A visa applicant must provide verifiable, genuine and unaltered information, documents, videos, photographs or audio files with your application. Providing edited, altered or digitally manipulated documents and photographs, for visa application purposes is unlawful. Please do not create, or modify documents using digital editing tools, artificial intelligence (AI), or any other method. Do not misrepresent yourself and any of your information to the Department. Providing bogus information, or documents that is ​false and misleading​ may lead to cancellation of your visa, refusal of your application, restrictions on future applications, and possible legal action.

For all applicants to be included in the visa 186 application

• Identity documents such as passport, birth certificate, proof of name change such as marriage or divorce certificate.
• If you are or have been married, widowed, divorced or permanently separated, provide proof such as marriage certificates, divorce documents, death certificates, separation documents or statutory declarations.
• Provide an overseas police certificate from every country, including your home country, where you spent a total of 12 months or more in the last 10 years since you turned 16, any military service records or discharge papers if you served in the armed forces of any country.
• Nominating employer authorisation for the dependents to be included in employer sponsor obligations.
• Passport size photographs.

186 Visa Checklist For Primary Applicant

• Your curriculum vitae or resume that includes your full employment and educational history, including dates and positions held within last ten years.
• Employment reference letters and evidence of payslips.
• All academic certificates and transcripts.
• English test results such as IELTS or PTE Academic or TOEFL or OET.
• Tax and Superannuation records.
• Bank statements, tax records and superannuation record (If Skills Assessment is required).
• Any professional registration or license certificate.
• TRN's of any current and/or previous visas held.

186 Dependent Visa Document Checklist

• Identity documents such as birth certificate, passport, proof of name change such as divorce or marriage certificate.
• If you are or have been married, widowed, divorced or permanently separated, provide proof such as marriage certificates, divorce documents, death certificates, separation documents or statutory declarations.
• Nominating employer authorisation for the dependents to be included in employer sponsor obligations.
• Provide an overseas police certificate from every country, including your home country, where you spent a total of 12 months or more in the last 10 years since you turned 16, any military service records or discharge papers if you served in the armed forces of any country.
• Passport size photographs.

186 Nomination Document Checklist

• Employment Contract.
• Annual Financial Statements and Business Activity Statements of Last 2 years.
• Company and/or Business Registration Details.
• Business details, purpose, objectives.
• Business organisation chart with job responsibilities of nominated person's immidiate supervisor.
• Total employees in the company and their residence status in Australia.
• Genuine Position submission.
• Annual Market Salary rate submission.
• Labor Market Testing submission, advertisements and payment recepts and details of applicants who applied for the position.
• Details of the authorised person on behalf of the company.
• Proof that an ITO applies (if applicable) to visa 186 nomination.

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