What is Form 1436?
Form 1436 is Home Affairs’ “Adding an additional applicant after lodgement – Details and payment form”, with design date 11/20. It is used after an application has been lodged but before a decision, only for visas that allow an additional applicant to be added.
Who can be added with Form 1436?
Home Affairs’ Form 1436 limits who can be added to:
- The main applicant’s spouse or de facto partner.
- The main applicant’s dependent child.
Anyone else generally needs their own visa application and must pay the base application charge.
Under regulation 1.03 of the Migration Regulations 1994, in the 1 July 2026 compilation, a dependent child is a child or step-child who is not engaged, married or in a de facto relationship, and is either under 18 or aged 18 or over and dependent on the person or incapacitated for work. This general definition does not replace the particular visa’s family criteria.
How to add a family member with Form 1436
Check eligibility. Home Affairs’ Form 1436 requires the person to be the main applicant’s partner or dependent child, and the visa must allow adding an applicant after lodgement.
Complete Form 1436. Use Home Affairs’ details and payment form for the additional applicant.
Attach it in ImmiAccount. Home Affairs’ National Innovation visa page directs applicants to attach Form 1436 to the existing application.
Pay the additional applicant charge in “My Payments”. Part E of Form 1436 says the total charge must be paid; without payment, the application is not valid.
Identify the deemed application date. Under regulation 2.08A(1) of the Migration Regulations 1994, the person is taken to have applied on the later of the written request date and payment date, and their application is combined with the original. The person must also meet Schedule 1’s location requirements.
Check the secondary applicant criteria. Regulation 2.08A(2) requires the added person to meet the relevant application-date and decision-date criteria.
Paying for an added applicant
Part E of Home Affairs’ Form 1436 separates the additional applicant charge into two age groups: 18 or over and under 18 at lodgement. Payment is made through ImmiAccount’s “My Payments”; the applicable total must be paid for the application to be valid.
Submitting the details alone is therefore not enough. Under regulation 2.08A(1) of the Migration Regulations 1994, both the written request and payment are needed for the added person to be taken to have applied.
The deemed-application date trap
The deemed application date is the later of the request date and payment date, not the date of the main applicant’s original application. Regulation 2.08A(2) of the Migration Regulations 1994, in the 1 July 2026 compilation, requires the added person to meet secondary time-of-application criteria on that later date, then time-of-decision criteria when the application is decided.
For example, applying regulation 2.08A(2) together with regulation 1.12(2)(b)(ii), a child added after turning 18 must already meet the relevant dependency requirement on the deemed date. Being under 18 when the parent applied does not preserve that earlier age for the added child.
As a practical precaution, lodge the request and pay on the same day so the dates do not drift apart. This follows from regulation 2.08A(1)’s later-date rule; it does not replace checking eligibility on that date.
Adding a partner or child to an 858 before the decision (not if the primary applicant is under 18)
Home Affairs’ National Innovation visa page, updated 4 September 2026, allows family members to be added before the decision using Form 1436 attached in ImmiAccount. If the primary applicant is under 18, family must instead be included at lodgement.
Under Schedule 1 item 1113 of the Migration Regulations 1994, from 1 July 2026, the additional applicant charge is $3,120 for each person aged 18 or over and $1,560 for each person under 18.
Home Affairs’ National Innovation visa page requires a de facto partner to have a registered relationship or 12 months in the de facto relationship before applying, with a genuine and continuing relationship. Applying regulation 2.08A(2), that application-date requirement is assessed on the added partner’s deemed date. Children aged 18–22 must meet the Department’s dependency requirement.
An added applicant aged 18 or over at application who is assessed as not having functional English also faces a $4,890 second instalment under item 1113(2)(b), from 1 July 2026. The specified family-violence exceptions carry a nil second instalment.
Newborns are not added by Form 1436
A baby born after the application and before the decision is taken to have applied under regulation 2.08 of the Migration Regulations 1994, in the 1 July 2026 compilation, and their application is combined with the parent’s. Form 1436 is not the process for adding that newborn.
Report the birth as a change in circumstances instead, using the relevant ImmiAccount process or Form 1022, as explained by Home Affairs’ National Innovation visa and “After you apply” pages.
Frequently asked questions
What is Form 1436 in Australia?
It is Home Affairs’ details and payment form for adding a partner or dependent child after lodgement and before a decision, where the visa allows it.
When does an added person count as having applied?
Under regulation 2.08A(1), on the later of the written request date and payment date.
Do I use Form 1436 for a baby born after I applied?
No. Regulation 2.08 treats the baby as having applied; Home Affairs requires the birth to be reported as a change in circumstances.
Can I add my parents with Form 1436?
No. Home Affairs’ Form 1436 covers only a partner or dependent child; anyone else generally needs their own application.
How much does it cost to add family to an 858?
Item 1113 sets the charges from 1 July 2026 at $3,120 per person aged 18 or over and $1,560 per person under 18.
Adding family to an 858 application
Under regulation 1.12(2) of the Migration Regulations 1994, the family unit includes a partner, qualifying dependent children and their dependent children.
Home Affairs’ National Innovation visa page requires consent from a non-migrating person with legal rights over where a child under 18 lives, using Form 1229 or a statutory declaration, or an appropriate court order.
Home Affairs’ Form 47a must be completed by each family member aged 18 or over, whether migrating or not.
See adding 858 visa family members for the family requirements in context, and the 858 visa guide for the wider application process.
Ask an Australian migration lawyer to check the Form 1436 request and payment dates together, then assess each added family member’s eligibility and supporting evidence against the later date.