With the Visitor visa (subclass 600), Business Visitor stream, you can make general business or employment enquiries and negotiate contracts.
You can take part in a conference or trade fair, but you can’t be paid by the organisers to take … Read the rest
The maximum stay in Australia, on a visitor visa, is normally limited to 12 months in each 18 month period.
Exceptional circumstances, to allow more than 12 months out of 18 months as a visitor in Australia, are decided … Read the rest
Visa processing times are released every month telling us what the actual times were in the previous month. This gives an indication of what the current processing times might be.
Half of all subclass 600 (Offshore Tourist stream) visa applications were finalised in … Read the rest
Information from the BR0112 Visitor Visa Program Report year ended 30 June 2021, shows the following grant numbers:
Tourist Visitor visa Grants:
2019-20: 4,056,603
2020-21: 167,576.
Sponsored Family Visitor visa Grants:
2019-20: 27,709
2020-21: 917
Those figures show the massive reduction in grants … Read the rest
There were forty three times as many Tourist Visitor visa grants in the last half of 2019 (before COVID), as there were in the last half of 2020 (during COVID).
Some Visitor Visas have still been granted during the COVID-19 restrictions, however, the processing times have become longer for most countries.
On average the processing times are about 13 times as long as before.
Some examples:
Median … Read the rest
A total of 36,998 subclass 600 Visitor visa applications were lodged, with 9,189 granted.
Subclass 600 visas: Lodged, Granted and Refused from January 2020.
The numbers of subclass 600 visas granted in 2020, varied between 4,637 and 151,813 per month during the year.
The number of refusals varied between 660 and 30,650 per month.
| Jan 2020 | 153,109 | 183,678 |
Due to the COVID-19 travel restrictions imposed in Australia, the numbers of people actually arriving in the country has dropped dramatically.
The Australian Government began to place travel restrictions on those travelling to Australia from 1st February 2020.
The following chart shows an idea of … Read the rest
Some people have been saying that it is impossible to get a Visitor Visa during the Coronavirus.
For many people that might be correct, but…
If you are an immediate family member of either an Australian citizen or permanent resident, you may be eligible … Read the rest
