Australia
Immigration Processing time
|
|
Applicant
in Australia
at
time application is lodged
|
|
|
Low
Risk* |
High Risk*
|
Low
Risk |
High
Risk |
|
General Skilled Migration (GSM)
2 |
6 months
|
6 months
|
12 months
|
15 months
|
|
Skilled – Regional Subclass 887
3 |
5 months
|
5 months
|
n/a |
n/a |
|
Skilled – Regional Sponsored
Subclass 487 |
5 months
|
5 months
|
n/a |
n/a |
|
Skilled – Regional Sponsored
Subclass 475 |
n/a |
n/a |
7
months |
7
months |
|
Skilled – Graduate Subclass
485 |
5 months
|
5 months
|
n/a |
n/a |
|
Skilled – Recognised Graduate
Subclass 476 |
n/a |
n/a |
7
months |
7
months |
1 Applicants applying for
an Offshore General Skilled Migration (GSM) visa can be either
in or out of Australia at time
of lodgement though must be offshore at time of grant.
Exceptions apply for holders of a Special category Visa
(Subclass 444), who can be in or out of Australia at time
of grant for an Offshore GSM visa.
2 This includes the
following permanent GSM visas:
Skilled – Independent
(Residence) visa (Subclass 885) (Onshore)
Skilled – Independent
(Migrant) visa (Subclass 175) (Offshore)
Skilled – Sponsored
(Residence) visa (Subclass 886) (Onshore)
Skilled – Sponsored
(Migrant) visa (Subclass 176)
(Offshore)
3 The Skilled – Regional
(Subclass 887) visa is only available to holders of the
following provisional GSM visas:
Skilled – Independent
Regional (Subclass 495)
Skilled – Designated
Area Sponsored (Subclass 496)
Skilled – Regional
Sponsored (Subclass 487) (Onshore)
or
Skilled – Regional
Sponsored (Subclass 475) (Offshore)
* Low risk applies to
Nationals from countries which issue Electronic Travel
Authority (ETA) eligible passports. A list of these can be
found on the department's website. High risk countries are
those which are not ETA
eligible.
At
time of typing, the current low risk
countries are:
Andorra
Austria
Belgium
Brunei
Canada
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hong
Kong
SAR
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Malaysia
Malta
Monaco
Netherlands
Norway
Portugal
San
Marino
Singapore
South
Korea
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United
Kingdom
United States Of America
Vatican City
If
your country is not listed above then your process considered
in hight risk countries.
The
tables below outline service standards for low and high risk
countries:
|
Service Standard
for Low Risk Countries |
|
Visa
type |
Onshore
(If your visa can be granted
while you are in Australia
) |
Offshore
(If your visa can be granted
while you are outside Australia
) |
|
General Skilled Migration
|
six (6) months
|
12 months
|
|
Skilled Regional
Sponsored |
five (5) months
|
seven (7) months
|
|
Service Standard for High Risk
Countries |
|
Visa type
|
Onshore
(If your visa can be granted
while you are in Australia) |
Offshore
(If your visa can be granted
while you are outside Australia) |
|
General Skilled Migration
|
six (6) months
|
15 months
|
|
Skilled Regional
Sponsored |
five (5) months
|
seven (7) months
|
Note:
Applications which submitted
incomplete or missing documents or forms data then the
processing time will take much longer then mentioned in
table above and also depending on the completeness and
complexity of the case.
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