FREE Partner Visa Consultation Policy (2023 Valentine’s Day Promo)
For a limited time only we are offering consultations to discuss partner related visas for NO FEE, here on in referred to as the 'promotional consultation'. Bookings must be MADE & SECURED before 11.59pm AEDT on 14 Feb 2023 to be eligible.
Promotional Consultations – Additional Terms
The total cost of this promotional consultation is $0 and the consultation is limited to a maximum of 30 minutes.
Promotional consultations are offered on a first come first served basis and availability and times are limited to those in the booking calendar. No further discounts will apply and cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer.
Only one free promotional consultation may be booked per couple (couple being the entity of the prospective applicant and partner/sponsor) whether booked by a member of the couple or by another person on behalf of the couple.
Promotional consultations are available only for a limited time only and can end without notice.
Promotional consultations are limited to exploring basic eligibility for partner visas or partner related visas only. Specifically, the following visa types:
Subclass 309 and/or Subclass 100 Offshore Partner Visas
Subclass 820 and/or Subclass 801 Onshore Partner Visas
Subclass 300 Prospective Marriage Visas
Subclass 461 NZ Family Member Visa (for partners and/or children only)
Applying to be added to your partners subclass 482 temporary work visa (where your partner already holds the subclass 482 visa)
Applying to be added to your partners subclass 500 student visa (where your partner already holds the subclass 500 student visa)
We will only discuss and advise on those of the above that are relevant to you and your circumstances.
During the promotional consultation, we will not advise in-depth on:
Applications that have already been lodged by you or another lawyer/agent;
Health waivers and health issues that may warrant a health waiver
Character issues that may impact on the application
Persons who are currently unlawful or on bridging visas
If any of the above apply to you, you may be asked to book a paid consultation. To save time you may like to book a paid consultation to start rather than booking a promotional consultation.
Booking Promotional Consultations
In order to secure your appointment, you must fill in all the requested details and confirm your booking online. All details requested must be entered completely and correctly. We reserve the right to cancel any appointments already booked if any or some of the requested details have not been sufficiently provided.
Once your consultation has been booked, you will receive an email confirming the details of your appointment.
Consultation
At the time of your consultation, we will call you using the number you provided in your booking. You may like to provide an alternate number we can reach you on just in case. Be sure you are comfortable and in a quiet place where you can talk and hear us easily.
If you are overseas, we will contact your using WhatsApp. Be sure to have WhatsApp downloaded and ready to use prior to your consultation.
Priority Service
If you require advice from us urgently (within 12 hours of contacting us or out of hours), we charge AUD550.00. Please contact us by phone/text/WhatsApp on +61422 526 245 or email us at hello@visasidekick.com.au to arrange this priority consultation service. Due to the immediate nature of this appointment type your consultation fee will be charged in full at the time of booking.
Rescheduling or Cancelling Your Appointment
You may use the online scheduler to reschedule your appointment up to 12 hours prior to your appointment. However, if you do this more than twice, we may charge an administrative fee of $50 for subsequent changes.
We understand that sometimes things happen that are beyond your control, so we do take exceptional circumstances into consideration and will consider these on a case-by-case basis.
We reserve the right to refuse or cancel an appointment booking for reasons such as where the details we have request in the booking details have not been filled in correctly; where the query is related to a visa type other than a partner related visa; or if the query is something we cannot help with.
We will attempt to contact you if your appointment is cancelled or if additional information is required to accept your appointment.
Lateness and No Shows
It is in your interests to ensure that you are on time for your appointment. If you are late, please call or email and let us know. If you are more than 5 minutes late, you will not be able to spend the full allocated time with us and we may ask you to schedule a subsequent appointment, if necessary, at your own cost.
If you don’t attend your appointment, the promotional consultation will be forfeighted and to obtain further advice you would need to book in paid consultation.
Additional Documents & Information
You are encouraged to provide as many details about your immigration status and circumstances as possible prior to your consultation to assist our immigration specialists in being prepared to answer all your questions and provide you with advice. You may upload any relevant documents when making the booking or emailing them to us at hello@visasidekick.com.au (be sure your email includes details that match your booking details). If you are interested in any skilled/work based visas you should provide an up to date CV prior to your consultation time.
VEVO Check
A VEVO check is a check that can be done online using your passport details to check your current visa details, including the expiry date. This can be very helpful in a consultation. If you are not confident you know the exact details of the visa you currently hold we would suggest doing a VEVO check yourself online prior to your consultation and having the details handy or emailing them to us (hello@visasidekick.com.au). Alternatively, when booking the consultation you can upload a copy of your passport and either you can consent to us doing a VEVO check for you prior to your consultation or we can do the check during your consultation. We must receive the consent from the person whose passport is provided. If you are booking on behalf of somebody else, you must not provide consent on their behalf unless you have their authority to (ie do not check the relevant box).
Purpose of Initial Consultation
The purpose of our initial consultation is to assess whether you have any visa options that would suit your goals for your stay in Australia. Most often people are seeking to remain in Australia permanently, but this is not always the case. Booking in a consultation does not guarantee that you will eligible for any visa type. We will assess whether, based on your current circumstances and the migration law that applies at the time of consultation, if you have any suitable Australian partner visa options. The discussion and advice will be limited to the migration law at the time of the consultation.
A consultation does not create an ongoing lawyer-client relationship and does not bind us to update you if the migration law changes after your consultation.
We may discuss with you, at our discretion, visa options that may be available to you in future, but we do not provide a full assessment and advice for hypothetical scenarios that are based on multiple variables. An example of a hypothetical scenario would be if a person were wanting to apply for a partner visa before they had found a partner.
Please Note: These promotional consultations are limited to discussing partner visas and partner related visas only. No further options will be assessed. If you would like to explore other options you should book a paid initial consultation.
Getting the most out of your consultation
Consultations work best if we can speak directly with the prospective visa applicant or, in the case of a partner visa, their partner sponsor. If you are booking a consultation on behalf of someone else, please provide details of this in the booking details. We also strongly suggest providing the contact details for the other person and/or including them in the call.
We have a blog post coming soon that will include other tips for how to get the most out of your consultation. We will link it here when it becomes available.
If you are not sure whether a consultation is right for you contact us at hello@visasidekick.com.au to check. We will not be able to assess your visa options over email but we can let you know if a consultation would be able to answer your queries.