Visitor Visa Checklist [stream 600 onshore and offshore] Australia Migration Visa

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Please refer to our General Checklist here

https://dlegal.com.au/articles/migration/checklists/general-checklist/

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Genuine visitor documents

Provide as much proof as you can to show you are visiting Australia as a temporary visitor only.

This could include:

• proof you have enough money for your stay and to leave Australia, such as:
  • itemised personal bank statements for a 3 month period
  • pay slips
  • audited accounts
  • tax records
  • term deposits
  • credit card statements
• a letter from your relative or friend in Australia, inviting you to visit. The letter could state:
  • their relationship to you
  • the purpose of your visit and length of stay
  • if you will be staying with them
    If this person will be paying for your stay, provide proof of their funds.
• your plans while in Australia
• proof that you have reasons to return home such as:
  • a letter from your employer stating you plan to return to your job
  • proof that you study at a school, college or university in your home country
  • proof that you have immediate family members in your home country
  • proof that you can return home
  • proof that you own a house or other major assets in your home country
• Evidence of sufficient funds, such as personal bank statements, pay slips, audited accounts, taxation records or credit card limit.
• If you are visiting relatives or friends, a letter of invitation from your relative or friend in Australia. If your relative or friend is paying for your visit, evidence that they have the necessary funds.
• If you are visiting under the Tourist stream: Your itinerary for your stay in Australia.
• Other information to show that you have an incentive and authority to return to your home country, such as:
• • • a letter from your employer stating your intention to return to your job
    • evidence of enrolment at a school, college or university in your home country
    • evidence of immediate family members in your home country
    • evidence of your visa or residence status in your home country, and your right to return
    • evidence of property or other significant assets owned in your home country.

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Additional documents for applicants under 18

If you are under 18, you should provide a copy of your birth certificate showing the names of both parents. If you can’t provide a birth certificate, provide one of the following:

• identification pages of a family book showing the names of both parents
• identification pages of an identification document issued by the government
• identification pages of a court-issued document that proves your identity
• identification pages of a family census register

If somebody other than your biological parents has legal guardianship over you (for example, adoptive parents or a court-appointed guardian), you must provide proof of their legal guardianship.

Provide adoption papers or parental court orders, if applicable.

Anyone with a legal right to decide where you live, and who is not travelling in Australia with you, must complete either:

• Form 1229 – Consent form to grant an Australian visa to a child under the age of 18 years (240KB PDF)
• a statutory declaration giving their consent for you to visit Australia on this visa

Include a document with the signature and photo of the person who completed the form, or declaration, such as a:

• passport
• driver’s licence

In addition to consent information, if you’re not staying with a relative or legal guardian, provide Form 1257 – Undertaking declaration (211KB PDF). The person you’re staying with must sign the form.

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Tourist Stream (Apply Outside Australia) – Additional Documents for Applicant

Additional documents for applicants requesting a longer visa

If you are requesting a longer visa, tell us in your application. This includes parents and stepparents of Australian citizens or permanent residents.

Provide us with further information about the reason for your request.

For example, proof that your child is an Australian citizen or permanent resident.

Children younger than 18 years of age

• If you are younger than 18 years of age: evidence that every person with a legal right to decide where you live consents to your travel to Australia on this visa. If one or both parents are not coming with you, provide:
  • a statutory declaration giving their permission – if relevant please refer to the separate email.
  • Form 1229 Consent form to grant an Australian visa to a child under the age of 18 years – if relevant please refer to the separate email.
    If you use this form, you will have to attach a certified copy of your parent’s or guardian’s government-issued identification document (such as a passport or drivers licence) with their photograph and their signature.
• If you are younger than 18 years of age and you will stay in Australia with someone other than a parent, legal guardian or relative: a declaration signed by the person who will be responsible for you in Australia
• Form 1257 Undertaking declaration – if relevant please refer to the separate email.
  • Evidence of enrolment at school, college or university.

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Documents about other relationships, if applicable

If you have previously been married, widowed, divorced or permanently separated, provide divorce documents, death certificates, separation documents or statutory declarations.

