Returning to Australia on a BVB.
When immigration grants your BVB, they will tell you when the specified travel period will end.
If you hold a BVB where the specified travel period has ended, but you need to travel outside Australia again, you will have to apply for another BVB, and be granted this visa BEFORE leaving Australia.
If you are outside Australia when the specified travel period on your BVB ends, the visa will cease.
You are NOT able to return to Australia with a ceased BVB.
What is a BVB?
The Subclass 020 Bridging visa B (BVB) allows you to leave and return to Australia, during a specified travel period, while your application for a substantive visa is being processed.
With the BVB, you can:
- stay lawfully in Australia until your substantive visa application is finally determined, or, where granted in association with judicial review, until those proceedings are completed.
- leave and return to Australia within the defined travel period while your application for a substantive visa is being processed.
- work, if your BVB permits.
Processing Times for BVB?
There are no government issued processing times available for this visa.
In December 2024, I have seen BVB’s granted in 3 days, and 14 days.
BVB Location for Application / Grant.
- You must be in Australia when you apply for this visa.
- You must be the holder of a BVA or a BVB.
- You must have applied in Australia for a substantive visa that can be granted while you are in Australia.
- You must be in Australia at the time of grant, if you meet all eligibility requirements.