Partner Visa With Few Photographs

A partner visa with few photos can still be granted. Photographs are not a legal requirement for any partner visa, and the Department of Home Affairs does not set a minimum number. Couples worry about applying for a partner visa with few photos because photographs are the most visible form of relationship evidence. In law, however, photographs are just one way of showing the social aspects of a relationship, and they are rarely the evidence that decides the outcome.

This guide explains how photographs are assessed, why many genuine couples have few of them, what evidence carries more weight, how to explain the gap, and what to avoid. For the wider picture, see our complete guide to partner visas in Australia. If you are concerned about the evidence in your own application, our partner visa lawyers can review it before lodgement.

Can you get a partner visa with few photos?

Yes. You can get a partner visa with few photos if the relationship evidence as a whole satisfies the decision maker that the relationship is genuine and continuing. The criteria for the Subclass 820, Subclass 801, Subclass 309, Subclass 100 and Subclass 300 visas do not mention photographs. They require a genuine relationship that meets the legal definition.

For a married couple, section 5F of the Migration Act 1958 requires a valid marriage, a mutual commitment to a shared life as a married couple to the exclusion of all others, a genuine and continuing relationship, and a couple who live together or do not live separately and apart on a permanent basis. Section 5CB contains equivalent requirements for unmarried couples. Under regulation 1.15A or regulation 1.09A of the Migration Regulations 1994, the Department must consider the financial aspects of the relationship, the nature of the household, the social aspects of the relationship and the nature of the commitment.

Photographs mainly support the social aspects. A couple who apply for a partner visa with few photos need to show the social aspects in other ways, and to show the other three aspects strongly. The Department's policy is that all of the circumstances are weighed together, not counted. A weakness in one kind of evidence does not decide the application.

Why photographs are not as important as couples think

Photographs are not as important as couples think because they prove less than they appear to. A photograph shows that two people were in the same place at the same time. It does not show that they share finances, live together, support each other or are committed to a shared future. A large collection of photographs from a single holiday says very little about whether a relationship is continuing.

Decision makers know this. They see applications with hundreds of photographs that are refused because the rest of the evidence is weak, and applications with a handful of photographs that are granted because the relationship is clearly established in other ways. A partner visa with few photos is assessed on the same basis as any other application: does the evidence as a whole show a genuine and continuing relationship?

That does not mean photographs are useless. A small number of genuine photographs, taken at different times, in different places and with different people, can be valuable evidence of the social aspects. The point is that they are one part of the picture, and their absence can be compensated for.

What decision makers look for in a partner visa with few photos

What decision makers look for in a partner visa with few photos is the same thing they look for in every partner visa: evidence that the couple share a life. The questions are practical. Do the couple live together? Do they share money and responsibilities? Do their families and friends know them as a couple? Have they supported each other through ordinary life and difficult times? Do they have real plans for the future?

Where photographs are scarce, the decision maker will look harder at the other evidence on those questions. A partner visa with few photos but a joint lease, shared bills, years of money transfers and statements from people who know the couple will usually read as a genuine relationship. A partner visa with few photos and little else will not, and the problem in that case is not the photographs.

Decision makers also look at consistency. The relationship statement, the forms, the documents and the photographs that do exist should all tell the same story. A small number of photographs that match the timeline in the statement, taken at the events the statement describes, can support the account powerfully even though they are few.

Common myths about a partner visa with few photos

Several myths cause couples unnecessary worry about a partner visa with few photos.

There is a minimum number of photographs

There is no minimum. The law does not mention photographs, and the Department does not publish a required number.

More photographs always help

More photographs help only if they show something new, such as a different time, place or set of people. Hundreds of similar photographs add little and can bury the evidence that matters.

A partner visa with few photos will be refused

Applications are decided on the evidence as a whole. A partner visa with few photos can be granted where the other evidence is strong and the gap is explained.

Photographs must be professional or posed

Ordinary, candid photographs taken in everyday life are often more convincing than posed images. A blurry photograph at a family dinner can say more than a studio portrait.

Social media posts are essential

Social media can be useful evidence but is not required. Many genuine couples do not post about their relationship at all.

Why many genuine couples have few photographs

Many genuine couples apply for a partner visa with few photos for ordinary reasons. Recognising the reason is the first step in explaining it.

Culture and faith

In some cultures, couples do not take photographs together before marriage, do not display affection in photographs, or do not share photographs outside the family. Some faiths discourage photography in certain settings. A couple whose customs limit photographs should explain that, and show the social aspects through family and community evidence instead.