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PERSONAL DOCUMENTS

1.If you or any applicants are married, please provide certified copies of marriage certificate(s) and evidence you are in a genuine and continuing relationship.

2. If you or any applicants have been divorced, please provide certified copies of the divorce document(s).

3. If your spouse/interdependent partner does not intend to migrate with you provide a statement explaining why and if they intend to join you in the future.

4.If you or any applicant has been widowed, please provide a certified copy of the death certificate(s).

5.Evidence of custody arrangements for any children included in the application where one parent is not migrating, including consent from the non-migrating parent for the children to migrate.

6.Two (2) recent passport photographs for all applicants and any dependants who are not migrating.

7.Evidence of any change of name (for example deed poll certificate).

8.Military discharge certificates for any applicant included in the application who has served in the military.

9.Evidence that all applicants aged 16 years or over have applied for a National Police Check in the past 12 months.

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Forms

• A completed application form – Please refer to the separate email.
• • The visa applicant completes Form 1418 Application for a Visitor visa—Sponsored family stream
  • You complete  Form 1149 Application for sponsorship for Sponsored Family Visitors

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Sponsorship documents

If you are being sponsored, provide:

• Sponsor declaration completed by your sponsor
• proof that your sponsor is an Australian citizen, permanent resident or an eligible New Zealand citizen
• proof that your sponsor is usually resident in a designated area of Australia
• proof of your relationship to your sponsor

To prove that your sponsor is an Australian citizen, permanent resident or an eligible New Zealand citizen, provide:

• citizenship certificate, or
• passport bio-data page

To prove your sponsor is usually resident in a designated area of Australia, provide documents such as:

• drivers’ licence
• mortgage/tenancy agreements
• utility bills

To prove the sponsor’s relationship with you, provide their:

• birth certificate
• marriage certificates
• death certificates
• adoption certificates
• family status certificates or family books if officially issued and maintained

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Sponsored family stream

You may sponsor a visa applicant if:

• you are a relative of that visa applicant; or
• you are a relative of a person classed as members of the family unit of that visa applicant, and that person is also applying; or
• that visa applicant is classed as members of the family unit of a person who is also applying and you are a relative of that person.

To be a relative, you must be their:

• partner, parent or child
• brother or sister
• grandparent or grandchild
• aunt or uncle
• niece or nephew
• the step equivalent of the above.

A sponsor can’t be a:

• fiancé or fiancée
• in-law
• cousin
• friend
• New Zealand citizen.

For example:

• If applications have been made by each of your parents and your sister, you may sponsor your parents and your sister at the same time.
• If an application has been made by your brother-in-law and his daughter (your niece), you may also sponsor your brother-in-law.
• If an application has been made by your uncle and his daughter (your cousin), you may also sponsor his daughter.

A sponsor may also be:

• a member of an Australian parliament
• a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory
• a mayor
• a government agency or instrumentality of the Commonwealth or a State or a Territory.

Be an Australian citizen or permanent resident

You must be a settled Australian citizen or permanent resident.

Usually, you must have lived in Australia for the last 2 years. In compelling compassionate circumstances, we might reduce this time.

Pay a security bond

You must be able to pay a security bond if we ask for one.

Bonds:

• are usually between AUD 5,000 and AUD 15,000 per person (but we can ask for any amount)
• must be paid in full before we make a final decision on the visa application
• will be refunded if your visitor complies with their visa conditions and leaves Australia before their visa expires

Limitations on sponsorship

You can’t sponsor a visa applicant if you have sponsored a previous applicant for a subclass 600 visa which was granted and:

• the visa has not expired. You can sponsor that visa applicant if they are:
  • members of the family unit of the previous applicant, and
  • are travelling to Australia for the same purpose as the previous applicant.
• the visa has expired, the previous applicant did not comply with a condition of that visa, and 5 years has not elapsed since it was granted. You can sponsor that visa applicant if the previous applicant did not comply with condition 8531 (must not remain in Australia beyond the visa period) due to circumstances that were beyond their control. This needs to have occurred after they entered Australia.