Review deadlines are set by law and can be short. Check yours before it passes.
Read more →ProcessingSee how long the Department is taking, and where the queue is for your visa.
Read more →Start here482, 186 and 494: what the employer does and what you do.
Read more →Start hereOnshore 820, offshore 309 or prospective marriage 300, and the evidence each needs.
Read more →Start hereThe 485 graduate visa: six months from completing your course to apply.
Read more →Time-criticalResponse periods are short. Check what the notice is and how to respond.
Read more →The visa application charge for your visa and your family, worked out live by the Department of Home Affairs’ own estimator.
Work out the feeHow long the Department is taking to decide each visa, and where the queue is under the current Ministerial Direction.
See processing timesAlso on this site: migration updates · case law · Department policy questions
Students and visitors
From 2 October 2026 a student visa holder applying for a further student visa must generally apply from outside Australia, family members can be included only in limited cases, and seventeen visas now stop a student visa application being made in Australia.
Refusal and review
The Department has released the number of Ministerial intervention requests received and finalised, and visas granted, for 2022-23 to 2025-26.
Students and visitors
Four instruments commenced on 28 September 2026: the eVisitor application form and manner, the Approved Destination Status travel agent list, the countries used for health referrals, and the ESOS agencies for ELICOS and Foundation Programs.
Book a consultation. We look at your actual situation – your visa history, your documents, your timing – and tell you what is available and what is not.
If we take the matter on you get a written service agreement setting out the work, the fees and the disbursements before any of it starts.
We gather and check the evidence, prepare the forms and the submission, and lodge the application through ImmiAccount.
Requests for further information, health and character, and the deadlines attached to them. You hear from us when something needs your answer.
You will always know what you are paying and what for. The fees and the scope of work go into a written service agreement before the work starts, and you get an itemised invoice and a receipt for money received. That is what the Code of Conduct requires, and it is how this practice is run.
“I know firsthand the struggle … the paperwork, the waiting, the uncertainty about what comes next for you and your family. But I never gave up, and worked hard, did everything I could, and finally got PR in 2011.”
Arash studied migration law in 2013. The practice is run from Southport on the Gold Coast, and he is the person you will be dealing with.
Whether you are at the very start, waiting on a decision, or holding a refusal letter, start with a conversation about where things stand.
