education visa

Student Visa

With this visa

  • Participate in an eligible course of study
  • Bring family members to Australia with you
  • Apply online in or outside Australia
  • Maximum 5 year stay in one visa.

Eligibility Criteria

You must

  • Be enrolled in a course of study in Australia
  • Hold Overseas Student Health Cover (OSHC), or fall in one of the exemption categories
  • Must be 6 years or older
  • Prove you have a welfare arrangement, if you are under 18
  • If in Australia hold an eligible substantive visa. See, ‘Have this Visa if applying while in Australia” in Eligibility Tab.
  • Show financial capacity

How to count funds requirements for a student visa.

You need to show

  1. 12 month stay expense AUD 21,041 in Australia
  2. 12 month course fee (if 6 month paid only 6 months)
  3. Travel expense (2000 AUD) Approx.
  4. If adding spouse AUD7,362
  5. If adding dependent Child AUD 3,152
  6. If dependent student is school aged then AUD 8,296 for 12 months.

Second way to show

Primary applicant’s parent, spouse or de facto partner has a personal annual income, in the 12 months immediately before the application is made, that is:

  • If single: AUD 62,222; or
  • If including family at least AUD72,592.

What are accepted to show the funds

The following forms of evidence of financial capacity are specified:

(a) Money deposit with a financial institution;

(b) Loan with a financial institution;

(c) Government loans