Visitor Visa
Visitor Visa allows the applicant to visit Australia for personal purposes. The purpose of the visit can range from visiting family, tourism, exploring, medicals to sports purposes or business-related activities, examinations, job interviews.
Applying for a visitor visa requires strong experience in immigration processing and laws pertaining to the same.
Eligibility
- Meet our health requirement
- Meet our character requirement
- Have enough money
- Be a genuine visitor
- You can only apply online if you are in Australia and hold a substantive visa
- Have paid back your debt to the Australian Government
Stay
- Tourist stream (in Australia): 12 months
- Tourist stream (outside Australia): 12 months
- Sponsored family stream: 12 months
- Business visitor stream: 3 months
- Approved Destination Status stream: specified in grant letter
- Frequent traveller stream: 10 years (3 months each time you enter the country)
Processing Time
- Tourist stream (in Australia): 75% — 5 months and 90% — 8 months
- Tourist stream (outside Australia): 75% — 5 months and 90% — 8 months
- Sponsored family stream: 75% — 6 months and 90% — 12 months
- Business visitor stream: 75% — 5 days and 90% — 21 days
- Approved Destination Status stream: not available
- Frequent traveller stream: not available