7月1日澳大利亚学生签证有新的变化
Assessment level 3 and 4 students in Australia who require a further
student visa to complete their Year 12 studies will be exempt from the
requirements that they be under 18 years of age and that their course be
more than 16 months in duration.
Students may not be able to complete their studies before their student
visa expires because they have to repeat Year 12 or require a longer period
of English language tuition than originally expected.
To be eligible for the exemption, these students must have successfully
completed Year 11 in Australia and provide evidence of enrolment in Year 12.
Australian curriculum secondary school courses undertaken outside Australia
(subclass 571)
Assessment level 3 and 4 student visa applicants applying outside Australia
were, prior to 1 July 2002, exempted from undertaking a principal course of
at least 16 months if they had undertaken outside Australia a secondary
school course of at least two years duration with an Australian curriculum
and conducted in English by an Australian provider with Australian teaching
staff.
From 1 July 2002, the requirement for teaching staff to be Australians has
been replaced by a requirement that the applicant is recognised by the
relevant State or Territory education authority as meeting the requirements
for successful completion of the relevant years of their overseas secondary
course.
Changes to care arrangements for student visa applicants under 18 years of
age
Public Interest Criterion 4012A and visa condition 8532 apply to student
visa applicants who have not turned 18 years of age and are not AusAID or
Defence students (subclass 576).
Such applicants must either (a) reside in Australia with a parent, or a
person who has custody of them, or a person nominated by either the parent
or the person having custody of them, or (b) provide evidence that they
will be going into care arrangements - for their accommodation, support and
general welfare - approved by the education provider for the course in
which they are enrolled.
The changes, which are detailed below, apply to applicants who will not be
going into care arrangements approved by their education provider.
Only a parent of the applicant or a person who has custody of the applicant
will be allowed to nominate a carer for the applicant.
A person who has custody of the applicant is a person who has the right to
have the daily care and control of the applicant and the right and
responsibility to make decisions concerning their daily care and control.
The only persons who may be nominated as a carer by a parent or by a person
who has custody of the applicant are a relative of the applicant who is at
least 21 years old and who is of good character.
Previously, any person aged at least 18 years, including a non-relative,
could be nominated as a carer. The carer must also have the right to remain
in Australia for the period that the student is under 18 years of age.
A relative eligible to be nominated as a carer includes a brother, sister,
step-parent, step-brother, step-sister, grandparent, aunt, uncle, niece or
nephew, step-grandparent,
step-aunt, step-uncle, step-niece or step-nephew.
To establish that a nominated carer is of good character, the applicant
will be required to provide evidence of police clearance of the carer in
the country or countries in which they have resided for more than 12 months
in the past 10 years after the age of 16.
Details on how to obtain a police clearance are contained in form 47P
Character Requirement: Police Certificates.
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