Cyprus
Visa Information
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Permanent entry visas
Permanent entry visa applications (except general skilled, business skills and parent subclasses) can be lodged in Nicosia, Cyprus. They will be transferred to the Visa section of the Australian Embassy in Beirut where they will be processed and decided. All enquiries regarding permanent visa applications should be made to the Australian Embassy Beirut.
See: Beirut Contacts
General skilled migration visas 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 Parent Visa Centre.
See: Parent Visa Centre
Temporary entry visas
Citizens of Cyprus who are travelling to Australia for up to three (3) months for tourism or business purposes are eligible to apply online for eVisitors.
See: eVisitors
Passport holders from Cyprus who want to visit Australia for more than three (3) months are eligible to apply online for a Tourist visa (e676).
See: Tourist visa
Paper temporary entry visa applications from passport holders from Cyprus are lodged, processed and decided in Nicosia, Cyprus.
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 Us – Australian Offices
If you are sponsored by an Australian employer for a Subclass 457 Business (Long Stay) visa, you may lodge your visa application online or at an Australia office of the department. If you are sponsored by an overseas business, you can lodge your visa application with the Australia Immigration Office responsible for applications in your country.
See:
Centres of Excellence
Online Applications
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.
See: Contact Us – Australian Offices
Special procedures
Above arrangements also apply to applicants from the Turkish occupied north of the island. Visa enquiries from the north are made at Australia Place which operates from 20 Guner Turkmen Street in North Nicosia, Tuesdays and Thursdays 0830-1230.