Mauritius

Visa Information

Permanent Entry Visas

Permanent entry visa applications (except general skilled, business skills and parent subclasses) from Mauritius, Comoros, Madagascar, Reunion Islands and the Seychelles are lodged and processed at the Australian High Commission, Pretoria, South Africa. While they can be lodged in Port Louis, most applicants prefer to send them directly to Pretoria rather than have them transferred there by the office in Port Louis.

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 the following countries are lodged, processed and decided in Port Louis: Mauritius, Comoros, Madagascar, Reunion Islands and Seychelles.

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