Prospective Marriage Visa (Subclass 300) Australia: Full Guide
How the Prospective Marriage visa (subclass 300) works — the 9 to 15 month window to marry, who can sponsor, the evidence required, and what changes once you apply for a partner visa afterwards. Figures as at September 2026.
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- 0:00 9 to 15 months
- 0:12 No date specified?
- 0:22 Both must be 18+.
- 0:36 Two conditions:
- 0:59 Sponsor limits:
- 1:15 $11,710 main applicant
- 1:29 Marry, then apply on time:
- 1:42 Married changes one thing:
- 1:56 Miss the wedding date,
- 2:07 Where to read more
Transcript
The Prospective Marriage visa gives you 9 to 15 months in Australia to actually get married — miss that window, and the visa ends anyway.
Home Affairs sets the exact end date within that range when it grants the visa. If no other date is specified, it defaults to 9 months from the grant date.
Both the applicant and the Australian sponsor must have turned 18. The couple must have met in person after they'd each turned 18, and be known to each other personally — a relationship that's only ever been online doesn't meet that.
Two conditions come with the visa: marrying within the visa period, and not marrying before entering Australia on it.
The application needs identity documents, relationship evidence, statements from 2 witnesses aged 18 or over who know you both, evidence of the sponsor's status, health exams, police certificates, and evidence you genuinely intend to marry.
Not everyone can sponsor. Generally, a sponsor can't be approved if 2 or more people have already been granted a visa as their partner or prospective spouse — or if they sponsored a partner, or were sponsored themselves, on an application made less than 5 years earlier.
The government charge is $11,710 for the main applicant, $5,860 for each dependant aged 18 or over, and $2,935 for each child under 18.
Marry, then apply for the 820 or 801 while still holding the 300, and that charge drops to $1,955 instead of the standard $11,710.
After the wedding, the partner visa application covers evidence across four areas — financial, social, household and commitment. Because you're now married, the 12-month de facto requirement doesn't apply.
Miss the marriage inside the visa period, and the visa still ends on its set date — a new application, from outside Australia, and a new charge, would be needed to try again.
The full guide, with the official sources, is on migratio.com.au. The link is in the description.
Short versions
- There's a visa just to get married in Australia (0:33)
- Not everyone can sponsor a fiancé visa (0:29)
- $11,710 or $1,955 — the fiancé visa fee gap (0:32)
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