This 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's be found. You need to be inside Australia at the time of the application.
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This visa lets a child who is single 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 inside Australia at the time of the application.
The visa holders have full work rights to work anywhere in Australia.
The visa holders have full rights to engage in study in Australia.
If you have a partner and children then they you wont be eligible for this visa application.
The child can travel to and from Australia as many times as they want for 5 years from the date this visa is granted. This is as long as the travel facility on this visa remains valid. If the child wants to travel after the initial 5-year travel facility then they will need to apply for and be granted a Subclass 155 or Subclass 157 Resident Return Visa(RRV) so they can re-enter Australia as a permanent resident. They cal also apply for Australian citizenship and get an Australian passport, which then they can use to leave and re-enter Australia.
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 837 visa fees is A$2,030; Additional applicant charge for an applicant who is at least 18: A$1,015; Additional applicant charge for an applicant who is less than 18: A$510.
For applicants with invalid passports of Pacific Region Country the Base application charge for subclass 837 visa fees is A$2,475; Additional applicant charge for an applicant who is at least 18: A$1,235; Additional applicant charge for an applicant who is less than 18: A$625.
For all other applicants the Base application charge for subclass 837 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: 75% of applications in Processing times are not available.; 90% of applications in Processing times are not available.
The orphan relative of another person who is their Australian relative if the applicant has not turned 18; and does not have a spouse or de facto partner; and is a relative of that other person; and the applicant cannot be cared for by either parent because each of them is either dead, permanently incapacitated or of unknown whereabouts; and there is no compelling reason to believe that the grant of a visa would not be in the best interests of the applicant.
The child must be sponsored by an eligible sibling or step-sibling, grandparent or step-grandparent, aunt, uncle, step-aunt or step-uncle. The sponsorship must be approved before a visa can be granted, which might not be approved if the sponsoring parent or their partner has been charged or convicted of offences involving children.
The sponsor must have been lawfully resident in Australia for two years as at time of visa application discounting short trips outside Australia for up to four months. This is generally considered to be a ‘reasonable period’. A sponsor could come within this category even if they are outside Australia at the time the visa application is made. Lawfully resident’ includes periods of lawful temporary residence.
The child must be under 18 years old when they apply for the visa.
The child will not be granted this visa unless the child has no parent who can care for them. This might be because both their parents either are deceased, are permanently incapable of caring for the child or can't be found. The child will not be granted this visa if the child's parents are capable of caring for them but don't want to.
We will only grant this visa to a child younger than 18 years if either the child has the written consent of everyone who can legally decide where they live, the laws of the child’s home country allow them to leave their home country, or it is consistent with any Australian child order about the child.
This visa lets a child who is single 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 inside Australia at the time of the application.
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