This is one of the most common points of confusion in Australian family migration matters: a couple with a live Subclass 300 Prospective Marriage visa application hears practitioners talking mostly about the 309 and begins to worry that they have chosen the wrong...
Yes, you can — provided you yourself are living in a designated regional area. In the family stream of the Subclass 491 visa, the sponsor and the applicant do not need to live in the same state; a resident of regional NSW can sponsor a sister living in Adelaide....
A viewer has sent in a question that lands squarely on a blind spot in many skilled migration matters: “I’m in NSW and my sister wants to live in Adelaide — is 491 sponsorship possible?” The answer turns not on state borders, but on a precise legal concept: the...
A family sponsor under the family-sponsored stream of the 491 visa must be at least 18 years of age and must be an Australian citizen, a permanent resident, or an eligible New Zealand citizen — that is, a protected SCV holder. The sponsor must also ordinarily reside...
This is one of the questions I am asked most often about the family-sponsored stream of the Subclass 491 visa: does the sponsoring relative need to be a citizen, and what happens if that relative is themselves living in a regional area on a 491 visa? Dr Sirous Ahmadi,...
