No Further Stay condition 8503 to be imposed on every visitor visa, ETA and eVisitor applied for from 28 November 2026

The Migration Amendment (Preventing Further Stay for Visitor Visas) Regulations 2026 were made on 12 November 2026, registered on 13 November 2026, and commence on 28 November 2026. They apply to a visa application made on or after 28 November 2026.

What changes

Condition 8503 (No Further Stay) must be imposed on these visas when the application is made on or after 28 November 2026:

• the subclass 600 Visitor visa, in every stream;
• the subclass 601 Electronic Travel Authority;
• the subclass 651 eVisitor.

The explanatory statement says that before this change, condition 8503 was already mandatory in the Sponsored Family, Approved Destination Status and Frequent Traveller streams of the subclass 600, but could be imposed only at the Minister’s discretion in the Business Visitor stream and for most people in the Tourist stream, and could not be imposed on the ETA or the eVisitor.

What condition 8503 means

The explanatory statement says that applying condition 8503 prevents a non-citizen from making a valid onshore application for a further substantive visa (other than a protection visa) after entering Australia on one of these visas. It does not stop the holder leaving Australia and applying from outside.

The explanatory statement also says the amendments do not affect the Minister’s power to waive condition 8503 in the circumstances set out in regulation 2.05. The waiver routes are explained in our guide to the No Further Stay condition.

The stated purpose is that this is consistent with the intended purpose of a visitor visa, to enable non-citizens to engage in short-term temporary visits to Australia. The explanatory statement places it in a series of measures intended to place downward pressure on net overseas migration.

If this affects you

If a visit is planned and a further visa in Australia is a possibility, the date the visitor visa application is made matters. Provide us with the visitor’s passport details, travel dates and plans, and we can set out the options before an application is made.