I applied for Australian spouse immigration in April this year. I heard that the policy has changed recently and the application time has become longer. I wonder if this will affect my waiting time fo

I applied for Australian spouse immigration in April this year. I heard that the policy has changed recently and the application time has become longer. I wonder if this will affect my waiting time for obtaining a temporary visa. Since you said that you applied for a spouse visa in Australia, you should be able to get a bridge visa A now. If you say that you applied for a temporary visa, then you applied for a temporary spouse visa of 820, and changed it to a permanent spouse visa of 80 1 two years later.

If my analysis above is correct, the waiting time for your application in April is 8- 12 months. You should not have been assigned to CO, or you have just been assigned to CO. If so, any policy changes of the Immigration Bureau will not affect you, including changes caused by non-policy changes such as longer application time.

If you haven't been assigned to CO, the waiting time may be a little longer recently. It is also because the policies of other immigrants such as GSM have been tightened, and more people have turned to spouse immigrants, thus increasing the number of people in this queue. At present, I feel that this has little impact and will not cause great delay in the waiting time of the 820 visa. So you don't have to worry, just wait patiently.

As for your policy change, you read the recent tightening policy of the Chinese newspaper about the increase of spouse visa fees by the Immigration Bureau. That's just the current intention, and it hasn't been implemented yet. And even if it is executed now, it won't have any impact on the case you have already handed in.

So the conclusion is that it doesn't have much impact.