Australian visa for graduate students: Start your career here. You are studying in Australia and you’d like to stay and work here. The Skilled Graduate visa subclass 485 is a temporary work visa for you to live and work in Australia upon completion of your course.
How This Visa Works
There are two streams for the Temporary Graduate visa:
There are no restrictions on work or study. With a subclass 485 visa you’ll be able to:
Who Is Eligible For This Visa?
From 19 September 2020, a number of concessions, including 482 applicants, will be available for certain visa holders impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
General Requirements:
Specific Requirements for Graduate Work Stream
Only valid for 18 months
Specific Requirements for Post-study Work Stream
A two-year visa can be granted for a Bachelor or Master’s degree and a four-year visa for a PhD degree.
A 485 visa holder may be able to apply for further stay in Australia, via Employer Sponsorship, Skilled Migration or a Partner visa program.
Study visas are complex. Please contact our team of experienced registered migration experts for immediate advice and assistance.
Employer Sponsorship
Visa
Skilled Person & Want to Live
and Work in Australia
Sponsor My Partner
or Parents
Student Visa or
Graduate Visa
Start a Business or
Invest in Australia
If you have completed the requirements of the Australian Study Requirements which involved studying in Australia under a CRIOS Registered course, then you are eligible to apply for a 485 visa;
You have completed 1 or more degrees, diplomas or trade qualifications for an award by an Australian educational institution as a result of a course or courses:
(a) that are registered courses; and
(b) that were completed in a total of at least 16 calendar months; and
(c) that were completed as a result of a total of at least 2 academic years study; and
(d) for which all instruction was conducted in English; and
(e) undertaken while in Australia as the holder of an appropriate visa;
(f) an academic year is defined as a total of at least 46 weeks.
You may be able to apply for the 485 Graduate Work Stream only if your occupation is on the Medium and Long‑term Strategic Skills List. In addition, you will you need to have a skills assessment of that occupation undertaken by the relevant skills assessing authority of that occupation. Once approved, an 18-month visa will be granted, with no work restrictions;
Yes, you can apply for a 485 Post Study Work Stream Visa. No skills assessment is required and you will be granted a 2-year 485 visa, with no work restrictions.
Ranjeet Kumar, a young man from India, studied and completed Certificate IV in Commercial Cookery and Advanced Diploma of Hospitality Management at one Sydney’s hospitality management institutes in June 2020. His course took him 2 years and 3 months to complete. He approached us to help with his 485 Graduate Visa application.
AustraliaMigrate advised him that a skill assessment as a chef with TRA was required. As he had not completed a degree level qualification he could not apply for the Post Study Work Stream. Fortunately, his occupation of chef was on the 485 list of occupations.
We assisted Ranjeet to apply for his Skills Assessment with TRA and he received a successful outcome. With a positive skill assessment, Ranjeet’s 485 application was lodged together with the other documents required at the lodgement stage, such as an English language test (IELTS or PTE). His visa was granted for 18 months which means he has time to build his work experience as a chef.
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