The number of unprocessed visa applications from the partners of Australians has ballooned to almost 100,000.


Luke Kinsella writing in the Australian Financial Review on January 6th, 2026, reported that:

 

‘The number of unprocessed applications from the spouses of Australian citizens has ballooned to almost 100,000, as pressure from record-high net overseas migration creates unprecedented backlogs in the visa system.

The pile of unprocessed applications has grown by 72 per cent under Labor, due to limits maintained by the Albanese government that were described as “cruel” and “illegal” by Labor’s assistant minister for multicultural affairs, Julian Hill, when the Coalition was in power.’

 

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Ross McDougall.

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This information is correct on January 30th, 2026.  But keep in mind that immigration law changes from time to time.

 

 

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