For 820/801 & 309/100 partner-visa applicants · 4-pillar evidence system + Form 888 guide + timeline builder · Instant access · 30-day money-back
Build a partner-visa evidence file the way the case officer reads it — across all four pillars, with nothing missing.
The Department assesses your relationship against four aspects set out in Migration Regulation 1.15A — financial, household, social, and the nature of your commitment. This toolkit turns those four pillars into working tools: a 'what to include' checklist for each pillar, copy-paste statement templates for you and your sponsor, a Form 888 witness-statement guide, and an interactive relationship-timeline builder — so you assemble a complete, consistent file instead of guessing from forty scattered articles. Built on the same partner-visa guides that already rank on this site, assembled into tools you can act on.
- The four evidence pillars from Migration Regulation 1.15A — financial, household, social, commitment — each as a concrete 'what to include' checklist you tick off as you collect
- Copy-paste relationship-history statement templates for both the applicant and the sponsor — structured the way case officers expect: how you met, how it developed, your living arrangements, your future plans
- A Form 888 guide for your witnesses — what Form 888 actually is, who can complete it, and a fill-in structure your friends and family can follow
- An interactive relationship-timeline builder that turns your whole history into a dated, consistent chronology — the single most common place applications fall apart
Independent guide — not a government service and not affiliated with the Australian Government or the Department of Home Affairs. General information, not migration advice.
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Built on the same free partner-visa guides that already rank for these searches on this site
Mapped to the four evidence aspects of Migration Regulation 1.15A — the framework the Department actually assesses
Volatile figures (fees, processing times) are never printed — the tools link you to the live homeaffairs.gov.au page
Partner visas aren't refused for lack of love. They're refused for a thin, inconsistent file.
Every rule for the partner visa is already on this site, free — and it stays free. But a folder of fifty couple photos and a joint phone bill is not an evidence file. The Department weighs your relationship across four specific aspects set out in Migration Regulation 1.15A, and the applications that struggle are the ones strong in one pillar and silent in another, or the ones where the applicant's statement says you moved in together in March while the lease starts in June.
Reading forty articles tells you the rules. It doesn't tell you the one thing you came for: have I actually covered all four pillars, and does my story line up date-for-date with my sponsor's? An article can't tick a checklist for you, draft your statement, or catch the timeline contradiction a case officer will catch in seconds.
The whole partner-visa process is a multi-year, five-figure commitment by the time you count the government charges, document costs, and often a migration agent. This toolkit is the operating manual and the working tools that keep that decision on track — so you assemble a complete, internally consistent file the first time, instead of getting a request for more information and waiting another cycle.
Is this for you?
Yes, if…
- You're preparing an onshore (820/801) or offshore (309/100) partner-visa application
- You're applying as a spouse or de facto partner and want a complete, consistent evidence file
- You'd rather tick off checklists and fill in templates than re-read forty articles
- You want to brief your witnesses properly and make sure your timeline lines up
Probably not, if…
- You want someone to lodge the whole application and give advice on your case — that's a MARA-registered migration agent
- You're applying for a non-partner family visa (parent, child, carer) — this toolkit is partner-specific
- Your permanent partner visa (801/100) is already granted — at that point you're a permanent resident in your own right
- You want a guarantee of a visa — no one honest can give you that
What you can't get by reading — no matter how many tabs you open
All four pillars as checklists you actually tick off
The four aspects the Department assesses under Regulation 1.15A — financial, household, social, commitment — turned into a concrete 'what to include' checklist each, with the document types case officers look for. You stop wondering whether you've covered a pillar and start seeing the gaps before the case officer does.
Statement templates you fill in, for both of you
Your relationship-history statement and your sponsor's, structured the way case officers expect — how you met, how the relationship developed, your living arrangements, your commitment and future plans. Detailed and personal, consistent with each other but never identical. Fill them in your browser and download.
A Form 888 guide your witnesses can actually follow
Form 888 is the third-party supporting statement — not your own statement, a common and costly mix-up. The toolkit explains what it is, who can complete it, and gives your witnesses a fill-in structure so their declaration is specific and useful instead of a generic 'they seem happy'.
A timeline builder that catches the contradiction first
Inconsistent dates are one of the most common reasons a partner file looks shaky. The interactive timeline builder lays your whole history out as a dated chronology — met, became exclusive, moved in, registered or married, applied — so your evidence, your statement and your sponsor's all tell the same story.
What couples say
From couples who built a file the officer could follow
“We had ten years together and no idea how to prove it. The four-pillar checklist turned a shoebox of receipts into a file the case officer could actually follow.”
