student visasStudent visas allow a person and the person’s family to live and work in Australia.

Student visas and training visas can be temporary studying and training visas and permanent visas and allow applicants to live, study, and work in Australia.

The student visas visas we can offer advice and assistance with include:

  1. Student visa (subclass 500); and
  2. Student Guardian visa (subclass 590).

Requirements for Student Visas

Some of the requirements for student visas include:

  1. Be a certain age;
  2. Be enrolled in a course of study and provide evidence;
  3. Make welfare arrangements if you are under 18 years;
  4. Meet English language requirements;
  5. Have adequate health insurance;
  6. Have not held a certain visa;
  7. Have enough money for your stay;
  8. Be a genuine temporary entrant;
  9. Meet our character requirement;
  10. Meet our health requirement;
  11. Not have had a visa cancelled or a previous application refused.

Obviously, different visas have different combination of the above requirements.  Contact us to discuss your requirements.

I will discuss these requirements for student visas a little further below.

Be a Certain Age for Student Visas

If the applicant is a school student they must be aged six (6) or older to apply for this visa.

The applicant must also be:

  1. less than 17 years old when you begin Year 9
  2. less than 18 years old when you begin Year 10
  3. less than 19 years old when you begin Year 11 
  4. less than 20 years old when you begin Year 12 

Be Enrolled in a Course of Study

The student applicant must also be enrolled in a course of study.

The applicant must be enrolled in a full time course registered on the Commonwealth Register of Institutions and courses for Overseas Students (CRICOS) – http://cricos.education.gov.au/

There are a few exceptions where an applicant does not need to provide a Confirmation of Enrolment (CoE).

Contact us for more information in relation to CRICOS approved courses of study.

Make Welfare Arrangements for under 18’s

If you are applying for a student visa and you are under 18 years of age, you must have adequate welfare arrangements in place while you are in Australia.

An applicant must have welfare arrangements in place until they turn 18, even if they turn 18 before your course starts.

Meet English Language Requirements

A student visa applicant might need to provide evidence of English language skills.

If an applicant needs to provide evidence of their English language skill, the applicant must provide evidence that they:

  1. Have obtained a certain test score in an English language test that the Department has approved
  2. Have completed certain eligible studies in English, or
  3. Fall into an exemption category

Have Adequate Health Insurance

For some family visas, an applicant must have and maintain adequate health cover for the whole of their stay if you are granted this visa.

The insurance should cover the applicant for medically necessary treatment, including transport.

Adequate health insurance for visa holders must include and adequately deal with:

  1. Public hospital
  2. Surgically implanted prostheses
  3. Pharmacy
  4. Medical services
  5. Ambulance services
  6. Informed financial consent
  7. Waiting periods
  8. Excluded treatments
  9. Global annual benefit limits
  10. Out-of-hospital cover
  11. Excess, co-payment or patient contribution
  12. Portability
  13. Buy-out clauses
  14. Arrears

Click here for more information – https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/help-support/meeting-our-requirements/health/adequate-health-insurance

Have Enough Money for the Stay

You must have enough money to pay for your stay in Australia.  An student visas applicants must be able to provide:

  1. Evidence you have enough money for your stay;
  2. Enough money to cover costs and expenses;
  3. Annual income; and
  4. Work out how much money you need.

An applicant must take into consideration living costs, study course fees, schooling costs, and travel costs

Be a Genuine Temporary Entrant

All applicants for student visas must show they are coming to Australia temporarily to gain a quality education.

The Genuine Temporary Entrant (GTE) requirement is not intended to exclude students who, after studying in Australia, develop skills Australia needs and who then go on to apply for permanent residence.

Write a personal statement addressing the GTE requirement should include (amongst other things):

  1. Previous study;
  2. Gap in previous study;
  3. Current employment;
  4. Ties to home country or country of residence;
  5. Economic situation in home country or country of residence;
  6. Employment in a third country;
  7. Potential situation in Australia;
  8. Value of the course to your future; and
  9. Your immigration history.

Meet Health Requirement

To meet the health requirement, an applicant must not have a disease or condition that:

  1. A cost to healthcare and/or community service of AUD $49,000 or more; and/or
  2. Prejudices access to scarce health services to Australians in services including most commonly cancer, functional impairment, HIV infection, intellectual impairment, renal disease or failure.

Some of the test for the business visas may include:

  1. Chest x-ray;
  2. Hepatitis b and c test;
  3. HIV test;
  4. Medical examination; and
  5. TB screening test.

This is not required in all cases but depends on where the applicant is coming from and what they intend to do when in Australia.

A student visa applicant must also meet the character requirements of the visa.

Character Requirements for Student Visas

The character requirements mean that the applicant and others included in the application must be of good character and must remain of good character.

The character requirements include (but not limited to) whether:

  1. You have been sentenced to a term, or two or more terms, of imprisonment of 12 months or more;
  2. You are or have been a member of, or have an association with, a person or group or organisation that are involved in criminal conduct;
  3. Serious crimes such as crimes against humanity, crimes involving torture or slavery, genocide, people smuggling, people trafficking, sexually based offences involving a child, and/or war crimes, ect; and/or
  4. Received an adverse security assessment by ASIO.

For more information, the character requirements are provided at section 501 of the Migration Act 1958.

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