This visa lets a child adopted outside Australia by an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident to move to Australia to live with them permanently.
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This visa lets a child adopted outside Australia to move to Australia and live with their Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident parent in Australia. You need to be outside Australia at the time of the application.
The visa holders have full work rights to work anywhere in Australia.
The visa holders have full study rights to work anywhere in Australia.
The child's dependent children can be included on their application when they apply or added to their application at any time before a decision is made on their application.
If you have other siblings who also want to move to Australia to live permanently, then they will need to submit separate applications.
For Pacific Region Country Passport Holders: Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Timor‑Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, the Base application charge for subclass 102 visa fees is A$3,315; Additional applicant charge for an applicant who is at least 18: A$1,655; Additional applicant charge for an applicant who is less than 18: A$830.
For all other applicants the Base application charge for subclass 102 visa fees is A$4,040; Additional applicant charge for an applicant who is at least 18: A$2,020; Additional applicant charge for an applicant who is less than 18: A$1,015.
Standard Stream: 50% of applications in 6 Months; 90% of applications in 15 months.
The child must have been under 18 years of age when adopted, when they apply and when a decision is made, be outside Australia when the application is submitted; and be adopted or in the process of being adopted by their sponsor parent.
To be eligible to apply for an Adoption visa (subclass 102), the child must have been or be in the process of being adopted through an intercountry adoption or arrangement with the involvement of an Australian state or territory central authority, or have been or be in the process of being adopted through an intercountry adoption between 2 countries (other than Australia) that are parties to the Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption (the Hague Adoption Convention), or have been adopted through an expatriate adoption (with no Australian state or territory central authority being involved).
The child must be sponsored by an eligible adoptive parent or prospective adoptive parent. We must approve the sponsorship. We might not approve sponsorship if the sponsor or their partner has been charged or convicted of offences involving children.
The child must be either under 18 years old, or over 18 and under 25 years and studying full time, or over 18 years with a disability, and can't be or ever have been married or engaged to be married or in a de facto relationship, for Australia 101 visa.
If the child is over 18 and under 25 years old they must be a full-time student when they apply and when the visa application is decided, can't work full time and must be financially dependent on their parent more than any other person.
If the child is 18 years or older with a disability, they must have totally or partially lost their bodily or mental functions can't work full time.
You must meet Australia's health, character, Australian values requirement and owe no debt to Australian Government.
The child must be adopted (or to be adopted), with the involvement of an Australian State/Territory central adoption authority, under the Hague Adoption Convention, or a bilateral adoption agreement with a competent authority of another country, or another adoption agreement) or adopted by expatriate Australians who have been living outside Australia for more than 12 months before making the AH-102 visa application.
The full title of the Hague Adoption Convention is The Hague Convention on Protection and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption. If a valid Article 23 ACC has been issued, this is evidence enough that the adoption is recognised in Australia. The child will not enter Australia under the IGOC Act. However, If there is no valid ACC, and the adoption is not recognised in Australia, the child may enter Australia under the IGOC Act. If these adoptions are later finalised in Australia, and at least one of the adopting parents is an Australian citizen, and the child is a permanent resident at the time the adoption is finalised in Australia, the child would automatically become an Australian citizen at the time the adoption is finalised in Australia (s13 of the Australian Citizenship Act) and the IGOC Act will no longer apply.
The children adopted, with the involvement of an State and territory central adoption authorities (STCAA) under a bilateral adoption arrangement made in accordance with Australian law with another country. These adoptions are full adoptions and recognised in Australia under Australian law. The visa application can be made before the adoption is finalised (but the child must have at least been allocated for adoption).
This applies where the child has been adopted outside Australia, without the involvement of an Australian STCAA, by an Australian citizen, permanent visa holder or eligible New Zealand citizen who has been living outside Australia for more than 12 months (not necessarily the country where the adoption took place) at the time the Adoption Visa Subclass 102 application was made. However, the residence overseas by the adoptive parent was not contrived to circumvent the requirements for entry to Australia of children for adoption, although an adoptive parent may have taken up residence outside Australia for the purpose of adopting a child, it does not necessarily mean that they 'contrived to circumvent' Australian State/Territory adoption law.
This visa lets a child adopted outside Australia to move to Australia and live with their Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident parent in Australia. You need to be outside Australia at the time of the application.
The child subclass 101 visa lets a child outside Australia to move to Australia and live with their Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident parent in Australia. You need to be outside Australia at the time of the application.
This subclass 802 visa lets a child inside Australia to stay and live with their Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident parent in Australia. You need to be inside Australia at the time of the application.
This subclass 117 visa lets a child who is single to come to Australia to live with a relative if their parents are dead, are unable to care for them or can't be found. You need to be outside Australia at the time of the application.
This subclass 837 visa lets a child who is single to stay in Australia to live with a relative if their parents are dead, are unable to care for them or can't be found. You need to be inside Australia at the time of the application.
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