Family and Partner Visas
Avant Law - Family migration support with long-term focus
Family migration applications require careful preparation, strong evidentiary support and a clear understanding of legislative requirements to avoid unnecessary risk and processing delays. Decisions in this area have significant personal and long-term residency consequences.
We advise individuals and families across a range of visa categories to include dependents at first instance, reunite as subsequent entrants, or plan long-term settlement in the future.
Our services include:
- Onshore and offshore Partner visa applications
- Prospective marriage visas
- Advice on parent visa options and interim visa pathways, including application process
- Child visa applications
- Guidance on timing and strategic sequencing, which can impact future eligibility and processing outcomes
- Onshore and offshore application strategy, including options for partners of New Zealand citizens
- Advice on health and character issues, including health waiver provisions
- Schedule 3 and complex bridging visa related issues
- Strategic advice on options to achieve permanent residency and citizenship
- Guidance around sponsorship requirements, including repeat sponsorship and assurances of support
- Merits review and procedural fairness advocacy as required
- Resident return applications
Family visa applications can be document-intensive and are subject to strict statutory criteria. We assist our clients to prepare and lodge complete and well-supported applications with the Department of Home Affairs, and identify and manage potential risks early in the process to avoid delays and unexpected adverse outcomes.
Our approach is to work in partnership with our clients to provide certainty and achieve positive outcomes in a complex regulatory environment.
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