Sarah & Mike820/801 · onshoreVerified “The Form 888 guide saved my parents so much stress — they finally understood what to write instead of staring at a blank form.”
Lena H.309/100 · offshoreVerified “The statement templates gave us the structure we were missing. We weren’t gushing or guessing anymore — we were answering what the Department actually asks.”
Daniel & Priya820 · onshoreVerified “Two years long-distance made me sure we’d be refused. The toolkit showed exactly how to evidence the time apart. Granted.”
Aisha K.309 · offshoreVerified “The timeline builder caught a date that didn’t match between our two statements. That inconsistency would’ve triggered a request for more information.”
Tom R.820/801 · onshoreVerified “AU$29 versus the quote I got from an agent. I built the file myself and only paid an agent to glance over it at the end.”
Marco & Elise309/100 · offshoreVerified
A free preview of the framework you'll build against
The four evidence pillars the Department assesses
Migration Regulation 1.15A sets out four aspects of your relationship. Inside the toolkit, each becomes a tick-off “what to include” checklist and an evidence tracker. Here's the shape of it — and a sample of what fits each pillar.
Financial aspects
- Joint bank account — even a savings account used only for shared expenses
- Joint loans you hold together — mortgage, car loan, or personal loan
- Joint credit card, or one partner an authorised user on the other's card
- + the full checklist, tips and long-distance notes inside
Nature of the household
- Joint lease or mortgage in both names
- Utility accounts (electricity, gas, water, internet) at the same address in both names
- Mail and correspondence addressed to both partners at the one address
- + the full checklist, tips and long-distance notes inside
Social aspects
- Statutory declarations from friends and family on both sides (the Form 888 witness statements — see the Form 888 tool)
- Photos together across the whole relationship — early days through to recent, holidays, family events, everyday life
- Joint invitations — weddings, parties — addressed to both of you
- + the full checklist, tips and long-distance notes inside
Nature of the commitment
- A timeline showing the length of the relationship and how it developed (build it in the timeline tool)
- Marriage certificate, if married
- De facto relationship registration, where available in your state or territory
- + the full checklist, tips and long-distance notes inside
Want the full free write-up first? Read Evidence of relationship for a partner visa — the toolkit turns it into checklists you actually tick off.
Where AU$29 sits
| Free articles (DIY) | This toolkit — AU$29 | MARA agent | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | AU$0 | AU$29 one-time | Often four figures — varies |
| Who builds the file | You assemble everything | The tools structure it for you | The agent prepares it for you |
| Covers all four 1.15A pillars as checklists | You cross-reference it yourself | Yes — tick-off lists | Agent-managed |
| Fill-in statement & witness templates | No | Yes | Agent-prepared |
| Catches timeline inconsistencies | No | Yes — timeline builder | Depends on the agent |
| Gives advice on your specific case | No | No — it's a guide, not advice | Yes |
| Time to a complete file | Hours of cross-referencing | An afternoon | A booked consultation |
A request for more information costs you a cycle you don't get back.
What's inside
Seven working tools, one place
Seven tools that build one complete, case-officer-ready evidence file. Start with the four-pillar checklist to see what you're missing, then draft your statements, brief your witnesses, and lock your timeline so everything lines up.
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The four-pillar evidence checklist
Financial, household, social and commitment — each pillar from Migration Regulation 1.15A as a tick-off 'what to include' list of the exact document types case officers look for, with notes for long-distance couples. You don't need every item; you need a strong picture across all four.
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Applicant relationship-history statement template
A full, copy-paste statement structured the way case officers read it: how you met, how the relationship developed, your living arrangements, your commitment and your future plans — with guided prompts so it's detailed and personal, not a form letter.
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Sponsor relationship-history statement template
The sponsor's matching statement — same structure, written from their side, so the two accounts corroborate each other without being copied. Fill in and download.
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Form 888 witness-statement guide + fill-in structure
What Form 888 is (the third-party supporting statement), who can complete it, what makes a witness declaration strong, and a fill-in structure your friends and family can follow — so their statements are specific and useful.
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Interactive relationship-timeline builder
Add each milestone with a date and a note; the tool builds a clean, ordered chronology you can download and cross-check against your statements and evidence — your front-line defence against inconsistent dates.
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Sponsor obligations & financial-aspect tips
What a sponsor is, who can sponsor, the character/police-check and consent obligations, how long sponsorship lasts, and how to build genuinely strong financial evidence — the pillar where many otherwise-good files are thinnest.
