[Echy]

Hello everyone. My wife and I have already gone through the process of applying a visa so that my wife can came back to Australia. Both our passports are due to expire soon so we will need to renew. Will this affect our processing time? And will we need to advise our immigration agent who lodged our application?

 

[Mish]

You will need to renew your passports in order to travel on them as you can't travel on an expired passport.

It should not affect the processing time but you will need to notify DIBP of the change of passport number for your wife as her visa when granted will be linked to her passport number. When you get the new passport you can either notify DIBP yourself or get your agent to notify them.