Visa Information
Permanent Entry Visas
Permanent entry visa applications (except general skilled, business skills and parent subclasses) including Refugee/Humantarian from Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay & Uruguay are lodged, processed and decided in Brasilia.
General skilled migration applications are lodged and processed at the Adelaide Skilled Processing Centre.
Business Skills applications are lodged and processed at the Perth Business Skills Processing Centre.
Contributory parent and parent migration applications are lodged and processed at the Perth Offshore Parents Centre.
Temporary Entry Visas
Temporary entry visa applications from Brazil are lodged, processed and decided in Brasilia.
416 Special Program applications are lodged and processed at the Hobart Special Program Processing Centre
420 Entertainment sponsorship and visa applications are lodged and processed at the Sydney Entertainment Processing Centre
From 2 April 2005, Sponsored Family Visitor visa (subclass 679) applications must be lodged by the sponsor at a State or Territory office within Australia.
See: Contact details in Australia
If you are sponsored by an Australian employer, you must lodge your visa application at the same office in Australia where your employer lodged papers to support your application. Please ask your employer which office they lodged these papers at. For the office address, see: Contact details in Australia
Special Procedures
From May 2001, Brasilia became a departmental A-based post.