Student visa (subclass 500)
Features
This visa allows you to stay in Australia to
study full-time in a recognised education institution.
Eligibility
You must:
be at least six years of age
have been accepted to study at an
educational institution in Australia
have health insurance.
Cost
From AUD 560
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Eligibility
Who
could get this visa & Before you apply for this visa, you must have:
been accepted
to study full-time at an educational institution in Australia
organised
appropriate welfare arrangements for the duration of your intended stay in
Australia if you are under 18 years of age.
Enrolment
With limited
exceptions, you must be enrolled in a course of study that is registered on the
Commonwealth Register of Institutions and courses for Overseas for Overseas
Students (CRICOS).
If you are
applying from outside Australia, you must include a Confirmation of Enrolment
(CoE) for each intended course of study with your visa application. A letter of
offer from your education provider will not be accepted.
If you are
applying for more than one course in your student visa application, you must
include all Confirmation of Enrolment (CoE) codes in the application form or
the visa may only be granted for the CoE provided.
You do not need to provide a Confirmation of
Enrolment (CoE) if you are:
Sponsored by
the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade – provide a letter of
support
Sponsored by
the Australian Department of Defence – provide a letter of support
a secondary
exchange student – provide an Acceptance Advice of Secondary Exchange Student
(AASES) form
a
postgraduate research student required to remain in Australia for marking of
your thesis – provide a letter from your education provider.
If you are in
Australia, you can apply with one or more letters of offer but you must provide
the CoE/s to be granted the visa.
Genuine temporary entrant
The GTE
requirement applies to all
student visa applicants. The officer assessing the visa will and considers
whether the individual circumstances of the student indicate that their
intention is for a temporary stay in Australia. You must satisfy us that you
have a genuine intention to stay in Australia temporarily.
English language requirements
You might need to provide evidence of your English language
skills with your visa application.
Check the Document
Checklist tool (disclaimer) to
find out the evidence you need to provide. You might also be exempt from providing evidence.
If you are required to provide evidence of your English language
skills with your application and you do not do so, your visa could be refused.
Financial capacity requirements
You need to have enough money that is genuinely available to
you, to pay for your course fees, and travel and living costs for you and your
accompanying family members while you are in Australia.
You might need to provide evidence of your financial capacity
with your visa application. Check the Document
Checklist tool (disclaimer) to find out the evidence you need to provide.
If the Document Checklist lists evidence of financial capacity
as a requirement, it must be attached to the visa application form or your visa
could be refused without requests for further information.
If you do not need to provide this evidence with your
application, we have discretion to ask you for this during the application
process.
If you are a secondary exchange student, provide a completed
Acceptance Advice of Secondary Exchange Student (AASES) form as evidence of
meeting the financial capacity requirement.
If you are sponsored by the Department of Foreign Affairs and
Trade or the Department of Defence, provide a letter of support as evidence of
meeting the financial capacity requirement. You must provide evidence of
financial capacity for accompanying family members.
Evidence of financial capacity
If you need
to provide evidence of financial capacity, you will be able to demonstrate this
by providing one of the following:
Evidence of
funds to cover travel to Australia and 12 months’ living, course and (for
school aged dependants) schooling costs for the student and accompanying family
members
Evidence that
you meet the annual income requirement
An Acceptance
Advice of Secondary Exchange Students (AASES) form (secondary exchange students
only)
a letter of
support from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade or Department of
Defence.
Subsequent
entrants – family members who apply after the primary applicant has
been granted their visa must also provide documentary evidence of financial
capacity. This must be one of the options above.
Twelve
months' funds option
Annual income
option
Genuine
access to funds
Health requirements
You must meet the health requirements.
You might need to undergo health examinations as part of the
visa application process.
The health assessment process can take several weeks to
complete. To help avoid delays, you can choose to undertake your health
examination before lodging your visa application.
More information is available about My health declarations.
Health insurance
You must have adequate health
insurance while in Australia. Students can show this by obtaining Overseas Student Health Cover (OSHC) which provides medical and hospital insurance.
Character requirements
Everyone who wants to enter Australia must be of good character
and will be assessed against the character requirements.
You must answer some character related questions on your visa
application form and the information you provide will be used to assess your
character.
You might be asked for more information.
More information is available about Character and police certificate
requirements.
Family members applying to join
you
You and your family members can make a combined application or
they can apply to join you later provided you declared them in your student
visa application or they became a family member after the grant of your student
visa (such as a newborn baby).
You must have funds to support yourself and all accompanying
family members already in Australia as well as those included in the current
application.
More information is available about How to apply for family members to
join you.
English Language Intensive Course
for Overseas Students (ELICOS)
Student visa applicants can
apply to study in ELICOS in Australia. If you are intending to study standalone
ELICOS for more than 12 months, you should provide lots of information with
your application showing how you meet the Genuine Temporary Entrant (GTE) requirement.
There is flexibility to extend the length of ELICOS where it is
needed. This will be determined on a case by case basis.
The visa
What
this visa lets you do
This visa is
for students who want to come to Australia to study at a registered education institution.
You can study a CRICOS registered full-time
course in Australia.
Eligible family members can accompany you to
Australia.
Working while studying
Students must comply with the work conditions for student visa holders
Extend your stay in Australia
You need to
either leave Australia before your visa expires, or lodge a new visa
application.
If your visa
has expired for more than 28 days, you might not be able to return to Australia
for three years.
You can only
extend your stay in Australia if you do not have a 'No Further Stay' condition
(8534 or 8535) on your current student visa or this restriction has been
waived. You can find out if you have this condition by looking in your visa
grant information or through Visa Entitlement Verification
Online (VEVO).
You might be
able to extend your stay in Australia for:
Further study
Graduation
a holiday
Work
Migration.
In general,
you can only hold one visa at a time. A new visa (other than abridging visa) will
generally replace any other visa that you hold and come into effect as soon as
it is granted. You should contact us before lodging a visa application if you
have questions about how a new visa would affect your existing visa.
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Note: Above
information may not up to date so it always recommended to check or ask for
updated information.
study at an educational
institution in Australia
·
have health insurance.
Length of stay
Up to five years
Cost
From AUD 560