Privacy and personality

Some people simply do not like being photographed. Others are private and do not keep photographs of their personal life. A couple who rarely take photographs of anything, not just of each other, have a straightforward explanation.

Safety and discretion

Some couples avoid photographs for safety reasons. A same-sex couple from a community where same-sex relationships are not accepted, or a person escaping a violent former partner, may deliberately avoid photographs that could identify them or their partner. These reasons should be explained carefully, and the evidence of the social aspects should come from people who know the couple.

A new relationship

A relationship that is relatively new may not yet have produced many photographs. That is not unusual, but the evidence must still show a genuine and continuing relationship. Our guide to partner visa relationship evidence explains what is needed.

Time apart

Couples who have spent much of their relationship in different countries may have photographs from only a few visits. Their evidence of communication, visits and financial support will usually carry more weight than photographs.

Lost devices and accounts

Phones are lost, broken or replaced, and cloud accounts are closed. A couple who once had many photographs may now have few. Where possible, photographs can sometimes be recovered from old devices, backups, or the phones and accounts of family and friends.

Photographs that carry the most weight

Where a couple have only a few photographs, it helps to know which kinds carry most weight, so that the best ones are chosen and described properly. The most useful photographs in a partner visa with few photos are:

• photographs with family members of both partners, which show that the families know and accept the relationship;
• photographs at significant events, such as engagements, weddings, birthdays, religious festivals and funerals;
• photographs taken at different times across the whole relationship, including early and recent images;
• photographs in the couple's home, which support the household aspect;
• photographs taken in different places, including travel; and
• photographs taken by other people, which show the couple as others see them.

Photographs of the two partners alone, taken on the same day in the same place, carry the least additional weight once one or two have been included. A partner visa with few photos should use its small number of images to cover as many of the categories above as possible.

Wedding and ceremony photographs

Wedding and ceremony photographs deserve particular attention. For a married couple, photographs of the wedding, together with the marriage certificate and evidence of the guests who attended, show the formal start of the married relationship and the social recognition of it. Even a couple who apply for a partner visa with few photos usually have some photographs of the ceremony. Where the ceremony was small or private, the statement should say why. Where guests attended, a guest list or statements from guests can support the photographs. Our page on the Subclass 300 prospective marriage visa explains the position for couples who have not yet married.

Social media and a partner visa with few photos

Social media is often raised in the same breath as photographs. Some couples worry that a partner visa with few photos will look worse because they also have no public posts about each other. Others wonder whether to create a social media history before lodging. Neither concern should drive the application.

Where the couple do use social media and have posted about each other, relationship status updates, posts, comments from friends and family, and tagged photographs can all be useful evidence of the social aspects. Screenshots should show the date, the account and the content clearly. Where the couple do not use social media, or use it without mentioning each other, that is common and should simply be stated if relevant. Creating a burst of posts shortly before lodgement, presented as if it reflected a long public relationship, is likely to be noticed and can count against the couple. As with photographs, genuine evidence honestly described is the right approach.

How the Department assesses photographs

The Department assesses photographs by asking what they show about the relationship over time. A useful photograph is one that shows the couple together, is dated or can be dated, shows a particular event or place, and ideally includes other people who know them as a couple. Photographs taken at different times across the relationship are more useful than photographs taken at one time.

Decision makers also look for signs that photographs were taken for the visa. A sequence of photographs of the couple posing in different outfits at the same location on the same day, uploaded as if they came from different occasions, can count against the application. So can photographs that appear to have been taken only in the weeks before lodgement.

A partner visa with few photos is therefore not at a disadvantage compared with an application full of staged or repetitive images. A few genuine photographs, honestly described, are better than many that raise questions.

Dates and metadata

Digital photographs usually contain information about when they were taken. Decision makers may rely on this, and couples should make sure the dates they give match the photographs. Where a photograph's date cannot be confirmed, the description should say approximately when it was taken and how the couple know.

Captions and descriptions

Each photograph should be briefly described: when and where it was taken, what the occasion was, and who else is in it. A short caption makes even a small number of photographs much more useful, because it connects them to the relationship history in the statement. In a partner visa with few photos, good captions are one of the simplest ways to add value.

Evidence that carries more weight than photographs

The evidence that carries more weight than photographs is the evidence that shows a shared life rather than shared moments. For a partner visa with few photos, these are the documents that should be gathered first.

