Visa nhân đạo đặc biệt

• stay in Australia permanently
• work and study in Australia
• enrol in Australia's public healthcare scheme, Medicare
• propose family members for permanent residence
• travel to and from Australia for 5 years
• if eligible become an Australian citizen
• attend free English language classes through the Adult Migrant English Program.

This is a permanent visa. It lets you stay in Australia permanently.

You become a permanent resident on the day you enter Australia on this visa. This counts for citizenship purposes.

You can include family in your application when you apply. You can also add certain family members to your application at any time before we decide your application.

For this visa, your family are:

• your partner
• your dependent children
• your partner’s dependent children
• other relative who is a dependant (parent, sibling, grandparent, grandchild, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew or cousin, including step relationships).

If your child is not dependent on you, they must apply for their own visa.

Family members who apply for the visa must meet our health and character requirements.

Family members who are not coming to Australia might also have to meet our health requirement.

It is important to declare all your family members, even if they will not be applying with you.

If you do not declare a family member in your application, you may not be able to propose them for a Humanitarian visa after you arrive in Australia.

If you or your children are granted an Offshore Humanitarian visa based on your vulnerability as a woman, you should sponsor your spouse (or if it is your children, their parent) under the Family stream of the Migration Program.

There is no visa application charge for this visa unless you are proposed under the Community Support Program by an Approved Proposing Organisation.

You must be outside Australia and outside your country of origin when you apply for this visa.

Each year we receive more applications for resettlement than the number of available visas. This means the decision process may take many years and most applications will be unsuccessful. We will tell applicants when their application reaches the next stage of processing or when the application is finalised.

Processing time is lengthy and varies according to the circumstances of each applicant.

Your application can take longer to process if:

• your application form is not filled in correctly
• you do not include all the documents we need, or we need more information from you
• it takes us time to verify your information.

We do not give processing updates.

Priorities

We process SHP applications in order of priority group. Visa applications for family reunion are more likely to be successful if the proposer is an immediate or close family member because they receive a higher priority.

Priority groups within the SHP are as follows:

1. Your proposer is an immediate family member (partner or dependent child, or, if the proposer is under 18 years of age, the proposer's parent). They must also have been granted a Class XB visa or are an Australian citizen who held a Protection or Resolution of Status visa.
   You must also meet the split-family criteria. This means your proposer:
   • was a member of your immediate family when we granted their visa
   • told us about your relationship before we granted their visa
   • proposed your visa application within 5 years of us granting their visa.
2. You do not meet the split-family criteria and your proposer is a close family member (partner, child, parent or sibling) and does not hold a Protection or Resolution of Status visa.
3. Your proposer is an extended family member (grandparent, grandchild, cousin, aunt, uncle, niece or nephew) and does not hold a Protection or Resolution of Status visa.
4. Your proposer is a distant relative, friend or community organisation and does not hold a Protection or Resolution of Status visa.
5. Your proposer holds a Protection or Resolution of Status visa.

A person who arrived in Australia as an unauthorised maritime arrival (UMA) on or after 13 August 2012 cannot propose family members under the Humanitarian Program. This is in line with the Migration Regulations 1994.

To satisfy the criteria for a Woman at Risk/vulnerable women visa in either the subclass 204 (Woman at Risk) or under the SHP, women must not:

• be living with a male person who is over 18 years of age or
• have a male relative residing in the same locality.

Women who are granted a Woman at Risk (subclass 204) visa or who are prioritised under the SHP based on being a vulnerable women should sponsor any existing or new spouses under the Family Stream of the Migration Program. Similarly, children (under 18) who are granted a visa on the basis of their mother’s vulnerability as a woman, should sponsor their parent under the Family Stream of the Migration Program.

If you are granted a visa based on your vulnerability as a woman and the department establishes that you falsely claimed that you were a single woman, we may cancel your visa, and you will not be able to sponsor anyone for a visa. For instance, if you claim your husband is missing when he is not.

We will not prioritise spouses or parents of vulnerable women and their children for visa processing.

The Australian Government has established policy to guide decisions on which applications we should generally give priority. For more information about these priorities, see About the refugee and humanitarian program.

As all humanitarian applicants are in similarly compelling circumstances, the department is unable to expedite applications outside of these priorities.

You must enter Australia before the first entry arrival date (initial arrival date) specified in your grant letter.

If you signed a health undertaking, you must comply with it.

You and your family members must obey all Australian laws.

The Assisted Passage program supports the delivery of Australia’s Offshore Humanitarian Program and provides health screening and medical related services to Special Humanitarian Program visa applicants and visa holders.

The Assisted Passage service has transitioned from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to Toll Remote Logistics Pty Ltd (Toll). Toll are responsible for delivering Assisted Passage services globally.

Toll will help you to attend health appointments and, if you are granted a visa, assist you to travel to Australia.

Help with travel to Australia may be available through the International Organization for Migration (IOM) under their prepaid migration travel program. More information is available on the IOM website Travel to Australia with IOM.

