WhatsApp evidence for the Australian partner visa (subclass 820/801 and 309/100)

The four aspects, and where chat evidence fits

Partner visa guidance describes the relationship in terms of four aspects: financial, household, social and commitment. Chat history mostly speaks to the social and commitment aspects — it shows a couple communicates regularly, discusses their lives together, makes plans and refers to each other as partners — rather than the financial or household aspects, which are usually shown through joint accounts, leases and bills.

That means a WhatsApp transcript works best as one exhibit among several, not as the sole piece of evidence. It’s worth pairing it with the other categories of proof your application calls for.

ImmiAccount file-size limits favour a compact PDF

ImmiAccount attachments have practical size limits, and a folder of screenshots — often dozens of high-resolution phone photos — can blow through them quickly, especially once you add photos from the relationship as well. A generated transcript compresses the same conversation into far fewer pages of actual text, which is both easier for a case officer to read and much lighter to upload.

If you also want to include photos sent in the chat, the Case Pass can embed them from a WhatsApp media export directly into the PDF at a reasonable size, rather than you attaching each image as a separate file.

Sampling instead of dumping the whole history

Years of daily messages, exported in full, tend to be less useful to a case officer than a clearly dated sample covering key points in the relationship: the early stages, milestones like meeting family or moving in together, and any periods spent apart, which are often where message history carries the most weight.

The Case Pass lets you set a date range so you can produce a few short, clearly labeled excerpts rather than one enormous file — each with its own cover page showing the exact period covered.

Preparing the exhibit

1. Export the WhatsApp chat, with media if you want photos included — see the iPhone and Android steps.
2. Go to chattoevidence.com and drop the .txt or .zip in; processing happens locally in your browser.
3. Choose the date range for each excerpt you want and rename participants to your actual names if the saved contact names aren’t clear.
4. Generate the PDF with the Case Pass to remove the watermark, embed any photos, and add an exhibit label plus Bates numbering across pages.
5. Check the resulting file size before uploading to ImmiAccount, and split into multiple smaller exhibits if you have several distinct periods to submit.

Why not just upload screenshots

Screenshots are quick to take but slow to review: no consistent timestamps, no page numbers, and a case officer has to open dozens of separate image files in whatever order they were uploaded. A generated PDF keeps the conversation in order with exact timestamps, numbers every page, and reads as a single coherent document rather than a scattered set of attachments.