The Visitor Visa (Subclass 600) allows you to visit Australia as a tourists, business and family visitors on a temporary basis for 3, 6, or 12 months depending on your circumstances. On this visa you need to prove that you are a genuine visitor. You need to provide proof of sufficient funds and incentives to return home, such as study, employment, assets, business, etc.
Be here as a tourist, for cruise , or for any purpose except business or medical treatment
You can’t work on this visa but you can study or train for up to 3 months.
Eligibility
You must be outside Australia when you apply and when the department decides on your application.
You must have or have access to enough funds to support yourself while you are in Australia
You need to meet the health and character requirement.
You must be a genuine visitor.
You must have a sponsor who is settled Australian Permanent Residence or Citizen, usually must have lived in Australia for the last 2 years or an Australian Government Official
You must be able to pay a security bond if the department ask for
Usually between AUD 5,000 and AUD 15,000 per person (but department can ask for any amount)
You must pay full amount before department makes the decision of the application
Security bond will be refunded if you complies with your visa conditions and you leave Australia before your visa expires
It is recommended to have travel & health insurance.
Be suitable to sponsor
You can only sponsor one visa applicant at a time.
You must be a relative of:
the visa applicant or
Another applicant, where the other applicant is a member of the family unit of the visa applicant. For example, you could be the uncle of the main visa applicant’s spouse
another applicant, where the visa applicant is a member of that other applicant’s family unit
To be a relative, you must be an applicant’s:
partner, parent or child, brother or sister , grandparent or grandchild, aunt or uncle, niece or nephew,
the step equivalent of the above
A sponsor can’t be a: fiancé, in-law, cousin, friend, New Zealand Citizen