You and your proposer are responsible for paying for your travel to Australia.

Tell us about your travel bookings so that we can ensure you receive settlement assistance when you arrive in Australia.

More information about Assisted Passage services for 202 Global Special Humanitarian visa applicants can be found in the information sheets below:

• Comms for 202 visa holders - English
• Comms for 202 visa holders - Arabic
• Comms for 202 visa holders - Burmese
• Comms for 202 visa holders - Chin Hakha
• Comms for 202 visa holders - Dari
• Comms for 202 visa holders - Farsi
• Comms for 202 visa holders - Karen
• Comms for 202 visa holders - Nepali
• Comms for 202 visa holders - Somali
• Comms for 202 visa holders - Spanish
• Comms for 202 visa holders - Swahili
• Comms for 202 visa holders - Turkish

You and your proposer or approved proposing organisation are responsible for arranging your travel to Australia.

If the first entry arrival date (initial arrival date) specified in your grant letter has passed, contact the visa processing office for a travel facilitation letter. We may first ask you to undergo another medical examination.

You can travel to and from Australia for 5 years from the date we grant the visa. After 5 years you will need a Resident Return (RRV) visa (subclass 155) or (subclass 157) to re-enter Australia.

We will digitally link your visa to your passport or other travel document. You will not get a label.

• You face substantial discrimination or human rights abuses in your home country and you have a proposer or
• You are a member of the immediate family of a person who has been granted this visa and this person is your proposer.

You must:

• Be living outside Australia and outside your country of origin
• Be subject to substantial discrimination in your home country
• The discrimination would amount to a gross violation of your human rights in your home country.

Or

• Living outside Australia
• A member of the immediate family of a person who was granted this visa in the last five years.

You must be proposed for this visa by a person or organisation in Australia.

Your proposer must be one of the following:

• an Australian citizen
• an Australian permanent resident
• an eligible New Zealand citizen or
• an organisation in Australia.

If you are applying for this visa as an immediate family member of a person who was granted this visa, your proposer must be that person.

The cost of the travel is your or your proposer’s responsibility. Toll can provide help to organise travel to Australia. Toll is the department’s Assisted Passage service provider. Your Toll case manager will be in contact with you to offer help. This includes help with:

• booking flights
• getting exits permits and
• providing you with your AMS ImmiCard.

The Australian Migration Status (AMS) ImmiCard is an official International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) compliant travel document. It is also an identity document that you can use in Australia to prove your eligibility for government services and to check your visa details.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) can also help you. Learn more at the International Organization for Migration website.

You or your proposer should tell the Department about your travel bookings. This is so that we can send you an invitation to attend the Australian Cultural Orientation (AUSCO) program before you travel to Australia and settlement assistance when you arrive in Australia.

Your proposer also has other responsibilities to help you settle in Australia.

Select the ‘For Proposers’ switch at the top of this page for information about proposing.

You and any family members who apply for the visa with you must meet our health requirement.

Family members who do not apply with you might also have to meet our health requirement.

If you have compassionate and compelling circumstances, we might waive your health requirement

You and any family members who apply for the visa with you must meet our character requirement.

Family members who do not apply with you might also have to meet our character requirement.

If you are 18 years of age or older, you must confirm you will respect the Australian way of life and obey Australian laws by signing or accepting the Australian Values Statement.

If you owe the Australian Government money, you must have paid it back or have a formal arrangement to pay it back.

Before you leave

To find out about Australian history, culture, society and values, read the Life in Australia booklet.

You must come to Australia initially by the date specified in the letter we sent you when we granted your visa.

Find support

You or your proposer must pay for you to travel to Australia.

You will be contracted by Toll, who are the Department’s Assisted Passage service provider, to offer assistance with your travel arrangements to Australia.

Once you arrive, your proposer has responsibilities to help you settle in Australia.

The Australian Government also offers some general support services for visa holders.

Australian Cultural Orientation (AUSCO) Program

This 5-day program is free and open to all humanitarian visa holders over the age of 5. It is delivered overseas, to give you an understanding of life in Australia before you arrive.

Read more about the AUSCO program.

Humanitarian Settlement Program

This service will contact your proposer once your visa is approved. It is free and runs across Australia. The focus is on helping you to learn English and to gain education or work skills.

Read more about the Humanitarian Settlement Program.

Departure health check

You, and any family members travelling with you on the visa, may have a health check in the 72 hours before you leave for Australia. An approved immigration panel physician must do the check. This will assist in reducing any health issues after you arrive, and make resettlement easier.

Your departure health check might include:

• checking that you are healthy enough to travel
• a physical check up
• a pregnancy test
• tests for communicable diseases
• vaccinations if needed, such as for measles, mumps and rubella
• treatment of parasites and infestations if needed

You must agree to follow up on any health conditions after you arrive in Australia.

Check your travel documents

You must have a valid travel document.

