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Australian Visa Application: Your Impact on Visa Processing Time
Visa processing time is the average time the Department of Immigration and registered migration companies take to handle visa lodgements up to approval. Considered unique and of equal urgency among all applicants, visa applications are processed using time service standards that are linked to the Portfolio Budget Statements. Simply, the department can only assign migration [...]
My URGENT Application!
Unless you are an Australian citizen, you must have a Visa to enter Australia! So you’ve just realised that you have no Visa arranged for your trip. You have left your Visa to the last minute and now you are panicking that you are going to have to change or cancel your flights, hotel bookings [...]
Applying for a visa onshore while unlawful or as a bridging visa holder
You’ve looked at all the requirements for a visa and ticked off each one as being met. Satisfied of your eligibility, you’ve lodged the visa application, confident of a positive outcome. You open your email months later and find correspondence from the Department of Immigration. They have asked you for a “Statement regarding additional criteria [...]
Australia adds more countries eligible for online visitor visa application
The Department of Immigration has updated its list of countries eligible for online Visitor visa application, now extending the total to 118 from the previous 67. The Australian Visitor (subclass 600) visa, which replaced the Tourist (subclass 676) visa beginning 23 March 2013, allows people holding a valid passport from eligible countries to visit Australia [...]
ETA: The easiest way to travel to Australia
Australia is arguably one of the easiest countries to travel as a tourist. The country willingly allows visitors to enjoy its natural wonders and experience its great cultural diversity using the innovative Electronic Travel Authority (ETA) visa. This visa permits people from eligible countries to have short-term visits to Australia within the attached validity period. [...]
Australia for Chinese visitors
Tourism Research Australia surveyed a group of Chinese visitors in 2013 to share their thoughts on the different aspects of Australian tourism. Undertaken on behalf of Tourism Australia, the study showed that Australia is performing well in capturing its fastest growing inbound tourism market. Below are the significant findings of the study: The research The [...]
Exciting summer travel in Australia
It is not only that Australia has a warm Christmas and New Year, but this great continent also sends locals and foreigners to the inviting summer outdoors during the holiday season. The country’s diversity makes every season enjoyable, but it becomes extra special in summer when people go out to swim, trek, drive and do [...]
Australian Visitor Visas – Volunteer work allowed
As you may be aware, Australian visitor visas are subject to condition 8101, which is the ‘no work’ condition. This condition basically prevents you from engaging in paid employment in Australia. We are often contacted by applicants who want to know if they can do any type of work in Australia while holding a visitor [...]
Australian Visitor Visas – Apply now for Christmas!
People often talk about how Christmas seems to come earlier and earlier each year, particularly when discussing the retail environment! With visas to Australia you can be assured of one thing being constant at this time of year; the Department of Immigration receives a huge influx of visas from November to December for the hundreds [...]
Australian Visitor Visas – “onshore” extension information
At National Visas we are regularly contacted by clients who are in Australia and enjoying themselves, so naturally they would like to extend their stay as a visitor or tourist, or to spend more time with their Australian relative or partner. Before applying for a visitor visa from inside Australia, there are a number of [...]
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