Skilled Work Regional Provisional Visa is a temporary visa. It is for skilled workers who want to live and work in territory Australia.
With this visa you can
- stay in Australia for five years from the date we award you the visa
- live, work and study in an nominated territory of Australia
- travel to and from Australia the same number of times as you want, while the visa is legitimate
- give application for permanent residence, if qualified, through the Permanent Residence (Skilled Regional) visa (subclass 191) – which starts on 16 November 2022.
Designated regional area
You and all individuals from your family, who are also holders of the visa, will need to live work and study in an nominated territorial region of Australia. Your nomination should not be withdrawn, or you won’t be awarded the visa.
How long you can stay
This is a provisional visa. You can stay in Australia for five years from the date we award your visa.
Stay longer
You can’t stay in Australia longer by expanding this visa. Discover your visa options.
Include family
You can add members from the family in your application. You can:
- add them when you present your visa application
- add a dependent kid after you submit but before we decide on your visa application.
Family members who give application for the visa have to complete our health and character prerequisites.
Family members not going with you to Australia may also have to complete our health and character necessities.
In case your partner or dependent kids are not added in this application, reveal to us the reason why (for instance, they already hold Australian citizenship or are a permanent resident).
Skilled Work Regional Provisional Visa Cost
From AUD4, 045 for the main candidate.
There is also a charge for every relative who gives application for the visa with you.
To work out what your visa will costs utilize the Visa Pricing Estimator. The estimator doesn’t consider into account the second installment or other expenses.
You may need to pay an additional charge for any candidate 18 years of old or older who has less than functional English. This charge is called the second installment. Pay it only when we ask you to. We request for the charge only in case we are going to give the visa.
The second installment fee for family members is AUD 4, 890.
The Visa Pricing Estimator does not add the second installment or other expenses. You may also need to pay other expenses for health inspections, police certificates and biometrics.
Processing times
We evaluate applications case-by-case basis, and genuine processing times can vary because of individual conditions including:
- whether you have enter a full application, adding all needed supporting documents
- how rapidly you react to any requests for extra information
- how long it takes to perform required examine on the supporting information offered
- how long it takes to get extra information from outer offices, especially in relation to health, character, and national security necessities
Your obligations
You and your family will have to follow to all visa conditions and Australian laws.
Travel
You can go out of Australia and come back as many times as you want while the visa is legitimate.
The time you spend outside Australia doesn’t expand the visa.
Visa label
We will digitally link your visa to your passport. You won’t get a label in your passport.
Eligibility
Be nominated or sponsored
You should be either designated by an Australian state or region government office or indicate that you will be sponsored by a qualified family members. See below for more information.
Present an expression of interest (EOI) for the visa to get a guess of your points score.
In case you score enough points, state and region government offices can see your EOI and might designate you for the visa.
In case you show in your EOI that you will be sponsored by a qualified relative the Department may invite you to give application for a visa in a invitation round.
Nomination by an Australian state or territory government agency
In case you are designated for the visa, we will invite you to giving the application. All state and region government offices have their own standards for deciding who they will designate.
Contact the state or region office directly to search out more about their nomination procedure and what they want from you.
- New South Wales
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Victoria
- Western Australia
Sponsorship by an eligible relative
Your sponsor should be:
- 18 years age or more
- normally resident in a nominated region of Australia
- be an Australian resident, an Australian permanent resident, or a qualified New Zealand citizen
- be your qualified relative or your partner’s qualified relative in case your partner is also giving the application for this visa
A qualified relative can be:
- a parent
- a child or step-child
- a brother, sister, adoptive brother, adoptive sister, step-brother or step-sister
- an aunt, uncle, adoptive aunt, adoptive uncle, step-aunt or step-uncle
- a nephew, niece, adoptive nephew, adoptive niece, step-nephew or step-niece
- a grandparent, or
- a first cousin
Before you can be get a visa we must approve your sponsorship.
For Skilled Work Regional Provisional Visa Be this age
When we invite you to give the application for the visa you should be aged fewer than 45.
In case you turn 45 after we invite you to give an application you can still give an application for the visa.
In case you turn 45 after you present your EOI but before we invite you to give the application you won’t get an invite.
Have a suitable skills assessment
For your application to be legitimate, you have to announce that you have an appropriate skills assessment at the time of invitation.
You will have to give a copy of this skills evaluation with your application.
For medical and lawful specialists, we also accept the following as evidence of a skills assessment:
- complete or unconditional or common medical enrollment with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency
- conditional expert enlistment with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency. This just permits you to practice in your specialty. You required no more training or oversight
- admission to practice law in the relevant state or region
Your skills evaluation has to have been acquired in the three years before the date of your invitation. In case evaluation was for a shorter duration, that duration should not have passed.
In case your skills were evaluated basis of an eligibility you get in Australia when you held a student visa, the eligibility must be from studying a course enlisted on CRICOS.
Be able to score 65 points or more
The subclass 491 is a points-tested visa.
At the point when you present your EOI in Skill Select you will be given an indicative points score based on the claims you have made. In case you don’t gain a score of 65 points you won’t be invited to giving the application for this visa.
In case we do invite you to give the application for the visa, your invitation will state the number of points that you should score when we evaluate your application for grant of the visa (this score might be higher than 65 points, depending on your claims in the EOI).
At the point when you enter your application you have to give proof supporting your claims.
To check how points can be granted use the points table.
Have this level of English language
At the time of invitation, you should have at least competent English.
Information about family members 18 years old or older
In case a relative 18 years or more is giving application for the visa with you, either:
- they should have functional English or
- they have to pay a second instalment visa application fee
Meet the skills requirement
Your occupation should be on the combined list of qualified gifted occupations for a Skilled Regional (subclass 491) visa.
Meet our health requirement
You and any family member who give the application for the visa with you should meet our health prerequisite.
In case applied, family members not going with you to Australia may also need to complete our health necessity.
Meet our character requirement
You and family members aged 16 years and over who give the application for the visa with you should complete our character necessity.
Family members not going with you to Australia should also complete the character necessity.
Have paid back your debt to the Australian government
In case you or any relatives (adding those who do not give application for the visa with you) owe the Australian Government cash, you or they have to have paid it back or organized to pay it back.
Sign the Australian values statement
In case you are 18 years old or more, you should:
- have read, or had explained to you, the Life in Australia and
- confirm that you will regard the Australian lifestyle and comply with Australian laws when you sign an Australian Values Statement.
Not have had a visa cancelled or a previous application refused
You might not be qualified for this visa in case you have had a visa cancelled or rejected while you were in Australia. Check if visa cancellation influences your qualification.
