Subclass 309/100 Offshore Australian Partner Visa | Steps, Requirements & Costs Explained

Is your partner currently outside Australia? This is your complete step-by-step guide to the Subclass 309 and 100 — the offshore partner visa. 🇦🇺 We cover everything — eligibility, documents, lodgement, first entry, applying for the permanent stage, and the mistakes that can derail your application. Our MARA-registered migration agents at Ultimate Migration have helped hundreds of couples successfully navigate this process. Watch this before you lodge anything. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 — Introduction 0:15 — What is the Subclass 309 / 100? 0:30 — Two-stage process explained 0:48 — Key difference: onshore vs offshore 1:02 — Who is this visa for? 1:20 — Step 1: Check Your Eligibility 1:28 — You must be outside Australia at lodgement 1:40 — Relationship requirements (spouse & de facto) 1:50 — The 12-month de facto rule 2:16 — Exceptions to the 12-month rule 2:31 — Age & sponsor requirements 2:40 — Can you change your sponsor? (Important) 2:55 — Health, character & values requirements 3:16 — Step 2: Gather Your Documents 3:24 — Identity documents you need 3:38 — The 4 areas of relationship evidence 3:48 — Financial & household evidence 4:09 — Social evidence & Form 888 4:22 — ⚠️ Driver's licence not accepted 4:32 — Commitment evidence 4:49 — Written relationship history 5:07 — Why offshore evidence is more complex 5:23 — Previous relationships & divorces 5:30 — Step 3: Lodge the Application 5:38 — How your sponsor lodges their application 5:49 — Application fees — $9,365 AUD 6:08 — Visa Pricing Estimator tip 6:15 — Offshore health checks — panel physicians 6:32 — Police certificates (12-month validity) 6:46 — Lodge complete from day one 6:52 — Step 4: First Entry & Activating Your Visa 7:36 — Medicare & Adult Migrant English Program 7:43 — Step 5: Applying for the Permanent Subclass 100 8:24 — Long-term relationship exception 8:40 — Pro Tips from Ultimate Migration 9:31 — Final thoughts & how to get help ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 WHAT'S COVERED IN THIS VIDEO ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ What the 309/100 is and how the two stages work ✅ Eligibility requirements — location, relationship, age, sponsor ✅ The de facto 12-month rule and when exceptions apply ✅ Every document you need across all 4 evidence areas ✅ Form 888 — what it is and what witnesses must provide ✅ How to lodge through ImmiAccount step by step ✅ Full cost breakdown — $9,365 AUD + health, police & biometrics ✅ Offshore health checks — how to find your panel physician ✅ First entry arrival date — the step most people miss ✅ How and when to apply for the permanent Subclass 100 ✅ Long-term relationship exception — both stages granted together ✅ Common mistakes and pro tips from our MARA-registered agents ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📞 READY TO START YOUR 309/100 APPLICATION? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Our MARA-registered migration agents are here to help you get it right from day one. 📩 Email us: info@ultimatemigration.com 📅 Book a free consultation: ultimatemigration.com 🌐 Website: ultimatemigration.com 👇 Drop your question in the comments below — our team reads every single one. #partnervisa #subclass309 #subclass100 #offshorePartnerVisa #australiavisa #australianpr #partnervisaaustralia #migrationagent #ultimatemigration #australiaimmigration #defactovisa #spousevisa #VisaAustralia2026 #australianimmigration #partnervisaguide