Student Visa Subclass 500

Overview

• Student visa is for those who hope to undertake a course of study on a full-time basis in Australia.

• To apply for a student visa, you will first need to get enrolled into an Australian educational institution and obtain Confirmation of Enrollment (CoE) or, in some cases, Offer of Letter which forms the basis of a student visa application.

• The validity period of the visa depends on the duration of the course you are enrolled in.

• You may include your family in your visa application.

Location

You can be in or outside Australia at the time of application and visa grant.

Tricks and Common Reasons for Refusal

1 – Genuine Temporary Entrant (GTE)

The trickiest criterion of Subclass 500 visa is applicant must be a genuine temporary entrant (GTE). This, unfortunately, has been the primary reason for the refusal of a Subclass 500 visa application. Obviously, the term ‘GTE’ implies the Immigration wants the applicant to leave Australia before the visa expires rather than seek to extend their stay. But the question here is: how does the Immigration decide who is a GTE? The factors considered by the Immigration include but are not limited to:

• The applicant’s immigration history

• The applicant’s overall circumstances

• The circumstances in the applicant’s home country

• The relevance of applicant’s intended course to their previous study​​

At the end of the day, however, it all comes down to a judgement call made solely by the Immigration based on the supporting documentation and information available. The high discretionary and subjective nature can indeed be quite disturbing as it keeps the entire application up in the air.

Consequently, part of our process for assisting you with Subclass 500 visa is help you prepare a vitally important, formal, exclusive and comprehensive legal submission by drawing on our nearly 20 years’ industry experience, convincingly addressing and arguing every single factor to your advantage because we are fully aware of what factors the Immigration is looking at exactly and the rationale and mentality behind every one of them. We are positive this will significantly increase your chances of a visa grant, just as it has for our previous clients.

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2 – Unfamiliarity with How the Australian Immigration Works and Its Mentality

In many cases, applicants prepare and submit their supporting documentation in a disorderly way, giving the Immigration a hard time digging through tons of paperwork to get things in the right order when picking up a new visa application. This will potentially lead to endless back-and-forth clarification and explanation, wasting both sides lots of time and can even result in a refusal of Subclass 500 visa.

This is common since applying for a visa, especially a permanent one, is the very first time to most applicants. For this reason, our team have developed our own system for labelling, coding, structuring and, where necessary, cross-referencing documentation so your application can be submitted in the most presentable and logical manner. Making your application stand out among all competitors has been our goal from day one.

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3 – Careless Yet Costly Mistakes

Applying for migration is seen as a delicate work of art due to the staggering amount of attention, paperwork, and details involved. A seemingly minor/harmless error such as a typo in your résumé, a date entered wrong, or a tick in the wrong box in the lengthy visa application form can prove costly as the Immigration processes all visa applications strictly in accordance with migration law, in particular Migration Act 1958 and Migration Regulations 1994. Even a small error can be regarded as failing to satisfy a visa requirement and therefore lead to a visa refusal. To minimise such incidents, our team pay extra attention while editing and drafting every client’s paperwork and always proofread and also conduct a final review of documentation before submission.

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4 – Applications Not Being Decision-ready

Another common reason for refusal, even instant refusal, for Subclass 500 visa is submitting an application without all the required documentation. This happens when the application was prepared carelessly, or when the applicant was trying to rush an application for whatever reason (e.g. meeting a cut-off date of a major migration policy change which happens almost each and every year and often catches people off guard).

Even with 43 years of team experience, we handle each application cautiously and meticulously like our first to ensure nothing slips through the cracks. Should a sudden change of policy hit and impact you, we are more than capable of advising you how to salvage your application in terms of what documents are mandatory at the time of submission and what can wait so you are never in danger of a straight-up visa refusal upon submission.

Application Fees​

You may include your family in the application so your family can migrate to Australia together.

• Main applicant: $650

• Each secondary applicant aged 18 or over: $485

• Each secondary applicant under 18: $160

Please note: you may incur third-party charges, for example, for enrolment, translation, English test, police certificate and health exam.