Australia Migration Insights, Tips & Updates from Jose Respall

From 30 September 2021, all applicants applying for a Visitor’s (Tourist) Visa Class FA (subclass 600) from outside Australia e.g., Philippines in any Visitor’s Visa stream, must lodge their application online by creating an ImmiAccount with The Department of Home Affairs.

If the Department of Home Affairs sends a letter to advice the Filipino visa applicant that the department requires their biometrics to be processed and collect prior to their visa being granted, the Filipino visa applicant must arrange an appointment and present themselves to the nearest AVAC or ABCC so that these additional identification can be collected individually from them.

Filipinos can now take advantage of the Migration Program set down after the Australian Federal Budget was handed down and will run from the 1st of July 2022 to the 30th of June 2023.

Now that both governments in the Philippines and Australia are starting to talk about ‘opening up their borders’, there seems to be all this excitement about the prospect of visiting your loved ones in Australia or the Philippines.