Australian Visa Encyclopedia
Discover the comprehensive Australian Visa Encyclopedia by Agape Henry Crux. Learn about the different types of visas in Australia, including subclasses and streams, to make informed decisions for your immigration journey.
There are currently 111 visas in Australia. The visas were traditionally grouped into ‘Class’ of visas and expanded into ‘Subclass’. Of late, the Australian government broke-down the structure of subclasses into ‘Stream’. Generally, there are 2 types of visas:
- • Substantive Visas
- • Bridging Visas
Visas allow for non-citizens to remain lawful in Australia either permanently or temporary. To allow an easy overview of the visa program in Australia, we categorized the visas into, what we’d like to refer as, “The 12 Families”.
The 12 Categories (12 Familia of Visas)
Visas With Work Permission
There are 8 types of permanent and temporary visas that allow work, all of which do not require to be sponsored by an employer.
Some of these visas break down into further streams.
Act-Based Visas
It is not always that act-based visas are classified into “subclass”. At current, there are 7-act-based visas found in the Migration Act 1958.
Miscellaneous Visas
Miscellaneous Visas refers to a set of visas that do not fall into a defined category. These visas are meant for those who do not qualify for other kinds of visas but have a valid cause to come and reside in Australia temporarily or permanently.
