The Australian Immigration Service announced on Friday the latest visa processing time up to March 28, 2019. Hai Yi editor here for you to collate several hot visa processing schedule, convenient for the vast number of students and visa applicants ready to apply for visas.
1. First of all, let`s take a look at the students` visas which are more concerned by the Party of studying abroad.
Student visa approval in March was not much slower than in February, according to the picture above. The Higher Education Sector, or student visa approval time for undergraduate and taught master`s degree programs, takes 90% of the applications to take 42 days. Visas for VET programs, equivalent to Tafe training courses, take a relatively long time, from 42 to 74 days.
To apply for secondary school courses, it needs to wait for 4 months of approval time! For 90% student guardian visas, 90% need to wait four months, and applicants who need to apply for student guardianship visas need to be prepared ahead of time.
2. Then there`s the 485 graduate visa that graduates care about.
In the past March, 90% of the old 485TR applications took five months to approve, while new 485TR (PSW) applications took 61 to 75 days
3. Then let`s take a look at the skilled immigrant visa.
The 190-state government guarantee skilled immigrant trial in March was a little faster than in February, taking between eight months and 110 months for approval. Independent skilled immigrants are about the same as they were in February, taking six hours.
4. Finally, it`s about the employer`s guarantee visa.
The Immigration Service continued to process the backlog of guarantee visas for the old 457 employers in March, which has now been approved for more than two years. The approval time for the new visa 482, which replaced the old 457 visa, is relatively fast, so applicants who meet the 482 visa requirements can submit their applications as soon as possible.
To learn more about the processing time of other types of visas in Australia, you can visit the official website of the Immigration Board at:
https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-processing-times/global-visa-processing-times