Financial evidence

Joint bank accounts used over time, shared bills, money transfers between the partners, joint leases or mortgages, jointly owned assets, and wills, superannuation nominations or insurance policies naming the other partner. Financial evidence is often the most persuasive evidence of a genuine relationship, because it is difficult to create and reflects real decisions about money.

Household evidence

Evidence that the couple live together, such as a lease or mortgage in both names, bills and mail addressed to both at the same address, government records showing the same address, and a description of how household tasks are shared. Where the couple live with family, statements from family members about the household.

Social evidence other than photographs

Invitations addressed to both partners, evidence of joint membership of clubs, gyms or religious organisations, evidence of joint travel such as tickets and bookings, receipts from shared activities, evidence that each partner is known to the other's family and friends, and statements from people who know the couple. Form 888 statements are especially important for a partner visa with few photos.

Commitment evidence

Evidence of the length of the relationship, periods of living together, emotional support during difficult times, and plans for the future. This includes the couple's own statements, evidence of decisions they have made together, and evidence of care for each other during illness or hardship.

Communication evidence

Records of messages and calls over the course of the relationship. For couples who have spent time apart, communication records are central. A representative selection across the whole relationship is more useful than thousands of pages.

Our partner visa document checklist, 820 partner visa evidence checklist and guide to preparing evidence of a genuine relationship list the documents usually provided.

Communication records in a partner visa with few photos

Communication records often fill much of the space that photographs would otherwise occupy in a partner visa with few photos. Messages, call logs and video call records show contact over the whole relationship, including periods apart, and they show the nature of the relationship in the couple's own words at the time.

Communication records should be selected, not dumped. A useful selection includes samples from each period of the relationship, such as the early stage, any period apart, key events and recent months, rather than every message ever sent. Call logs can show frequency without revealing content. Where messages are in a language other than English, the selected messages should be translated into English. Personal or intimate content does not need to be included. The purpose is to show regular, continuing contact and a relationship that matches the couple's account, not to expose the couple's private life.

Form 888 statements for a partner visa with few photos

Form 888 statements are among the most important evidence for a partner visa with few photos. They are statements from Australian citizens, permanent residents or eligible New Zealand citizens who know the couple and support the application. Where photographs are limited, Form 888 statements show the decision maker that real people have seen the couple together over time and know them as a couple.

The most useful statements describe specific occasions: a family dinner, a wedding, a holiday, a time the couple helped each other through illness. They explain how long the writer has known the couple and how often they see them. They are written in the writer's own words and do not copy each other. Our articles on Form 888 for partner visas and Form 888 example answers and common mistakes explain what each statement should contain.

Where the people who know the couple best are overseas, their letters can still be provided as supporting evidence, even though they are not Form 888 statements.

Explaining few photographs in the relationship statement

The relationship statement should explain why the application is a partner visa with few photos. A gap that is explained is far less concerning than one that is left for the decision maker to interpret. Our guide to the partner visa relationship statement explains its structure.

The explanation should be short, specific and honest. It might say that the couple's culture discourages photographs before marriage, that one partner dislikes being photographed and the couple rarely take photographs of anything, that photographs were lost when a phone was stolen, or that the couple avoid photographs for safety reasons. It should then point the decision maker to the evidence that does show the social aspects of the relationship.

The explanation should not be defensive. There is no need to apologise for having few photographs. Many couples who apply for a partner visa with few photos are granted their visas because the rest of their evidence speaks clearly, and the statement simply needs to give the decision maker the context. The statement should present the relationship as it is, and show how it meets the legal requirements.

How many photographs should be provided?

There is no required number of photographs for any partner visa. For a partner visa with few photos, the right number is all the genuine, relevant photographs the couple have, selected so that they cover the relationship over time. A couple with only a handful of photographs should provide them all, with captions. A couple with more should select those that show different times, places and people, rather than many from the same occasion.

Uploading every photograph a couple have is rarely helpful. A decision maker faced with hundreds of similar images may miss the few that matter. A partner visa with few photos, carefully selected and described, is often easier to assess than an application overloaded with images.

Organising a partner visa with few photos for upload

How the evidence is organised matters more for a partner visa with few photos than for an application with abundant evidence, because each document must do more work. A clear structure helps the decision maker find the evidence that answers each aspect of the relationship.

A practical approach is to group the evidence under the four aspects: financial, household, social and commitment. Within the social aspects, photographs can sit alongside invitations, travel records, memberships and Form 888 statements, so that the decision maker sees the photographs as part of a wider body of social evidence. Each photograph or set of photographs should carry a caption with the date, place, occasion and people present. An index listing each document and the aspect it supports makes the whole application easier to assess.

