For 10 years since 1997 Australia has had a foreign spouse quota fixed at 30,000 a year.This quota has now been increased to 50,000 a year.
It takes at least 3 months to process a spouse visa from England and America and it takes up to two years to process one from Vietnam and China.
There is a visitors blacklist on people coming from the following 37 countries to Australia.Visitors can only come from these countries if they have BIG BUCKS.