Medical Treatment

Overview

Visa Options

For people to travel to Australia for medical treatment for up to 12 months.

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What's New?

From 1 July 2012, all Medical Treatment visa applications lodged by clients in Australia will be processed at the ACT & Regions Office in Canberra.

Living in Australia

Overview

The Living in Australia web pages contain information and publications about life in Australia, and links to government settlement services including help learning English. These web pages also provide information about Australian values and the cultural diversity of Australia's people.

Australian Values

The Australian government believes that new residents should be encouraged to learn as much as they can about their new country, its heritage, language, customs, values and way of life and to apply for Australian citizenship when they become eligible.

Australian Values Statement

From 15 October 2007, all applicants aged 18 years and over are required to sign a values statement when applying for selected visas. The statement requires applicants to confirm that they will respect the Australian way of life and obey the laws of Australia before being granted a visa.

Who does it apply to?

For most visa applicants the Australian Values Statement is included in the application form. There are two different values statements. The statement applicants will be required to sign depends on the visa they are applying for.

All provisional, permanent and a small number of temporary visa applicants are required to have read or had explained to them information provided by the Australian government before signing the values statement. This information is contained in the Life in Australia book.

For all other temporary visa applicants the Australian Values Statement is included in the general declaration section of their application form.

People currently outside Australia who are applying for a Humanitarian visa are required to sign the values statement at interview. These applicants will not be expected to have read the Life in Australia book, as the contents of the book will be explained to them at interview. This different process recognises the difficult circumstances often faced by Humanitarian visa applicants outside Australia.
There is a small group of visas that do not require the Australian Values Statement. This group includes and is not limited to:

• Visitor visas
• New Zealand citizens entering Australian on a special category visa

More information about which visas require the Australian Values Statement to be signed is available in the Values Statement Visa Selector. For more information click here

Student Visa Processing Times

The table below details the processing time service standards for visas for studying in Australia.
Note: We aim to process applications within these service standards, however, actual processing times may vary depending on a range of factors.

Visa application	Lodged in Australia		Lodged outside Australia
Assessment Level	Level 1 or 2	Level 3 or 4	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3 or 4
Students (subclass 570, 571, 572, 573, 574, 575, 576, 580) Note: Student Guardian visa processing times are based on the Assessment Level of the nominating student.	14 days	1 month	14 days	21 days	3 months
Students: permission to work	7 days	7 days	n/a

Assessment Levels: Student visa Assessment Levels are determined by the passport you hold and the visa subclass you are applying for.

Streamlined visa processing

Streamlined visa processing commenced on 24 March 2012. Processing time information is currently being developed and will be available shortly.

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Planning to apply for an Australian visa online?

The Australian visa application is a precise and meticulous process that entails time, patience and understanding. It can also bring out confusion, time-wasting, frustration and can be costly for applicants especially those who are not confident to tackle the complexities of the visa application process.

Now, the Australian immigration policies, regulations and guidelines in all its technicalities are basically very strict and specific, causing visa applicants who are unaware of all of the conditions to easily lodge an invalid application.

Consultant for Australia

Along with it continuing to become more extremely complex and continually changing, becoming much stricter, making migrating to Australia a much more complicated and complex process, it has now become increasingly more difficult for applicants to prepare and lodge an informed Australia visa application.

Therefore, there is now a need for applicants to be well-versed in these complexities of the Australian immigration laws and Australian visa requirements if you want to have a high chance of getting a successful visa approval.

Fortunately, if you do not feel confident in lodging a visa application, or if you do not have the time, resources or expertise to prepare and lodge a visa application by yourself, or if your case is complex, the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) does allow and recommend you to engage a registered migration agent to assist with your visa application and help you in your dealings with the department.

A registered migration agent is regulated by a governing authority called who ensures that only suitable persons are registered as migration agents, and these registered agents maintain appropriate knowledge to enable them to provide accurate immigration advice to their clients.

In applying for a visa, you potentially have only one chance at success as well as at disappointment, time wasting, and the expensive costs of the visa application. It is imperative for you to really ensure that you firstly apply for the right visa, and secondly, use the most appropriate approach, guaranteeing you with a high chance of a successful visa grant. This can be done by engaging the services of a reputable registered migration agent.

Such reputable registered migration agents have a good knowledge of migration laws, its complexities and the criteria applicable to presenting a valid and accurate immigration application. They also know how to best compile, prepare and present your case to the department of immigration; thus, ensuring the best approach was used in gaining a successful visa grant.

Future Concern can also give you advice on the most appropriate visa for you, ensuring that you apply for the most appropriate visa, as visa applicants are not always aware of the most suitable visa for their circumstances because of the numerous visa subclasses and the ever-changing immigration laws.

They will also ensure that you have stated the correct information on the many application forms as well have presented the correct supporting evidence and submit a substantial submission with your application, making sure that every single aspect of the applicable law, regulations and procedures in relation to your case and the supporting evidence you supplied are addressed and accounted for as incomplete or inaccurate visa applications will lead to time delays and may possibly require re-application which is especially critical given that the government will not refund application fees.

With these situations in mind, if you’re planning to engage the services of a registered Future Concern, National Visas, Australia’s top leading world-class online Australian immigration expert, does have a team of Australia’s most experienced registered migration agents.

With their high level of experience and specific knowledge of the all the complexities of the immigration process, National Visas registered migration agents can well represent you through the entire potentially challenging, stressful and lengthy Australian immigration process, easily tailoring your visa applications to suit your individual visa requirements and situation and reducing your exposure to such confusing and stressful elements of the visa application process, making your visa application easier and hassle-free.

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