Australian Business Skills Visa - Visas For Australia

Business Skills
Investor(Provisional) Subclass 162

There are two stages of the Australian business skills visa application (Provisional). First you must apply for the business skills provisional visa, this is a temporary visa to allow you to travel to Australia to start your business, or join a suitable firm. The Australian Business Skills program also has four categories for persons who are in Australia on temporary visas, other than the Business Skills (Provisional) visas:

Listed below are the 4 categories of the Business Skills program:

1. Business Owner (Provisional) Visa
This visa is for successful owners or part-owners of a business.

2. Senior Executive (Provisional) Visa
This visa is for successful senior executive employees of major businesses.

3. Investment Linked (Provisional) Visa
This visa is for successful investors/business people willing to invest into Australia

4. Business Talent Visa
This visa is for high-calibre business people who have sponsorship from a State/Territory government.

Once you have been successfully operating your business for at least 2 years, you are then eligible to for a permanent Business Owner (Residence) Visa Subclass 890, or the State/Territory Sponsored Investor (Residence) Visa, Subclass 893,

Australian Business Skills Provisional Visa and Australia Business Skills Residence Visa material on this website is purely available as an information resource. For more up to date information on the Business skills program please visit the Australian Governments Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs.