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Australia Working and skilled visas

Subclass 888

Business Innovation and Investment (Permanent) visa

For entrepreneurs, investors and business owners to continue their activity in Australia.

Subclass 188

Business Innovation and Investment (Provisional) visa

This visa allows you to own and manage a business in Australia, conduct business and investment activity in Australia or undertake an entrepreneurial activity in Australia.

Subclass 890

Business owner visa

This visa is for people who own and manage a business in Australia. It allows you to stay in Australia indefinitely. To apply as a primary applicant, you must have a qualifying visa granted on a particular basis.

Subclass 858

National Innovation visa

This is a permanent visa for people who have an internationally recognised record of exceptional and outstanding achievement in an eligible area.

Subclass 891

Investor visa

This visa is for people who undertake business and investment activities in Australia. It allows you to stay in Australia indefinitely. To apply as a primary applicant, you must have a qualifying visa granted on a particular basis.

Subclass 191

Permanent Residence (Skilled Regional) visa

This visa allows workers who hold an eligible visa and meet an income requirement to live and work in Australia permanently.

Subclass 192

Pacific Engagement visa

This visa allows people of Pacific island countries and Timor-Leste to live and work in Australia permanently.

Subclass 187

Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme visa

This visa allows a child to stay in Australia permanently and live with their parents.

Subclass 494

Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional (Provisional) visa

This visa enables regional employers to address identified labour shortages within their region by sponsoring skilled workers where employers can't source an appropriately skilled Australian worker.

Subclass 189

Skilled Independent visa

This visa is for invited workers, eligible New Zealand citizens, and eligible Hong Kong or British National (Overseas) passport holders with skills we need, to live and work permanently anywhere in Australia.

Subclass 190

Skilled Nominated visa

This visa lets nominated skilled workers live and work in Australia as permanent residents.

Subclass 489

Skilled Regional (Provisional) visa

• For skilled workers who want to live and work in regional Australia
• You can bring your family
• If you are granted this visa, you might be able to apply for the Skilled Regional (Permanent) visa (subclass 887)

Subclass 887

Skilled Regional visa

This visa is for people who have lived and worked in specified areas of regional Australia on a previous, eligible visa.

Subclass 491

Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) visa

A visa for skilled people nominated by a state or territory government to live and work in regional Australia.

Subclass 892

State or Territory Sponsored Business Owner visa

This visa is for people who own and manage a business in Australia. It allows you to stay in Australia indefinitely. To apply as a primary applicant, you must have a qualifying visa granted on a particular basis.

Subclass 893

State or Territory Sponsored Investor visa

This is a permanent resident visa for subclass State/Territory Sponsored Investor (Provisional) visa (subclass 165) holders who have held a designated investment of AUD750,000 for 4 years.

Subclass 408

Temporary Activity visa

This visa allows you to come to Australia to do specific types of work on a short-term, temporary basis.

Subclass 485

Temporary Graduate visa

A temporary visa that allows international students to live, study, and work after you have finished your studies.

Subclass 403

Temporary Work (International Relations) visa

A temporary visa to work in specific circumstances that improve Australia’s international relations.

Subclass 400

Temporary Work (Short Stay Specialist) visa

The Highly Specialised Work stream of this temporary visa lets you do short-term, highly specialised work in Australia. It is suitable if you have specialised skills, knowledge, or experience not generally available in Australia.

Subclass 482

Skills in Demand

This temporary visa lets an employer sponsor a suitably skilled worker to fill a position they can’t find a suitably skilled Australian to fill.

Subclass 187

Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme visa

This visa allows a child to stay in Australia permanently and live with their parents.