Sponsored Family Visitor Information

Subject: Sponsored Family Visitor Information

This email is to highlight the announcement made on 12 March by the Minister regarding changes to Visitor visa regulations. http://www.minister.immi.gov.au/media/bo/2013/bo194165.htm

We encourage you to disseminate this advice to your community members. The really important thing for you to be aware of is any applications made on old forms will be returned as invalid.

From Saturday 23 March, visitors seeking a new visa to enter Australia for non-work purposes will need to apply for a new Visitor (Subclass 600) visa, or if eligible, the new Electronic Travel Authority (subclass 601) or the eVisitor (Subclass 651) visa. These visas will allow for tourism, family visits, and business visitor activities (undertaking of business enquiries and contractual negotiations, Government to Government visits and attending conferences). These visas will not allow business visitors to perform work.

People who seek to lodge an application for the new Visitor visa (subclass 600) Family Sponsored stream, formerly the Sponsored Family Visitor visa (subclass 679) will find the following changes:

· a new application form (form 1418 to replace form 48S) ;
· application forms to be completed for each person applying to visit Australia, including dependent children – there will no longer be “combined applications”;
· the Visa Application Charge (VAC) will be $115.00 for each person on the application;
· a new version of the sponsorship form 1149; and
· applications to be mailed/couriered to the specified address(es) – no in-person lodgement possible.

The department intends to progressively expand access to online lodgement of the Visitor (subclass 600) visa to all countries by 2013-14. People who hold a visa issued before 23 March 2013 will continue to be able to use that visa until it expires.

For further information on these changes please go to:
www.immi.gov.au/visas/visitor-visa

Please do not hesitate to call 131 881 if you require any further details.

Kind regards
Nicole Lungershausen
Settlement Officer
Department of Immigration and Citizenship
Telephone: (08) 7421 7336
Email: nicole.lungershausen@immi.gov.au

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my name is Huat muoi tu I have made a sponsored family visitor for my daughter Le thuc linh for 2 months but don’t hear anything so I rang up and find out you had send me a letter telling me to pay a bond for my daughter on the 27th july 2014 I resumed the letter was missing for some reason, so would you please kindly send me the letter one more time I have the detail to pay bond for. visa subclass I’m applying for is 600 The application’s name Le thuc linh passport number is B 1904733 thank you

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My application for sponsored visa under subclass 600 wAs returned it back to me this morning. The name that I sponsored was Franco Lopez my brother application ID 790570340, file #. Asb 2013/4484. Do I need to submit new form or just to filling up the amount that I’m willing to automatically debited to the credit card indicated in the bottom of the application. Thank you

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