Tick the evidence you already have and see how you're tracking across the four pillars case officers assess: financial, household, social, and commitment. Based on criteria written by our immigration lawyer. Free, and takes a few minutes.
Before you start
This checker is a guide only, based on what you tick rather than verified documents, so treat your result as a starting point, not a final read.
A red pillar doesn't mean your visa would be refused, and not every pillar needs to be green. Case officers assess your relationship as a whole, and couples living apart across countries, for example, are naturally lighter in some pillars.
This checker uses general criteria written by our immigration lawyer. It isn't an assessment of your specific case, and it isn't immigration advice.
The four pillars come from regulation 1.15A(3) of the Migration Regulations 1994: financial aspects, the nature of the household, social aspects, and the nature of the commitment. These are the same four aspects a case officer must weigh for every partner visa. The individual evidence items, and how much each one counts, were written by Antonious Nehme, Immigration Lawyer, Legal Practitioner Number 5513641.The weighting behind each item was worked out from the relevant legislation and regulations, the Department of Home Affairs' published policy and evidence lists, and Antonious Nehme's own experience from years of partner visa casework, which gives him a direct read on where the Department's evidentiary expectations sit. These are the same criteria our paid application workflow scores your real uploaded documents against. This checker runs the indicative, self-serve version, based on what you tick rather than verified documents. Relevant decisions of the Administrative Review Tribunal (formerly the AAT) provide some indicative guidance as well.