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VISITOR VISAS
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Please Note: All
forms mentioned are available from the Forms Index List on the Department
of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) website:www.immi.gov.au/allforms/
or from VFS.
BUSINESS (SHORT STAY)
The information on this page is specific to applicants in Bangladesh.
Who should apply?
A Business (Short Stay) visa (subclass 456) allows people to make short visits
to Australia for genuine business purposes. This may include exploring business
opportunities in Australia; conducting business negotiations, site visits or
equipment inspections; signing business contracts; and attending conference or
meetings in relation to their field of employment.
The visa is also intended for amateur or professional sports people, including
players, coaches and umpires who will engage in sporting competition or
training for a short duration. Persons intending to enter Australia for a short
duration as public lecturers and models and mannequins under contract for
advertising and promotion should also apply for this visa.
Please note that persons wishing to attend conferences related to their work or
area of specialisation should apply for a Business (short stay) visa, subclass
456, even where they also intend to visit Australia for the purposes of
tourism.
Who should not apply?
You should not apply for this type of visa if you are intending to enter
Australia as a tourist, student, religious worker, or to work as an entertainer
or medical practitioner, or if you intend to seek medical treatment in
Australia.
Assessment factors
The purpose of the visit should be genuine, realistic and relevant to your
business circumstances in your home country. This visa does not allow a
business visitor to carry out work:
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which can be done by someone in the Australian labour market; or
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has other adverse consequences for the local labour market.
A Short Stay Business Visa allows a visitor to stay for up to three months in
Australia. It does not allow a business visitor to remain in Australia for a
long-term assignment. If further stay in Australia for business purposes is
required then an application for a temporary Business (Long Stay) visa (457) or
another appropriate type of visa should be made. See the Department of
Immigration and Citizenship website
www.immi.gov.au/skilled/skilled-workers/visa-temporary.htm
Who should apply?
Medical treatment visas provide for persons seeking medical treatment, either
elective or emergency, in Australia. If you are accompanying a person
undergoing medical treatment you should also apply for this type of visa. Short
stay medical treatment visas (subclass 675) allow a stay of up to 3 months.
Long stay medical treatment visas (subclass 685) allow a stay over 3 months.
TOURIST
The information on this page is specific to applicants in Bangladesh.
Who should apply?
The Tourist (subclass 676) visa provides for the temporary entry and stay of
persons wishing to visit Australia for short periods for tourism, or seeing
relatives and friends, or undertaking a maximum of three months study in
Australia.
The visitor visa has conditions of entry that visitors must observe. Visitors
to Australia are, for example, not permitted to conduct business or work, and
are required to depart Australia within the validity of their visa.
Please note that persons wishing to attend conferences related to their work or
area of specialisation should apply for a Business (Short Stay) visa, subclass
456, even where they also intend to visit Australia for the purposes of
tourism.
Assessment factors
Under Australian migration legislation, a decision maker must be satisfied that
an applicant for this type of visa intends a genuine visit to Australia. If the
decision maker is not satisfied of this intention, the visa must not be granted
Assurances and declarations from a third party are factors in the overall
assessment and will be taken into account by the decision maker but, by
themselves they are not sufficient evidence of a genuine visit. The onus is
always on the applicant to demonstrate an intention to make a genuine visit.
Relevant considerations in testing whether the applicant intends a genuine
visit are the applicant's personal circumstances, their situation in their
country of citizenship and/or usual residence and the situation of any person
who supports their visit. These factors include (but are not limited to):
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the level of personal, financial, employment and other commitments which may
induce the applicant to return to his or her country of usual residence;
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the applicant's personal circumstances or other conditions in their home
country which may encourage the applicant to stay in Australia, including the
applicant's economic situation, personal ties to Australia and civil or
economic disruption in the applicant's home country;
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the applicant's immigration history, including their previous overseas travel
to Australia and other countries and history of compliance with, or breach of,
immigration law by the applicant;
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the credibility of the applicant in terms of character and conduct;
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whether the purpose of the applicant's visit, the duration of stay proposed and
any other plans which the applicant has made for the visit are consistent with
tourism/visiting friends and relatives and with any period of leave from their
employment;
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information disclosed in the application or otherwise obtained which indicates
a reasonable likelihood that the applicant will not abide by visa conditions.
Applicants must also satisfy the decision-maker that they have funds of their
own, or access to adequate funds, to cover the period of stay they are seeking
and the activities they are proposing to undertake. If an applicant indicates
he/she will be meeting part or all of the expenses during the proposed visit,
independent evidence in the form of bank statements will be required.
The decision-making officer must also have regard to public interest criterion
4011 of the Migration Regulations where it is applicable. This criterion is
also known as the risk factor criterion. This criterion requires that persons
who have certain characteristics in common with people identified as presenting
a relatively high risk of overstay must satisfy the decision-maker that there
is very little likelihood that they will overstay their visas. Applicants who
are subject to criterion 4011 are identified by objective criteria. These are:
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persons who have applied for permanent residence in the 5 years prior to making
an application; or
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persons who have characteristics relating to nationality, age, sex, marital
status, occupation and type of visa they are applying for, in common with a
profile of people shown by statistics to have overstayed in Australia.
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TRANSIT VISA
The information
on this page is specific to applicants in Bangladesh.
Who should apply?
The Transit Visa (Subclass 771) is for persons, other than Australian and New
Zealand citizens and persons who eligible for the Electronic Travel Authority
(ETA), who are transiting Australia to another country or passing through
Australia to join a ship as crew.
In general a transit visa is required even if a traveller remains on the same
aircraft in the same airport. The visa is valid for up to 72 hours. Bangladesh
passport holders must hold a valid visa for any period of transit at an
Australian port.
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