Fiancee VISA - Final Stage Questions

Manila_Sunset_Store · May 2012

Hi everyone,
I am asking on behalf of my friend who is marrying my wifes cousin from Manila.
He keeps asking me questions, but things were way different back when I got married (yes we had progressed beyond horse and cart by then :-) ).

Anyway, he has a Fiancee VISA application in. It was lodged in November last year and just recently he recieved an email saying that it had reached the final stage.
He was all excited and was asking me what this means. Sadly I have no idea.
Has forum member gone through this and do you have an idea how close it is when you get this notification?

Do both of them still have to go through some interview and, in his case, can it be done here in Australia?

Thank you / Maraming salamat

Brad
PS- I humbly apologise if this has been brought up before. I just joined to ask some questions for him, but it took me 30 minutes just to work out how to post - let alone try to search :-) Apologies in advance.