AUSTRALIA TOURIST VISA | SUNLAND EDUCATION The Visa policy of Australia deals with the requirements that a foreign national wishing to enter Australia must meet to obtain a visa, which is a permit to travel, to enter and remains in the country.
Visitor Visa: for the people who need to come to Australia for a short duration for tourism or business purposes. They are issued for the periods up to three, six or twelve months. Selected Chinese citizens can be issued ten-year visas from the end of 2016 when applying from china. In 1987, the department of Immigration and Ethnic affairs initiated a scheme which saw the utilization of computers to process, visitor visa applications in overseas Australian missions for the first time. In 1990, a second generation of immigration Records and information system (IRIS 2) was introduced as a replacement of the original 1987 scheme. At, the time, IRIS2 was the most advanced visa processing system in the world, simplifying immigration clearance processes at airports and enabling across-the-counter visa issue at the Australian diplomatic missions.