s grant letter, refusal letter or evidence. An Australian migration lawyer can apply those rules to your own documents and check the criteria, evidence consistency, missing documents and relevant dates.
All applicable decision-time criteria must be met when Home Affairs decides the application; clause 300.221 of the Migration Regulations 1994 specifically requires the intention-to-marry, meeting and genuine-intention criteria to remain satisfied. The standard main-applicant charge is AUD 11,710 as at 3 October 2026 under Schedule 1 item 1215, and the Home Affairs Prospective Marriage visa page, updated 10 August 2026, says the application charge is not refunded if the application is refused.
The wedding must take place inside the visa period under clause 300.215 and condition 8519 of the Migration Regulations 1994. For a subclass 300 refusal, regulation 4.02(5)(r) makes the sponsor the review applicant; section 347 of the Migration Act 1958 ordinarily gives them 28 days after the day they are notified to apply, or 14 days if in immigration detention, and the Tribunal cannot extend that limit.
A lawyer can check how those requirements and deadlines apply to your documents; that check does not predict a visa grant or review outcome. The enquiry page can send a private question to Australian Migration Lawyers. For individual advice, contact an Australian migration lawyer directly.
Facts as at: 3 October 2026.