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Her chances of being able to get a visa to visit Australia and make an application for an onshore Partner visa will depend largely on whether her country of citizenship is low or high risk.

If she is from a low risk ETA eligible country, she should be able to get an ETA or eVisitor visa without any problem. If however she is from a high risk country, she is unlikely to be granted a Tourist visa unless she can provide evidence of strong employment, educational or other ties to her home country AND, many Tourist visas for applicants from high risk countries are granted with a No Further Stay Condition 8503 attached. If she gets a Tourist visa with an 8503, no further visa application can be lodged while she is in Australia. There is no way of knowing in advance if an 8503 will be imposed and no way to have one removed once it has been imposed.

http://www.immi.gov.au/visitors/tourist/visa-optio... Tourist visa options

http://www.immi.gov.au/immigration/eta-eligible-pa... Low risk countries

If she is granted a Tourist visa of some kind without a condition 8503 and enters Australia, she can apply for an onshore Partner visa and will be granted a Bridging visa that will allow her to stay in Australia until a decision is reached on her Partner visa application. The Bridging visa will have the same work conditions as the visa from which it is bridging so she will not be allowed to work for the 6 - 12 months she is waiting for the Partner visa to be processed.

http://www.immi.gov.au/migrants/partners/partner/8... Onshore Partner visa

http://www.immi.gov.au/allforms/booklets/1127.pdf Partner Migration booklet

She needs to be aware that if she was required to provide evidence of strong ties to her home country in order to get a Tourist visa, that evidence in turn may appear to be fraudulent if she then apples for an onshore Partner visa - a situation which could adversely affect the chances of success of that application.

If she decides to instead apply for an offshore Partner visa, she would have a fairly good chance of being granted a long term Tourist visa if she applies after she lodges the Partner visa application and in that case, an 8503 wouldn't matter. She MUST be offshore when the Partner visa is granted (if an offshore visa is granted to an applicant who is onshore, they lose the visa) but will only need to leave Australia for a few days for the grant to take place. She must make sure her Partner visa Case Officer knows that she is onshore so that the CO can send a pre-grant email/letter when the visa has been processed and is ready to grant to give her time to leave the country for the grant to take place.

http://www.immi.gov.au/migrants/partners/partner/3... Offshore Partner visa

Aa, I wish you guys when posting a question would tell us what country your friend his wife are from.

Regardless, your friend should make an appointment with the Australian High Commission or Embassy, and should have copies of Birth Certificates, Passports, and Certificate of Marriage. I am sure Australia is like us, and would also like to see proof of how long was the relationship, prior to marriage.

The case officer can make a determination and start the ball rolling, and give you the required steps. I do not advise trying to bring her in on a tourist visa, then applying for a PR or landed residents visa. I have seen a good number rejected, for this.

Partner Visa Immi

There are various visas available including a bridging visa. Your friend should start off with the Department of Immigration and Citizenship web site at http://www.immi.gov.au/ and run through the Visa Wizard. Armed with the information acquired there, he should talk to someone from the Department about the best way to go. These cases can be tricky and no-one can say exactly what will happen without knowing the full details. Your friend will find the Department to be helpful.

I would also suggest you to take a free online assessment in an australian immigration site for you to be given with exact sufficient funds needed for applying an Australian Visitor Visa

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Depends on their credit I guess.