Are you travelling to Australia for a vacation? Or to meet your friends and family? The visitor visa to Australia is ideal for all your business and leisure trips. Australia is one of the most exquisitely beautiful nations in the world, and it has a lot to offer to any traveller. The Sydney Opera House, the Great Barrier Reef, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park are some of the famous tourist sites in Australia.
Depending on your reason for travelling, Australia allows for various visitor visa types, and you can apply for visit visas under Subclass 600/601/651/444/461/417 and 462. To ease brief travel and tourism, the Australian Visitor Visa has three primary subtypes:
01. Tourist Visitor: A tourist visitor comes to Australia to travel or see friends and relatives. Applying for this visa is possible both inside and outside of Australia.
02. Business Visitor: Persons travelling on brief business trips for meetings, negotiations, or other business-related purposes. For this visa, you must apply from outside of Australia.
03. Sponsored Family Visitor: Visitors from outside Australia who are sponsored for a visit visa by an Australian citizen or permanent resident are sponsored family members.
Pro Tip: Parents of Australian citizens and Permanent Residents are given longer-term visitor visas.
Processing Time: Some statistics related to processing time for visitor visas are:
01. Tourist Visit:
25% of applications: Less than 1 day
50% of applications: 6 days
75% of applications: 26 days
90% of applications: 37 days
02. Business Visitor:
25% of applications: Less than 1 day
50% of applications: 3 days
75% of applications: 9 days
90% of applications: 25 days
03. Sponsored Family Visitor:
25% of applications: 28 days
50% of applications: 36 days
75% of applications: 45 days
90% of applications: 50 days
Visa processing times depend on a number of variables, including:
01. Whether your application included all necessary supporting documents.
02. Your response time to inquiries for more details
03. The length of time it takes the authorities to conduct the necessary verifications of the data in your application
04. Time needed to gather more details on your health, character, and national security
Pro Tip: It is advised to submit your visa application well in advance of your intended departure date and to postpone making travel plans until your visa has been approved.
Key points to note about this visa are:
01. You cannot work on this visa
02. This visa allows you to travel and stay across Australia
03. The visa is typically issued for a period between 3 months to one year
Get in touch with our consultants to accurately understand the visa process and travel stress-free with our guidance!
Are you confused about which documents to prepare before applying for a visitor visa to Australia?
Here’s a list of documents you will require and conditions you are required to meet:
01. Any documentation to support that you have sufficient funds to cover the trip costs for the duration of your visit
02. Proof of no criminal record
03. Compliance with all Australian laws
04. Meet all health standards and submit medical records as necessary
05. Show valid documentation and invitation letters from sponsors
06. Meet any other requirements asked for
07. Valid passport
08. Recent passport-size coloured photographs
09. Confirmed return air tickets
10. Trip itinerary
11. Bank statements for a period of 3 to 6 months
12. Travel insurance
13. If visiting relatives or friends, a letter of invitation from the relative or friend in Australia
14. Hotel booking confirmation