The relationship statement should refer to the key documents by their index labels. That connects the couple's account to the evidence, and it shows the decision maker that a partner visa with few photos has been prepared carefully rather than left thin by accident.

Recovering photographs you thought were lost

Couples applying for a partner visa with few photos sometimes have more photographs than they realise. Before deciding that the photographs are gone, check old phones and computers, cloud backups and photo storage accounts, email attachments and messaging applications, where photographs shared between the partners may still be stored. Ask family members and friends whether they have photographs of the couple from events they attended, such as weddings, birthdays and holidays. Check the social media accounts of family and friends for tagged or shared images.

Recovered photographs should be dated and described accurately. Where the date cannot be established from the file, the couple should give their best estimate and explain how they know.

A partner visa with few photos where the couple live with family

Couples who live with one partner's parents or extended family often apply for a partner visa with few photos of the two of them alone, because daily life is shared with the wider household. That is common, and the household itself is evidence of the relationship. Statements from family members in the household, describing the couple's place in it and how they share responsibilities, can be powerful. Photographs of family occasions that include the couple, even if they are not the focus, show that the family treats them as a couple.

What to avoid when applying for a partner visa with few photos

Some responses to a shortage of photographs do more harm than good.

Staged photographs presented as old

Taking new photographs in the weeks before lodgement is not wrong in itself. Presenting them as if they were taken at earlier times is. Decision makers can check dates, and a photograph presented as something it is not can damage the couple's credibility on every other point. In a serious case, it could raise questions under public interest criterion 4020, which applies where information that is false or misleading in a material particular is given.

Edited or composite images

Photographs that have been edited to place one partner in an image they were not in, or composites presented as genuine, must never be provided. They are likely to be detected and can have serious consequences.

Borrowed photographs

Photographs taken by others are fine if they genuinely show the couple. Photographs of other people, or photographs presented as showing events the couple did not attend, must not be used.

Over-explaining

A long, anxious explanation of why there are few photographs can draw more attention to the gap than it deserves. A short explanation, followed by strong evidence in other areas, is more effective.

A partner visa with few photos and long distance relationships

Couples in long distance relationships often apply for a partner visa with few photos, because they have spent limited time together in person. For these couples, the evidence of the relationship lies mainly in communication, visits and support across the distance.

The evidence should show regular communication over the whole relationship, the visits the couple have made, the time spent together during those visits, financial support between the partners, and concrete plans to live together. Travel records, such as passport stamps, boarding passes and accommodation bookings, show the visits even where photographs are few. The law requires a married couple to live together or not live separately and apart on a permanent basis, so the statement should explain why the couple are apart and when they intend to live together.

Our page on the offshore Subclass 309 visa explains the application made from outside Australia, and our page on the Subclass 300 prospective marriage visa explains the visa for engaged couples.

A partner visa with few photos for same-sex couples

Same-sex couples sometimes apply for a partner visa with few photos because they cannot be openly photographed together in their home community or in front of family. Same-sex couples are assessed under the same law as any other couple, as our page on the LGBTI partner visa explains.

Where the couple have avoided photographs for safety or discretion, the statement should say so, and explain who knows about the relationship and who does not. The evidence of the social aspects should come from the people who do know the couple, such as friends, colleagues and community groups in Australia. Photographs that the couple do have, even if taken privately, can be provided to the Department without being shared more widely.

A partner visa with few photos for new relationships

A newer relationship naturally produces fewer photographs. A couple applying for a partner visa with few photos early in their relationship should focus on showing that the relationship is genuine, committed and continuing, even though it is relatively short. Evidence of living together, shared finances and the involvement of family and friends is especially important.

The relationship statement should explain how the relationship developed, why the couple decided to commit when they did, and what they have built together since. Evidence that continues to accumulate after lodgement, including further photographs taken naturally over time, can be provided later and will be considered at the permanent stage. Our page on the Subclass 820 visa explains the onshore pathway, and our guide to Subclass 820 and Subclass 801 explains how the two stages connect.

A partner visa with few photos combined with other risk factors

A partner visa with few photos is assessed together with every other feature of the relationship. Where the shortage of photographs is combined with a short relationship, a significant age difference, a relationship that began online, time apart, or an earlier visa refusal, the decision maker may look more closely at the whole application. In those cases, the other evidence must be particularly strong, and the statement must address each feature openly. Our guides to Subclass 820 refusal reasons and the Subclass 820 partner visa explain how these features are assessed together.

