What should I do if I don't want to be naturalized when PR expires in Australia?

If you do not meet the naturalization requirements or are unwilling to become an Australian citizen before the PR expires, please apply for an extension of your visa according to the following circumstances:

1. If you are in Australia and have no plans to leave in the short term, you don't need to apply for any extension visa. Although your round-trip visa for permanent residents has expired, as long as you don't leave the country, your permanent resident status will not be affected by the expiration of your round-trip visa. When you need to leave the country, you can apply to the Immigration Bureau for an extension of your visa, as follows:

(1). If you have lived in Australia for two years or more in the past, you can get a five-year multiple-entry permanent resident visa extension;

(2) If you have lived in Australia for less than two years in the past, you can get a three-month multiple-entry permanent resident visa extension;

(3) When the extension visa mentioned in the above (1) is about to expire, apply for extension according to the accumulated days of stay at that time; Regarding the extension of visa in (2), if you have lived in Australia for two years or more, you can apply for extension of visa according to (1). However, if you haven't lived in Australia for two years by then, you may not be extended. You must live in Australia for two years or more to apply for an extension. If you leave the country in a hurry, you may lose your visa to return to Australia.

If you are outside Australia, you must apply to the Australian Embassy for an extension before the visa expires. The conditions are the same as above.

Australia's residence requirements for new immigrants are very relaxed, and new immigrants are not required to live in Australia for a certain number of days each year. Therefore, after obtaining an Australian permanent resident visa, you can go to Australia for the first time, and then you can go to other countries to develop according to your personal needs and settle in Australia at any time within five years.