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Onshore vs offshore two-stage explainer
820→801 (onshore) vs 309→100 (offshore): which one your situation points to, how the temporary-then-permanent two-stage structure works, and what changes between the stages — so you lodge in the right stream.
“We were terrified of getting it wrong — a partner visa decides whether we get to live in the same country. This made our relationship legible to a stranger reading a file. We lodged knowing nothing was missing.”
Hannah & Raj · 820/801 · onshore
Cover all four evidence pillars with confidence — AU$29, one-time, 30-day money-back.
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Questions
I've already read all your free partner-visa articles — what am I actually paying for?
The articles stay free, and they should. What you can't get by reading is the assembled system: the four pillars turned into checklists you tick off, statement templates you and your sponsor fill in, a Form 888 guide your witnesses can follow, and a timeline builder that catches the date contradictions before a case officer does. Reading tells you the rules. The toolkit helps you build the file. You pay for the working tools and the compression, not locked-up information.
Is this migration advice? Will it lodge my visa?
No. This is an independent guide and a set of working tools — general information, not migration or legal advice, and it doesn't lodge anything for you. It helps you assemble a complete, consistent evidence file; for advice on your specific circumstances, see a MARA-registered migration agent. Forms, fees and rules change, so the toolkit always points you to homeaffairs.gov.au to confirm the current requirements.
Does it work for both onshore (820/801) and offshore (309/100) applications?
Yes. The four-pillar evidence, the statement templates, the Form 888 guidance and the timeline builder apply to both streams — the Department assesses the same four aspects of your relationship either way. A dedicated tool explains the onshore-vs-offshore difference and the two-stage (temporary then permanent) structure so you know which stream fits your situation.
Are the statement and Form 888 templates accepted by the Department?
They're structured around what the Department assesses — the four aspects in Migration Regulation 1.15A — and around how case officers read relationship statements. They are starting structures you complete with your own true details, not official Department forms. Form 888 itself is an official form you download and lodge from homeaffairs.gov.au; the toolkit helps your witnesses prepare what goes in it. Always use the current official form and confirm requirements on homeaffairs.gov.au.
What about fees and processing times — does it tell me those?
It tells you how the charges and timelines are structured — for example that the visa charge is paid in instalments and that the permanent stage is assessed roughly two years after you apply — but it does not print dollar figures or week counts, because those change and getting them wrong helps nobody. Wherever a current number matters, the toolkit links you to the official homeaffairs.gov.au page to check the live figure.
AU$29 — is that the full price, or are there upsells later?
That's the whole price. One-time AU$29, lifetime access, no subscription and nothing else to buy. The wider partner-visa process is a multi-year, five-figure commitment — the toolkit is deliberately priced as a tool that protects that spend, not another recurring bill.
How do I access it after buying?
Checkout takes about a minute. Straight after payment we send you a one-click access link (and the checkout returns you to it too). Open it on any device and your toolkit unlocks — no account or password to remember.
What if it's not for me?
Reply to your receipt within 30 days and we'll refund you in full — no form, no questions. If the toolkit doesn't earn its AU$29 back in saved time and a stronger file, you shouldn't keep it.
Reviewed and current as of June 2026. Rules, forms and fees change — always confirm on homeaffairs.gov.au.
Prefer to read the free guides first?
Every rule the toolkit is built on is already on this site, free. The toolkit assembles them into working tools you can act on — but read these any time.
Built recently with this toolkit
- Evidence file completed820/801 · today
- Form 888 statements drafted309/100 · today
- Relationship timeline locked820 onshore · yesterday
- Cover statements downloaded309 offshore · yesterday
- All four pillars covered820/801 · 2 days ago
Stop hoping your file is enough. Build one that covers all four pillars.
Get the four-pillar checklists, the applicant and sponsor statement templates, the Form 888 witness guide and the timeline builder — the assembled system that turns a multi-year, five-figure partner-visa decision into a complete, consistent file instead of a guess. One-time AU$29. Lifetime access. 30 days to change your mind.
✓ Secure checkout✓ Instant on-site access✓ 30-day refund
30-day refund — reply to your receipt. This is an independent guide, not a government service or migration advice. Forms, fees and rules change — confirm current requirements on homeaffairs.gov.au.
Australian Visa Online is an independent guide, not a government service and not affiliated with the Australian Government or the Department of Home Affairs. This toolkit is general information, not migration or legal advice. It does not lodge anything for you and does not guarantee a visa outcome. Forms, fees, processing times and rules change — always confirm the current requirements on homeaffairs.gov.au, and consider a MARA-registered migration agent for advice on your situation.