Tourist Visa

The Visitor visa (subclass 600) is a temporary visa for people who wish to travel to Australia as tourists, to conduct business or simply to visit relatives in the country.

This visa has provisions for four different streams:

Tourist stream: This visa stream includes individuals who are travelling to Australia for a holiday or recreational purposes. Even if you are going to visit relatives in the country, this visa applies to you.

Business Visitor stream: This visa is for those people who are travelling to Australi on a short business trip or a business visit. Activities such as attending conferences, negotiations, client meeting etc. are part of this visa.

Sponsored Family stream: This visa is applicable for people who are travelling to Australia with the purpose of visiting family. For this visa, you need to have a sponsor who must provide a bond.

Approved Destination Status stream: This visa is only applicable to citizens of the People’s Republic of China who will be travelling in an organized tour group.

Benefits of This Visa:

This visa has some key benefits such as travelling to Australia for:

• Enjoying a holiday or to meet friends and family who are in Australia
• Studying in Australia for a period of up to three months.
• Engage in some business activity, as long as you don’t sell anything directly to the public, or work directly with or for an Australian business organization.

• If you are granted a multiple-entry visa, you may enter Australia as many time as you wish during the validity period of the visa.