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Find the Australian visa help you need now.

Choose the stage you are at, then check the passport and residence details that matter to your own application. Each guide points back to current official instructions.

Start with your circumstances

Not sure which guide fits? Choose the citizenship on the passport you will use, where you live and your real purpose of travel. The planner gives a starting route and local follow-up links. The government visa page and your own request letters remain the authority.

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1. Choose the right visa route

Begin with what you plan to do in Australia. A short visit, a course, work and joining family have different rules; the travel passport can change which routes are open.

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VISIT OR TRANSIT

Short journeys

Visitor 600 Tourist guide
Tourist vs Sponsored Family
ETA 601 vs eVisitor 651
New Zealand citizen: SCV 444
Meetings and conferences
Airport transit and visa 771

STUDY OR WORK

Purpose first

Student visa 500
Student 500 course and provider changes
Student 500 financial capacity
Student 500 OSHC health cover
Student Guardian 590
Visitor to Student onshore rule
Genuine Student answers
Temporary Graduate 485
Short-term work 400 vs business visits
Work visa starting points
Skilled visas 189, 190 and 491
SkillSelect EOI steps
Employer visas 482, 186 and 494
Training 407 programme and application preparation
Working Holiday 417 vs 462
First 462 passport requirements

MEDICAL TRAVEL

Treatment, donation or supporting a patient

Medical Treatment 602 preparation
Choose my document and residence for a medical-travel checklist

FAMILY

Visit or live together?

Family visa options
Partner visa 309 vs 820
A parent visiting Australia

Official visa finder

2. Prepare what your route actually requests

Use the chosen visa page and your ImmiAccount document list as the final checklist. These guides help you organise genuine evidence without claiming a universal set of attachments.

Student 500 English test and exemption guide → · Student 500 partner and child guide →

VISITOR EVIDENCE

Explain a real trip

Visitor document guide
Funds and bank records
Work, study and return evidence
Invitation letter
Child consent and care

FILES AND CHECKS

Respond to the right request

Translations and uploads
Biometrics request
Health examinations
Police certificates
Visitor health cover

PRIVATE WORKSHEETS

Keep your own records

Passport-and-residence checklist
Free printable and editable templates
Student 500 evidence and finance steps

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3. Lodge and respond while waiting

Keep access to the channel for your chosen visa: the Australian ETA app for an ETA, or ImmiAccount when the visa is lodged there. Read each request and deadline, report an original mistake or later change through the correct action, and use the exact visa's travel-location rule.

APPLICATION ACCOUNT

Manage your details

Visa grant and arrival preparation
ImmiAccount status and requests
Correct a submitted mistake
New passport after applying
Baby born during an application

TIMING AND TRAVEL

Check before a decision

What processing times mean
Travel while an application is pending
Withdraw an application

PAYMENT AND SAFETY

Use official channels

Visa costs and refunds
Check an agent or a claimed grant

4. Check the written decision and travel conditions

A submitted application, completed biometrics appointment or status label is not a visa grant. Read the complete decision, then check the passport, dates, stay and conditions that apply to you.

GRANTED

Before you depart

Read the grant and VEVO
Visitor entries and stay period
Which passport to travel on?

REFUSED OR STAYING LONGER

Read the actual conditions

After a visa refusal
Visitor 600 and No Further Stay

INDEPENDENT CHECK

Verify before paying or travelling

Agent, payment and grant checks
Official VEVO check

PASSPORT AND RESIDENCE

Use both places, for different questions.

Passport guides cover route-specific starting points. Your residence can affect evidence and local follow-up. If they differ, read the cross-country guide too.

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