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Provide the pages of your current passport showing your photo,
personal details, and passport issue and expiry dates.
Also provide:
a
national identity card, if you have one
proof
of change of name
Documents that prove a change
of name include:
a
marriage or divorce certificate
change
of name documents from an Australian Registry of Births, Deaths and
Marriages, or the relevant overseas authority
documents
that show other names you have been known by
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Relationship documents
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If
you are or have been married, widowed, divorced or permanently separated,
provide proof such as divorce documents, death certificates, separation
documents or statutory declarations.
If your partner or dependent children are not
included in this application, tell us the reason why (for example, they
already hold Australian citizenship or are a permanent resident).
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Character documents
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Provide an Australian police certificate if you have
spent a total of 12 months or more in Australia in the last 10 years since you
turned 16.
Only complete disclosure
National Police Certificates issued by the Australian Federal Police are accepted. Standard disclosure certificates or national police
certificates issued by Australian state or territory police are not accepted.
For immigration purposes,
Australian police certificates are valid for 12 months from the date of
issue.
Also provide:
an overseas police certificate from every country,
including
your home country, where you spent a total of 12 months or more in the
last 10 years since you turned 16.
military
service records or discharge papers if you served in the armed forces of
any country
Complete and provide the
following forms:
Form 80 –
Personal particulars for character assessment (554KB PDF)
Form 1221
Additional personal particulars information (290KB PDF)
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Competent English documents
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Provide
proof you have at least competent English at time of invitation for this
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Partner documents
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We need to see evidence of your partner’s identity and
relationship with you.
Provide:
identity
documents and photos
character
documents
marriage
certificate, if applicable
documents
about other relationships, if applicable
For de
facto relationship provide either:
evidence
that your relationship is registered by an Australian State or
Territory
enough
documents to prove you have been in a de facto relationship with your
partner for at least 12 months before you apply
For both married and de facto
applicants you must provide evidence that you are in a genuine and continuing
relationship. Evidence can include but is not limited to:
joint
bank account statements
billing
accounts in joint names
joint
leases or mortgages
documents
that show your partner has lived at the same address as you
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Proof your partner has functional English
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Provide proof
that your partner has at least functional
English.
If you can’t provide functional English documents
If
any of the dependent applicants, who did not pay the second instalment cannot
show evidence of functional English, you will need to pay
the second instalment of the visa application charge for each of
those dependent applicants, when we ask you to.
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Dependants under 18 documents
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For every dependant 18 years old or younger who is applying
with you, provide:
copies
of birth certificates or the family book showing the names of both
parents of all your dependent children
copies
of the adoption paper, if applicable.
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Parental responsibility documents
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You must get consent for a dependent child to migrate to
Australia from anyone who:
You must get consent for any
applicant under 18 years of age to migrate to Australia from anyone who:
has
a legal right to decide where the child lives and
is
not coming to Australia with the child
They must complete either:
Form 1229 Consent form to
grant an Australian visa to a child under the age of 18 years (168KB
PDF)
statutory
declaration giving
their consent for the child to migrate to Australia on this visa
Alternatively, you can show
us:
an
Australian court order that allows your child to migrate to Australia,
or
that
the laws of your home country allow them to migrate
Include:
an
identity document that shows the signature and photo of the person who
completed the form or declaration, such as a passport or driver’s
licence
adoption
papers or other court documents if applicable
You don’t have to prove that
your dependant under 18 years of age has functional English.
Note: If your child is likely
to turn 18 while your application is being processed, you will need to
provide evidence they are dependent on you. See the section ‘Dependants over
18 documents’ below for further information. A child who turns 18 while your
application is being processed and who is not dependent on you cannot satisfy
the criteria for this visa.
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Dependants over 18 documents
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To include your child who is over 18 in your visa application,
they must be:
over
18 years of age but not yet turned 23, and dependent on you or your
partner, or
over
23 years of age and unable to earn a living to support themselves due to
physical or cognitive limitations and dependent on you or your partner
If your child is likely to
turn 23 while your application is being processed, you will need to provide
evidence they are dependent on you due to disability.
Provide:
identity
documents
documents
about their other relationships, if applicable
You must also provide proof
the child is dependent on you.
proof
of your relationship with the dependant such as a birth certificate or
adoption papers
a
completed Form 47a Details
of a child or other dependent family member aged 18 years or over (241KB
PDF)
proof
of financial dependency such as bank statements, money transfers and
rent receipts
if
the child is aged 23 or is likely to turn 23 while your application is
being processed, you must also provide a report from a qualified medical
practitioner that states they are dependent on you or your partner due
to the total or partial loss of their bodily or mental functions
Note: A child who turns 23
while your application is being processed and who does not meet these
requirements cannot satisfy the criteria for this visa.
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Proof your dependant has functional English
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Provide proof
that all dependent applicants aged 18 years and older, have at
least functional English.
If you can’t provide functional English documents
If any of the
dependent applicants, who did not pay the second instalment cannot show
evidence of functional English, you will need to pay the second
instalment of the visa application charge for each of those dependent
applicants, when we ask you to.
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Skills assessment documents
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You must provide documents that support the claims you made in
your EOI. Depending on your claims this could include evidence of your:
skills
assessment
English
language skills
Australian
and/or overseas skilled employment
educational
qualifications
Satisfying
the Australian study requirement
specialist
education
accredited
community language
study
in regional Australia
partner
skills
Professional
Year in Australia
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Medical practitioners
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One of these certificates issued by the Australian Health
Practitioner Regulation Agency:
unconditional
or general medical registration
conditional
specialist registration – which allows you to practice only in your
speciality with no further training or supervision requirements
You must be registered at the
time we invite you to apply.
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Barristers and Solicitors
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Proof
of admission to practice as a lawyer in the relevant state or territory. You
must be admitted to practice at the time we invite you to apply.
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Expression of interest (EOI) documents
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You
must provide documents to prove all of the claims you made in your EOI.
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Sponsor documents
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If you are being sponsored, provide:
Skilled Work
Regional (class PS) 491 (provisional) visa Sponsor declaration (224KB
PDF) completed
by your sponsor
proof
that your sponsor is an eligible relative
proof
that your sponsor has turned 18
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
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, documents you can
provide include, but are not limited to:
drivers
licence
mortgage/tenancy
agreements
utility
bills
To prove the sponsor’s
relationship with you, documents you can provide include, but are not limited
to:
birth
certificate
marriage
certificates
death
certificates
adoption
certificates
family
status certificates or family books if officially issued and maintained
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Nomination documents
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If
you are being nominated you do not need to provide evidence of this with your
application.
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Translate
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Have all non-English documents translated into English.
Translators in Australia must
be accredited by the National
Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters.
Translators outside Australia
do not have to be accredited. But on each translation, they must include
their:
full
name
address
and telephone number
qualifications
and experience in the language they are translating
These details must be in
English.
Note: You do not need to have
any documents certified.
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Scan or photograph
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Scan or photograph all documents (English and non-English) in
colour.
The scans and photos must be
clear.
If a document is more than 1
page, save it all as 1 file.
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