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About ThE SKILLED Visa
The Skilled Independent Visa is a points-tested visa.
When you submit your Eligibility Assessment you will be given an indicative points score based on the claims you have made. If you do not obtain a score of ‘65 or more’ points you can not apply for a skilled visa at this point. If you score 65 points or more you should proceed to explore your options further.
Note, when you submit your application you must provide evidence supporting your claims. To calculate how many points you may score take the Eligibility Assessment. You can then also identify areas of improvement in order to boost your score with our ‘SELF IMPROVEMENT CALCULATOR’.
With a skilled visa, you can
- stay in Australia permanently
- Work, study and live anywhere in Australia
- Enrol in Australia’s free, world-class, public health care scheme
- sponsor your relatives to come to Australia
- if eligible, become an Australian citizen
How long you can stay
The Skilled Independent Visa is a permanent visa. It lets you stay in Australia indefinitely. You become a permanent resident on the day the Department grants the visa. For citizenship purposes, your permanent residence starts on the day;
- you are granted the visa if you are in Australia
- you enter Australia on this visa if you are outside Australia
Include family
You can include members of the family unit in your application. You can:
- include them when you lodge your visa application
- add them after you lodge your application but before the Department decides on your visa.
Apply from
You can be ‘in’ or ‘outside’ Australia when you apply for the visa and when the Department decides on your application, but not in immigration clearance.
If you are applying in Australia for a Skilled Independent Visa, you must hold a substantive or a subclass 010 Bridging A visa, a subclass 020 Bridging B visa or a subclass 030 Bridging C visa, otherwise your application will not be processed.
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