At the Border

Completing an Incoming Passenger Card

All people arriving in Australia must complete the Incoming Passenger Card. You will get a card on board.

What can you do when you have this visa

• stay in Australia permanently
• work and study in Australia
• enrol in Australia's public healthcare scheme, Medicare
• propose family members for permanent residence
• travel to and from Australia for 5 years
• if eligible become an Australian citizen
• attend free English language classes through the Adult Migrant English Program

What you must do on your visa

You and your family members must obey all Australian laws.

Tell us if things change

Things you need to let us know about include:

• changes to your phone number, email, address or passport
• changes to your relationship status
• the birth of a child

See what to do if your situation changes.

Travelling on your visa

You can travel to and from Australia for 5 years from the date we grant the visa. After 5 years you will need a Resident Return (RRV) visa (subclass 155) to re-enter Australia. To see when the 5 years ends, use VEVO.

Work and study

With this visa, you can work and study. You are protected by Australian workplace law. For more information on your workplace rights and entitlements see Visa holders and migrant workers.

Bringing family

As an Australian permanent resident, you might be able to sponsor eligible family members to come to Australia.

To find a visa for your family member, explore visa options.

You can also propose a family member for a Subclass 202 Global Special Humanitarian visa.

Becoming an Australian citizen

After a certain time, you might be eligible for Australian citizenship. Find out more about becoming an Australian citizen.

For citizenship purposes, your permanent residency starts on the day you entered Australia on this visa.

Before you leave

Check your travel documents

You must have a valid passport or non-citizen travel document to leave Australia. Find out more about non-citizen travel documents.

You must tell us if you have a new travel document so that we can link it to your visa.

You cannot use your ImmiCard to leave Australia and return.

Ensure your visa is still valid and allows for re-entry to Australia

Your visa allows you to travel overseas and return to Australia for 5 years from the date we grant the visa. To see when the 5 years ends, use VEVO. After 5 years you will need a Resident Return (RRV) visa (subclass 155) to re-enter Australia.

See what to do if your visa has expired or is about to expire.

At the Border

Leaving the airport faster

We have an automated process that uses facial recognition technology and your ePassport. You could leave the airport faster if you use SmartGate.

After you leave

Proving you have been to Australia

Request your international movement records to get proof of your travel in and out of Australia.

You can propose an applicant to come to Australia if they are experiencing discrimination amounting to violation of their human rights in their home country. They must be outside their home country.

You must be an eligible proposer to submit an application for this visa.

A charge will apply if you are proposing someone under the Community Support Program.

If the application is approved, you and the visa holder are responsible for arranging and paying for their travel to Australia.

Assistance for travel to Australia may be available through the International Organization for Migration (IOM) under their prepaid migration travel scheme. For more information see australia.iom.int/travel-assistance-migration-australia-iom-australia

See what to do when your situation changes.

• You are an Australian citizen, an Australian permanent resident or an eligible New Zealand citizen
• You did not come to Australia as an illegal maritime arrival on or after 13 August 2012

or

• You are an Australian organisation

or

• You are an Approved Proposing Organisation. The Community Support Program enables communities and businesses to propose applicants with employment prospects (and their families) and support their settlement in Australia. Only Approved Proposing Organisations (APOs) may propose people for entry to Australia under the Community Support Program.

In the past 5 years, you must have been granted a:

• Refugee visa (subclass 200)
• In-country Special Humanitarian visa (subclass 201)
• Global Special Humanitarian visa (subclass 202)
• Emergency Rescue visa (subclass 203)
• Woman at Risk visa (subclass 204)
• Protection visa (subclass 866), or
• Resolution of Status visa (subclass 851)

The applicant must be your partner, dependent child or, if you are not 18 or more years of age, your parent or step-parent (immediate family).

You must have declared the applicant as an immediate family member to us before your visa was granted.

You did not come to Australia as an illegal maritime arrival on or after 13 August 2012.

You must meet all these obligations. Even if you have authorised someone else to act for you, such as a migration agent.

Obligations related to the person you propose

If the applicant is granted this visa, you should be prepared to:

• pay for your family's airfares to Australia
• meet them at the airport
• provide their accommodation on arrival
• help them to find permanent accommodation

You should also familiarise them with services and service providers, such as:

• banks
• Centrelink
• childcare
• education
• employment services
• healthcare
• permanent housing
• public transport
• translating and interpreting services

General obligations

You must:

• provide us with information if we request it
• tell us if things change
• obey the law
• continue to meet the eligibility criteria to be a proposer
• not give false or misleading information to us or the Migration Review Tribunal

Support for the person you propose

The Humanitarian Settlement Program will contact you with general information about supporting the applicant.

You can withdraw your proposal only before we grant the visa. See how to withdraw visa application.

You must contact us if:

• your name, address or contact details change
• you can no longer support the visa holder

If you can no longer support the visa holder, you must contact your nearest office immediately. This is so that you and the visa holder receive the services for which you are eligible.