Australian visa requirements for Nigerian citizens
Australia is one of the most wonderful countries in the world! It's the land where you can see almost everything upside down. Therefore, it's necessary to visit this country at least once in your life. This article will show you how you can get your Australian visa in Nigeria! Continue reading to find out more!
Australia – country of wonders!
It's not a country – it's a whole continent surrounded by South Pacific and Indian Oceans. This country is also surrounded by ten islands and four seas. The temperature of Australia stays the same almost every year ,semi-arid, coastal or arid.
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One of the most interesting things about Australia is its people. It's a multicultural country with various religions, lifestyles and vast population. Australia is a highly urbanized country and with biggest cities, like Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra, and Sydney. This country has become one of the biggest hubs for art and history.
The greatest tourists’ attractions in the country are the Blue Mountains, Great Barrier Reef, Cataract George, Queen Victoria Museum, Daintree National Park, Sydney Opera House. Moreover, you will also get to see other tourist attractions, like food markets, whale-watching, snorkeling, racing, swimming and so on.
That's why you have thousands of reasons to visit Australia! If you really want to visit this beautiful country, then you will need an Australian visitor visa subclass 600. This Australian visa is required if you need to visit this beautiful country for a short period of time.
The short period of time visit may include reasons, like a visit for the non-work purpose, study, visiting friends or relatives, holidays. The short-term visa period in no more than three months.
Types of Australian Visa
You can apply not only for short-term Australian visitor visa subclass 600, but there are also other variants of visas that can be suitable for you. Check the list!
- Business Visitor;
- Study Visa 500;
- Family Visa subclass 116;
- Partner Visa 309-100;
- Transit Visa subclass 771;
- Temporary work subclass 400;
- Australia Permanent Work Visa Subclass 189.
Nevertheless, you will need to provide documents for every type of visa. It's necessary to provide them to apply to the Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection. This institution will decide whether you get a visa or not. If you provide false documents for your visa, then you may be temporarily or permanently banned from visiting Australia!
Do not try to make any arrangements to visit Australia before you get a visa. If you want to travel with your family members to Australia, then they should also provide documents for the visa application. You can't include all of them into one visa!
Visa Requirements for Nigerian Citizen to Australia
- The first thing that you need to apply for Australian Visa in Nigeria is a valid international passport which will stay valid at least for six months until your stay duration. If you don't have this passport, then you need to get to the nearest immigration office and get your international passport.
- You will be required to fill the Form 1419A to register for the immigration account for an Australian visa. Do not forget that the application should be properly signed and dated.
- If you want to take get a kid with you, then it's needed to fill the Form 157N - where you write down the full data about the kid and the Form 1229, where you are required to provide your consent that your child is traveling to Australia and the person with whom this kid is traveling will bear the full responsibility for the kid.
- It is also necessary to provide a copy of passport of parents/guardians of the children traveling to Australia.
- To get your visa, you will also need to provide one recent photo 45*35 mm. The background of the photo should be white.
- Birth certificate;
- Evidence of financial capacity to travel to Australia. You will have to provide a recent bank statement that will indicate your financial capabilities. It can be documents from your bank about your salary for the last six months. It means that you will be able to pay for all expenses included living and traveling in Australia.
- You will also need to provide the previous visas and stamps in the passport.
- If you are married, then you will need to provide your marriage certificate.
- It's also needed to provide health assessment certificate, where it's included that you are healthy.
- Australia also demands that all travelers will have comprehensive health insurance for their traveling to the country.
- Police clearance certificate.
- Evidence of your employment details.
- Your intended itinerary where you include all your flights for visiting Australia.
- Air flight tickets.
- Evidence of residential address in Australia.
- Evidence for payment of visa process (receipt).
- A prepaid courier and envelope for your documents return.
- If you want to travel to Australia for business, then you will need to get the invitation letter from your partner in Australia. It's also necessary to include the whole data about your partner's firm in Australia.
- If you want to get there for work, then your employer should provide you the invitation letter, where it`s included what kind of work you will do in Australia. Moreover, your employer should include all necessary data about his firm in the invitation letter!
There are a lot of Australian visa requirements for Nigerian citizens. Nevertheless, it's totally worth it! You will never forget the day when you visited this magical country!
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Source: Legit.ng
