Applicant resources
The documents you are asked to read, sign or check
Every Australian visa application comes with documents the Department expects you to have read: a values statement to sign, a booklet it refers to, a privacy notice about your personal information. This page keeps them in one place, in the Department’s own words, alongside the reference pages we maintain on fees, processing times and occupation lists.
Department documents reproduced unchanged and checked against the source on 26 August 2026 · the Department’s version prevails
Documents from the Department of Home Affairs
Reproduced in full so you can read them where you are, with a link to the Department’s original on every page.
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Declaration
Australian Values Statement and the Life in Australia booklet
The statement every applicant for most temporary, provisional and permanent visas must sign or accept, in both its temporary and permanent versions, with the booklet it refers to and its editions in 40 community languages.
- Issuer
- Department of Home Affairs
- Version
- Department page updated 23 September 2024
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Notice
Privacy notice (Form 1442i)
The Privacy Act notice the Department gives every person whose personal information it collects: what it collects, under which laws, for what purposes, and who it discloses to. Readable on the page or as the original PDF.
- Issuer
- Department of Home Affairs
- Version
- Form design date July 2026
Why these documents come with every application
The Australian Values Statement is a condition of applying, not a formality attached to the outcome. Applicants for most temporary, provisional and permanent visas confirm that they have read the Life in Australia booklet, or had it explained to them, and undertake to conduct themselves in accordance with the values it describes and to obey Australian law. Permanent applicants add two further undertakings: to make reasonable efforts to learn English, and to pledge loyalty to Australia if they later become citizens. An application lodged without the statement may be delayed or refused.
The Form 1442i privacy notice exists because the Privacy Act 1988 obliges the Department to tell you how it handles the personal information a visa application contains, which is extensive: identity, health, relationships, employment, and in many cases biometrics. The notice explains the laws the Department collects under, the purposes it uses information for, and the agencies, registers and overseas governments it may disclose to. We provide it to every client with our authority to act, because the Department treats the information in an application as collected from you regardless of who lodges it.
Reading both before you sign is the point. If anything in either document is unclear in English, the Department publishes the booklet in 40 community languages, and your solicitor can explain the statement to you.
Reference pages we maintain
Figures and lists that change on the Department’s schedule, kept current on ours. Each page states the date its data was verified.
Fee schedule
Australian visa costs
Government application charges for partner, skilled, employer sponsored and student visas, with additional-applicant and employer-side costs separated out.
Charges as at 1 July 2026
Data
Visa processing times
Current processing times by subclass and stream, taken from the Department’s published figures each month.
Refreshed monthly from the Department’s tool
Occupation list
OSCA occupations
Every occupation in the Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, with the visas each one is eligible for.
Verified against the in-force instrument
Occupation list
Core Skills Occupation List (CSOL)
The occupations that can be nominated for the 482 Skills in Demand and 186 Employer Nominated visas.
Verified against the in-force instrument
Directory
Skills assessing authorities
Which authority assesses which occupation, what each requires, and what it costs.
Fees and timeframes per authority
Data
Visa appeal statistics
How migration reviews at the Administrative Review Tribunal actually resolve, by case type.
From the Tribunal’s published caseload data
Unsure what a document means for your application?
A short consultation is enough to explain what you are signing, what the Department will do with your information, and what your particular pathway requires beyond the standard documents.
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