Four factors of Australian electronic visa processing speed

Recently, Australian education exhibitions and college enrollment activities are very frequent, and many students are also interested in enrolling next spring. According to industry sources, considering the time and operability, it will be faster and more appropriate for students to apply for an Australian study visa by using e-visa. However, due to the lack of openness in the interpretation of e-visa, many applicants feel mysterious and blindly optimistic about e-visa, such as not knowing how to apply. Or start applying at the end of the class. To this end, officials of the Australian Agency for International Development and Education stressed that e-visa is not everything! You can't take it for granted. E-visa is not open to individuals. It is understood that in order to shorten the visa approval time, the Australian Immigration Bureau began to pilot the student electronic visa in China last summer, and it was officially launched in June at 5438+065438+ 10. The Australian Immigration Service classifies all countries of origin of international students into five risk levels, and China is ranked as the fourth highest risk country. Because China applicants submit false materials, overstay or apply for a protection visa after the student visa expires, and the student visa is cancelled during the study period, the Australian government is very cautious in implementing e-visa in China. This caution is mainly manifested in three aspects: 1. Not directly open to applicants, but choose some experienced intermediaries with good records in the Immigration Bureau as agents (there are currently 82 in China); 2. After the applicant obtains the visa, all the application materials must be kept by the agency for one year. If there is a problem with the students who have been spot-checked, their qualifications will be cancelled, and the agency will also be punished, or even the e-visa qualification will be cancelled; 3. In the process of e-visa processing, the Immigration Bureau will adopt the methods of "targeted investigation" and "random sampling" to ensure that the student applications submitted by these intermediaries are true and reliable. The processing speed is affected by four aspects. One difference between e-visa and traditional visa is that the approval speed is fast. Some cases are approved within three to five working days, but some cases also take 1-2 months or even longer. According to IDP official introduction, there are many reasons: 1. Fixed electronic visa acceptance procedures. These applications will be distributed to Australian visa officers for approval within 3 working days, usually 5 working days, after the application agency completes all the steps such as online information input. If the submitted materials are complete, true and clear, and consistent with the first approval of the visa officer, it is not surprising that they will be approved within 3 to 5 days; If the visa officer has questions or missing materials, there will be problems such as supplementary materials, and the approval time will be extended. 2. The visa materials are "incomplete", which leads to the extension of the visa time. Generally speaking, a complete application can be completed within 2 weeks, and an incomplete application can be completed within 6 weeks. What is "incomplete" material? It is the lack of evidence needed by the immigration bureau to make the evaluation results, such as the results of physical examination, some major documents and materials that need to be uploaded online, and applications whose investigation results have not yet come out, which are incomplete. There are many factors, such as whether there are mistakes in intermediary operation, whether the medical examination hospital cooperates, whether the applicant cooperates, whether it is unlucky to be selected as a random sampling object, etc. According to IDP, the electronic visa system is an online operating system based on Internet transmission. Whether you can successfully log on to the visa website of the Australian Immigration Bureau and whether the two parties can dock smoothly is directly related to whether your application can be successfully issued. To this end, the Australian Immigration Bureau is making various attempts and cooperation. 4. The influence of visa peak period on speed. Adelaide Visa Center is mainly responsible for the examination and approval of traditional visas for Indian students and electronic visas for China and China. At present, the visa center has 22 visa officers, 9 of whom are responsible for the examination and approval of electronic visas. July and August will be the peak periods for Indian students to submit e-visas, which may slow down the approval process or cause confusion. Three types of people can't use electronic visas. Some applicants with student visas cannot use online e-visas. For example, students applying for international student research scholarships, guardians of students under 18, and China students studying in other countries must submit visa applications in traditional written form. It is reported that the Immigration Bureau strongly opposes the phenomenon that applicants keep urging. In fact, the Immigration Bureau explicitly requires that the submission time of e-visa should be no later than 3 months and no earlier than 4 months. However, due to the precedent of getting a visa in a short time, many intermediaries and students are willing to take the risk to start applying when they leave school very close. If the application is not approved as scheduled, the enrollment schedule will be very tight, and even the enrollment will be delayed. Therefore, the student union often urges the intermediary to send an email or fax to the immigration office for inquiries. In fact, this is usually meaningless, because your urging will only get an automatic reply based on the template, and it will disturb the normal approval of the visa officer. In particular, the Immigration Bureau is very opposed to fax reminders. Generally speaking, the electronic visa application submitted by the Immigration Bureau through the Internet is very direct, clear, true and qualified. Therefore, whether an applicant submits a visa through an electronic visa must listen to the advice of the intermediary. If your situation is complicated and needs a lot of written documents, it is recommended that you apply in traditional written form, and the approval time will usually not exceed 8 weeks.