In India the Department of Immigration and Citizenship of the Australian High Commission is located in the capital city of New Delhi. Australian immigration from India process is carried out from the Indian office and applications belonging to the citizens of India, Bhutan and Nepal are accepted here.
Application forms and fees
The most important feature of any immigration application is the charges or the fee structure. The whole information on the fees for gaining visitor visa is available on the website of Department of Immigration and Citizenship. However, if you want to have specific information then, either you can visit the office in person and get it from the officials or consult reputed immigration agent like Abhinav Outsourcing.
Getting estimate online
To save on your precious time you can as well get the general estimate of the Australian immigration from India process fees through the online Visa Pricing Estimator. For getting accurate information, it is important that you answer all the questions as precisely as possible. The Visa Pricing Estimator only includes the first installment of charges you need to pay for the visas. Always keep in mind that the online figures are only estimates and are bound to be approximate.
The estimator provides you with an estimate that you will be requiring for lodging a visa application. This amount is expected to be paid after the application has been submitted but before the visa is issued to you. Although the Visa Pricing Estimator is a tool provided online by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship the Commonwealth of Australia is not responsible if the estimate is incomplete or inaccurate.
Temporary charge
You might have to pay charge for subsequent temporary application that is usually paid when you are lodging an application for certain temporary visa while staying in Australia. The charge for this visa is AUD/700 per applicant. This amount is in addition to the other applicable charges and visa fees.
Depending upon the temporary visa history, each person submitting an application has to pay these charges on an individual basis. The Visa Pricing Table available on the official website gives you a clear-cut idea whether you should be paying the charges while lodging visa application. Following visa applications do not attract these charges:
€ Visa applications for bridging,
€ Enforcement visas or criminal justice visas,
€ Permanent visa applications
Citizenship and visa options
Australia offers multiple types of visas for various categories. Depending upon the type of visas, the application attracts the charges. These are:
€ Visitors
€ Temporary Work
€ Workers
€ Students
€ Family Migrants
€ Returning Residents
€ Temporary Residents
€ Transit
€ Refugee and Humanitarian Entrants
€ Citizenship
Key points important for all the visa applicants
It is expected of all the visa applicants to provide passport-notarized copy along with the application of visa. The notarized copy must specifically carry:
€ Pages of current passport along with the blank pages if any,
€ Current passport's biodata page,
€ Page citing change of name, and endorsement page in the current passport and
€ The information about name of parents and previous other passports on the back page
Australian immigration from India process involves more such formalities and its information is available on the official website.