Visa Information
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Permanent Entry visas
Permanent entry visa applications (except points test and business skills and parents categories) for Canada, and the Caribbean countries of Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadaloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, St Pierre et Miquelon, St Vincent & The Grenadines, Trinidad & Tobago and Turks & Caicos Islands are lodged, processed and decided in Ottawa.
General skilled migration applications are lodged and processed at the Adelaide Skilled Processing Centre.
See: Adelaide Skilled Processing Centre
Business Skills applications are lodged and processed at the Perth Business Skills Processing Centre.
See: Perth Business Skills Processing Centre
Contributory parent and parent migration applications are lodged and processed at the Perth Offshore Parents Centre.
See: Perth Offshore Parents Centre
Temporary Entry visas
Citizens of Canada are eligible for streamlined processing of visitor visas through ETA.
See: Electronic Travel Authority
Other temporary entry visa applications from Canada, Bermuda and the Caribbean countries of Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadaloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, St Pierre et Miquelon, St Vincent & The Grenadines, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos Islands are processed and decided in Ottawa.
416 Special Program applications are lodged and processed at the Hobart Special Program Processing Centre.
See: Hobart Special Program Processing Centre
420 Entertainment sponsorship and visa applications are lodged and processed at the Sydney Entertainment Processing Centre.
See: Sydney Entertainment Processing Centre
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 where they lodged these papers.
See: Contact details in Australia
Special Procedures
Ottawa is also responsible for all immigration and citizenship matters for residents of Bermuda. Consular matters for Australian citizens in Bermuda are handled by the Australian High Commission, Ottawa, Canada.
See: Australian High Commission, Canada
Citizens of Canada are eligible to apply for a Working Holiday Visa (subclass 417).
See: Working Holiday Visa (subclass 417)
Citizens of Canada are eligible to apply online for a Student visa.
See: Students