This 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.
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This 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.
The visa holders have full work rights to work anywhere in Australia.
The visa holders have full study rights to work anywhere in Australia.
If you have a partner and children then they can also be included in your 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 802 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 802 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 20 Months; 90% of applications in 29 months.
This 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.
To be eligible for this visa, a stepchild must be the child of their step-parent’s former partner and be aged under 18. The step-parent must also have either an Australian parenting order in force that says the child is to live with them and be looked after by them, or guardianship or custody of the child under an Australian law or the law of another country.
The child must be sponsored by an eligible parent or their parent's spouse or de facto partner.
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 definition recognises a broader range of parent-child relationships, including children conceived through artificial conception procedures such as invitro fertilisation and children born under certain surrogacy agreements which are recognised under a prescribed State/Territory law as per the Family Law Act 1975. The children may have no biological links to their legal parents.
Surrogacy is an arrangement, usually contractual, under which a woman (the gestational or birth mother) agrees to bear a child for another person or persons (the commissioning parent/s) with the intention that the child be handed over to those persons immediately or very soon after the birth. The persons involved may or may not be genetically related to the child.
If one parent has a biological link to the child and can show evidence of this (either through DNA testing or possibly advice from the specialist doctor involved) that parent may sponsor the child for an Child Visa Subclass 802.
If there is no biological link between the commissioning parents and the child, or if no court order exists confirming the person other than the biological parent is the parent of the child, the child will require an Adoption Visa Subclass 102.
This criterion limits the circumstances in which a dependent child may be granted an Child Visa Subclass 802 on the basis of a step-relationship to circumstances where:
- The child's parent is no longer a partner of the step-parent but;
- That step-parent has legal responsibility for the child granted by a court. The purpose and effect of this criterion (in circumstances other than those above) is to prevent a step-child being granted a permanent visa unless their parent is already an Australian citizen, an Australian permanent resident or an eligible New Zealand citizen.
The relationship should be evidenced as follows:
- Evidence that the child's parent was, but is no longer, the partner of the step-parent
- Evidence of the relationship between that parent and the child and- Evidence that the step-parent now has custody or guardianship of the child.
This 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.
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 102 visa lets a child adopted outside Australia by an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident to move to Australia to live with them permanently.
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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