Medical visa
Medical Treatment Visa (subclass 602)
This is a temporary visa. You can stay in Australia until the treatment plan or consultation is completed. It will be decide based on your situation.
This visa permits you: –
- Stay in Australia until the treatment plan or consultations are finished.
- Be granted single entry or multiple entries to Australia depending on your situation.
- Study for up to 3 months (or longer if you meet the exemption criteria).
- You can’t work in Australia under this visa, except under limited circumstances..
For this visa you should be in one of these situations.
- Intend to have medical treatment or consultations in Australia
- Intend to donate an organ to someone in Australia
- Intend to support a patient or organ donor who holds or is applying for this visa
- Intend to receive an organ from someone who travels to Australia with you
- Intend to come to Australia under the arrangements between the Western Province of Papua New Guinea and the Queensland Department of Health
- Arrange for payment of medical treatment (New criteria summary)
- Not hold this visa If you are in Australia, you must not hold, or the last substantive visa you held must not have been, a Temporary Work (International Relations) visa (subclass 403) that was granted in the Domestic Worker (Diplomatic or Consular) stream.
- Be able to support yourself
- Be in Australia, aged 50 years or older, been refused an Australian permanent visa on health grounds only and are unfit to depart Australia
You must not have a medical condition that could be a threat to public health.
