Visa application costs & processing time

Working Aged Parent Visa

The visa application charge for the Parent Visa has two installments:
1st installment is currently AU$1,705.
2nd installment is currently AU$1,480.

Aged Parent Visa

The visa application charge for the Aged Parent Visa has two installments:
1st installment is currently AU$2,525.
2nd installment is currently AU$1,480.

Contributory Parent Visa

The visa application charge for the Contributory Parent Visa has two installments:
1st installment is currently AU$1,705.
2nd installment is currently AU$34,330.

Other costs such as the compulsory Assurance of Support Bond apply. Exact details of costs involved are provided in the Level 1 advice document.

Processing of Parent Category visas can take considerably longer than other Family Stream visas. This is due in part to the low processing priority they have been given and the high demand in this category.

Processing times vary considerably amongst the various Parent Visa subclasses. The Contributory Parent category has a higher processing priority than the Parent category. When a cap is reached, applicants who have met the legal requirements for the grant of a Contributory Parent visa are placed in a global queue for the grant of that visa.

When further visa places become available and applicants meet all the legal criteria for the grant of that visa, visas are granted in order of the queue date allocated to an applicant.

If an applicant has been placed in a queue to wait for visa place availability, their approximate position in that queue can be checked by using the Queue Position Calculator. The data is updated on a monthly basis.

See: Queue Position Calculator

Success Stories

Over the years we have helped many people from all over the world realise their dream of a new life in Australia. Please see the Testimonial Section of the website and see for yourself.

The Level 1 Service allows for a professional assessment of your visa eligibility and preparation of a written document containing advice, information, application forms and support to manage a parent visa application. This is our most popular service and many clients have successfully utilised this affordable alternative to traditional migration consultancy.

This service also comes with our ongoing email support and a free 30 minute telephone conversation.

Our email support is now unlimited. It is our interest to ensure our clients are satisfied with our service, and if successful in migration know they can rely on us for any help and support they may need to make the transition to Australian life as easy as possible.

The advice contained in the Level 1 Service is targeted toward making an application under one of the Contributory Parent visa subclasses.