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AUSTRALIA IMPLEMENTS LABEL FREE VISA PROCESSING
Travelling to Australia has never been this simple. Australia does not require a person holding a valid Australian visa to have a label in their passport to travel to, enter or remain in Australia. Australia’s electronic visa system enables visa status to be confirmed electronically.
From 1st October 2012, if you are traveling to Australia, you still need a visa, but you no longer need a visa label in your passport.
This means:
*No need to courier your passport or wait for it to be returned
*Same day advice about the grant of your visa
*Electronic notification clearly explaining the condition of your visa
As part of the Australian Government’s global program of label free travel to Australia, the Australian High Commission, New Delhi will implement visa label-free travel arrangements across India, Bhutan and Nepal from 1 October 2012.
All visa applicants are requested to provide a notarised copy of their passport at the time of application. This includes:
• all the pages of your current passport, including any blank pages; and
• the biodata page of the current passport, and
• any endorsement page or change of name page in the current passport, and
• the back page with information of parents' names and previous passports.
This request applies to all visa categories. Clients should have their passport with them at the time they lodge their application. Clients who lodge by mail must have every page of their passport copied and notarised by a Notary Public. Clients who do not lodge the above documents will experience delays in the processing of their visa application.
If a visa is then granted, the visa holder will be issued with a visa grant letter that will explain the conditions of the visa including period of validity and entry requirements.
The visa grant letter is not necessary to facilitate travel but we would advise all our clients to carry their visa grant letter with them when traveling as it will provide them with easy to understand information about the conditions of the visa, information which was not always easy to find on Australian visa labels.
We expect that this new process will not only provide our clients with better information about their visas but also reduce visa processing times and costs as clients will no longer have to wait for their passport to be returned to them via a courier or be required to travel to one of our Visa Application Centers to collect their passport.
Using a migration agent / MARA Representative may give an applicant rightful information to lodge a strong and a fully-loaded application which has the option of getting the applicant and his family the need of getting their permanent residence visa.
Bilimoria & Associate is specialised in Immigration visas to Australia with over 22 plus years of experience and will be able to guide applicants to lodge successful visa application based on their eligibility.
Bilimoria & Associate liaisons with Migration Agents Registration Authority (MARA) and Member of Migration Institute of Australia (MIA).
Applicants can forward their resume to assess their eligibility towards obtaining successful family Immigration visa to Australia.
You can write to us to assess your eligibility at: neville@bilimoriaassociate.com (or) contact us +91 44 2822 7222 / 2823 9229 / 4350 8191 between Monday and Saturday, 10.30 am to 5.30 pm to guide you and assist you in your visa application to Australia.