Pakistan

Visa Information

Permanent Entry visas

Permanent entry visa applications (except general skilled, business skills, Afghan partner and parent subclasses) from Pakistan and Afghanistan are lodged, processed and decided in Islamabad.

Note: From 4 January 2009 all partner migration applications from Afghani nationals resident in Afghanistan or Pakistan will be processed in Dubai.
See:
Changes to processing location for family migration applications from Afghanistan (74KB PDF file)
Contacts - United Arab Emirates

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

Refugee and Humanitarian visas

Clients from Afghanistan, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Yemen whose application for a Refugee and Humanitarian (Class XB) visa is accompanied by a proposal form (form 681) must lodge their application at the department’s Melbourne CBD office. This applies to people who are lodging a visa for consideration under the Global Special Humanitarian Program (SHP) or as an immediate family member.
See: Lodging Certain Humanitarian Applications in Australia from applicants in the Middle East and parts of South West Asia (29KB PDF file)
Countries: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.

Temporary Entry visas

Temporary entry visa applications from Pakistan and Afghanistan are lodged, processed and decided in Islamabad.

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

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.
See: Contact details in Australia

Special procedures

Since 1 July 2001 Tehran has accepted, processed and decided all permanent and temporary entry visa applications lodged by persons in Iran; they are no longer referred to Islamabad for decision.