Zimbabwe

Visa Information

Permanent Entry Visas

Permanent entry visa applications (except general skilled, business skills and parent subclasses) are lodged and processed at the Australian High Commission, Pretoria, South Africa. While they may be lodged in Harare, most applicants find it quicker to send them direct to Pretoria.
See: Australian High Commission, Pretoria, South Africa

Refugee and Humanitarian Entry Visas

From 1 April 2005, people from, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Omoros, Cape d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, The Gambia, Togo, Western Sahara, Zambia and Zimbabwe whose application for an XB class visa is accompanied by a proposal form (form 681) must lodge their applications at DIAC's Sydney office. This applies to people who are lodging a visa for consideration under the Global Special Humanitarian Program (SHP) or under the 'immediate family' (Split Family) provisions.
For further details,
See: Lodging Certain Humanitarian Applications in Australia from applicants in Africa (28KB PDF file)

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 Harare: Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia.

Note: From November 2005 all temporary visa applications from Botswana are processed at the Australian High Commission, Pretoria, South Africa.

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