The sponsor's role in a partner visa with few photos

The Australian sponsor's evidence is especially important in a partner visa with few photos. The sponsor can provide a statement describing the relationship from their side, including occasions with family and friends that were not photographed. The sponsor's family and friends in Australia are often the best Form 888 witnesses, because they have seen the couple together in Australia. Where the sponsor has introduced the applicant to their workplace, sporting club or community, statements or letters from those groups show the social aspects in a way photographs cannot. The sponsor should take an active part in gathering this evidence.

Requests for more information about photographs

If a case officer is not satisfied with the social evidence in a partner visa with few photos, they may request more information under section 56 of the Migration Act 1958. The request may ask for further evidence of the relationship, including photographs, or may ask the couple to explain the gap. A response should provide what is asked for, if it exists, and explain honestly if it does not. It should also point the case officer to the other evidence of the social aspects. Our guide to responding to a section 56 request for more information explains the process.

Where the Department has adverse information, such as a concern that photographs were staged, it may send a natural justice letter under section 57 inviting comment. Our guide to the section 57 natural justice letter for a partner visa explains how to respond. Response periods are short.

Interviews when there are few photographs

A couple who lodge a partner visa with few photos may be more likely to be invited to an interview, because the case officer wants to test the relationship directly. An interview is an opportunity. It allows the couple to show, through their knowledge of each other's lives and their consistent accounts, that the relationship is genuine.

Preparation means each partner reviewing the relationship statement and the evidence, so that their memory of dates and events is refreshed. Questions often cover how the couple met, daily routines, families, work, finances, future plans and particular events. Where photographs are few, the case officer may ask about the occasions that are shown and about why there are not more. Honest, specific answers are the best response.

A partner visa with few photos at the permanent stage

At the permanent Subclass 801 or Subclass 100 stage, the Department assesses whether the relationship is continuing. Couples who lodged a partner visa with few photos at the first stage have the waiting period to build a fuller record. That does not mean staging photographs for the second stage. It means keeping the ordinary records of a shared life: photographs of family events and travel as they happen, updated financial and household documents, and updated Form 888 statements from people who have continued to see the couple.

The permanent stage evidence should be consistent with what was lodged at the first stage. Where the first stage explained that the couple rarely take photographs, the second stage should not suddenly contain hundreds without explanation. A natural increase in evidence over time, consistent with the couple's way of life, is what the decision maker expects to see.

A partner visa with few photos at ART review

If a partner visa is refused and the limited evidence of the social aspects was part of the reasoning, the refusal can usually be reviewed by the Administrative Review Tribunal. The application for review must generally be made within 28 days after the day the person is notified of the decision, and that time limit cannot be extended. The ART decides the matter afresh, considers the evidence at the time of its decision, and usually hears oral evidence from the couple and witnesses.

A review is an opportunity to fill the gaps in a partner visa with few photos with stronger evidence of the social aspects, including witness evidence at the hearing. Our partner visa refusals page, our guide to partner visa refused appeal options and our guide to what to expect at ART review explain the process. For refusals generally, see our visa refusals page.

What Tribunal decisions show about limited evidence

Published Tribunal decisions show that relationships with limited evidence in one area can be accepted as genuine where the evidence as a whole is persuasive. The decisions below were remitted, which means the Tribunal sent the matter back to the Department for reconsideration. A remittal is not a visa grant, and each decision turned on its own facts and evidence.

• Tran (Migration) [2023] AATA 3870. A Subclass 820 matter involving a valid marriage, limited evidence at the time of application, and the financial, household and social aspects of the relationship and the nature of the commitment.
• Carrion Manrique (Migration) [2020] AATA 1688. A Subclass 820 matter involving limited evidence of pooling of financial resources, a limited social life, and family attendance at the couple's wedding.
• Sesay (Migration) [2019] AATA 5976. A Subclass 309 matter following a court remittal, where there were concerns about the little time spent together since the marriage, and the couple represented themselves to others as married and shared housework.
• Marcos (Migration) [2023] AATA 103. A Subclass 309 matter involving limited financial, household and social aspects of the relationship while the couple lived in different countries, and the nature of the commitment.
• Hussain (Migration) [2022] AATA 256. A Subclass 309 matter involving a valid marriage in the home country and limited evidence of the financial, household and social aspects while the couple lived in different countries.
• Koroma (Migration) [2026] ARTA 200. A Subclass 309 matter involving a valid marriage and limited financial, household and social aspects of the relationship while the couple lived in different countries.

