How to Apply for Australia Tourist Visa

We planned to visit Sydney and maybe Melbourne. But unfortunately, some countries need to apply for tourist visa to be able to enter a certain country. So for a quick guide, here’s How to Apply for Australia Tourist/Visitor Visa.

Go to Australian ImmiAccount and Create a new account to start an application.

1. Click start an application to create an account. You need to create a username and password and an email will be sent to confirm your email address.

2. You can now start answering all the questions online.

3. Save your application and you can go back anytime to finish the application.

4. At the end of the questionnaires, requirements will be based on your answers.

5. If you are traveling in a group, you can create a group name and each of the member should use that. At least you know it will be process at the same time. That’s happened in our case.

6. Here’s the list of requirements that needs to be uploaded. Some are just optional.

As I’ve said, this may vary, like if you are supporting or inviting someone. There can be an additional documents to be uploaded.

• Here’s the guide for the photograph passport.  It’s the same size with Canada Tourist Visa photograph passport
• For the travel documents, you need to upload a scanned or picture of your passport.
• Evidence of the applicant’s previous travel. Include the stamps in your current passport and old passport. We created 2 word documents for it.
• Family register and composition form. You can download a Form 54 and fill out the form, then just upload a scanned copy or picture of it. Since the form is encrypted and cannot be uploaded.
• Evidence of planned tourism activities in Australia. Plot your itineraries/activities in a document. Here’s an example of our itinerary.

• Evidence of the financial Status and funding for visit. Request for a Certificate of Employment, 3 recent payslips, Tax slips (optional), Bank Statement or Bank Certificate.
• Visa for country of residence (and right to return). This will be your passport or if you’re a permanent resident of another country, this should be included too.
• Evidence of current employment or self employment. This pertains to certificate of employment, payslips, if you have a letter of approved vacation leaves, you can add it too.
• Group details (group name list itinerary). If you already booked a tour, you may attached the confirmation of it. – we didn’t attach any documents as we didn’t avail any tour groups .
• Exceptional reasons for extended stay in Australia as a Visitor (beyond 12 months). – we didn’t attached any documents on this one, since we are not planning to extend our stay.

Once you have reviewed your application and attached all the required documents, you are ready to submit your application at any time. And pay a $140 AUD for the processing fee.

Once you submit your application, there will be an email for your receipt and all you need to do is wait. It might take 15-27 days to process the application. But in our case, it took 1 week. We received our visa (granted) in email. This will need to be printed and presented in immigration officer when it’s time to visit Australia. The validity we got in our visa is 1 year with 3 month length of stay in each arrival (multiple entries).

Here’s the sample Australia Tourist Visa