These decisions show that limited evidence in one or more areas is not the end of a partner visa. What matters is the whole picture, explained and supported.

Preparing a partner visa with few photos step by step

A partner visa with few photos is best prepared in a deliberate order, so that the strongest evidence leads.

Step one: list every kind of evidence you have

Write down every document across the four aspects of the relationship: financial, household, social and commitment. Include records that seem minor, such as shared memberships or receipts.

Step two: recover what you can

Check devices, backups and the accounts of family and friends for photographs, and gather travel records, invitations and messages.

Step three: identify the gaps

Identify which aspects of the relationship are thinly evidenced, and what can honestly be added, such as Form 888 statements or updated household records.

Step four: prepare the statement

Prepare the relationship statement with a short explanation of why there are few photographs, and with references to the key evidence.

Step five: organise and caption

Group the evidence by aspect, caption each photograph and prepare an index.

Step six: lodge and keep building

Lodge the application, continue keeping the records that a shared life produces, and provide further evidence when appropriate.

Building evidence from now on

A couple preparing a partner visa with few photos should start building evidence now, naturally and honestly. That does not mean staging photographs for the visa. It means keeping the records that a shared life produces:

• keep photographs of ordinary events, such as family gatherings, celebrations and trips, and back them up;
• keep tickets, bookings and receipts for shared travel and activities;
• keep invitations and cards addressed to both partners;
• make sure bills, leases and accounts reflect the shared household;
• keep communication records when apart; and
• ask friends and family to share photographs they take of the couple.

This evidence will be valuable at the first stage, in any response to a request, and at the permanent stage. Changes in circumstances after lodgement, such as a new address, should be notified using Form 1022.

Getting advice on a partner visa with few photos

Advice is most useful before lodgement, while the evidence can still be organised and the gap explained. An initial immigration lawyer consultation can assess whether the evidence as a whole is strong enough. Where the couple have prepared their own application, a second opinion from an immigration lawyer can identify what to add. Our articles comparing a partner visa lawyer with doing it yourself, explaining when you need an immigration lawyer for a partner visa and setting out the difference between a migration agent and an immigration lawyer may help with the choice of representation. Our articles on why partner visas get refused and the most common Subclass 820 refusal reasons explain how evidence gaps feature in refusals.

The application itself is lodged through ImmiAccount. Where a lawyer acts, the Department is notified using Form 956, and a Form 80 may be requested.

How My Migration Lawyers helps with a partner visa with few photos

My Migration Lawyers acts for couples whose relationship evidence does not fit the usual pattern, including couples applying for a partner visa with few photos. The firm deals with complex partner visa cases and acts in many matters of this exact type, including couples whose culture limits photographs, couples who avoid photographs for safety, couples in long distance relationships and couples who lost their records. It is capable of handling these matters from the first review of the evidence through to review at the ART.

The work on a partner visa with few photos usually includes:

• Assessing the evidence. Reviewing all the evidence the couple have, across the four aspects of the relationship, and identifying what carries most weight.
• Finding what exists. Identifying records the couple may not have thought of, such as travel records, memberships, invitations and photographs held by family and friends.
• Explaining the gap. Presenting the couple's own explanation for having few photographs in the relationship statement, in the form the law requires. The statement remains the couple's own account, which they review and correct before it is lodged.
• Witness evidence. Advising on Form 888 statements and letters from people who know the couple.
• Organising the application. Selecting and captioning photographs and organising the evidence so that the decision maker can see the relationship clearly.
• Responses and review. Responding to requests and natural justice letters, and representing the couple at the ART if a refusal has been made.

The firm is led by Weiwei Zhang, Principal Lawyer. You can read more about My Migration Lawyers and our work as immigration lawyers in Australia. We act for couples throughout Australia, including through our partner visa lawyers in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, the Gold Coast, Canberra, Hobart and Parramatta, and our immigration lawyers in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, the Gold Coast, Canberra, Hobart and Parramatta.

The firm does not encourage couples to manufacture evidence. It helps them find and present the evidence their relationship has actually produced, and explains honestly where that evidence is limited and why. That approach protects the couple's credibility at the first stage, the permanent stage and any review.

A partner visa with few photos is decided on the whole relationship, not the photo album. Book a consultation with My Migration Lawyers online, or call 1300 040 300.