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Student Guardian visa (subclass 590)
About the Visa
The Student Guardian visa is a temporary visa that allows a parent, custodian or a relative to come to Australia to provide care and support for a student visa holder who is under 18 years of age or older due to exceptional circumstances.
Cost
The visa costs from AUD710.00 for the main applicant.
DURATION
You can stay in Australia until a date specified on your visa grant letter. In deciding this date, the Department usually consider the length of the student visa holder’s stay or when that student turns 18.
Eligibility Requirements
- Have a certain visa
- Be a parent, custodian or a relative
- Have enough money for your stay
- If any member of your family unit has not turned 6, you cannot be granted the visa unless:
- There are compelling and compassionate reasons or
- Granting the visa would significantly benefit the relationship between the Australian Government and the government of another country, you are 21 and if the student visa holder has not turned 18, the nomination is supported by a parent or someone with custody of the student
- Make welfare arrangements for dependants overseas
- Have adequate health insurance
- Be a genuine temporary entrant
- Meet the health requirement
- Meet character requirement
- Sign the Australian values statement
- Have no debt to the Australian Government
- Not had a visa cancelled or an application refused
- Best interests of the child
What can you do when you have this visa?
With this visa you can:
- Come to Australia to provide care and support for a student visa holder who is under the age of 18 years of age (or over 18 in exceptional circumstances)
- Care for more than one student
- Study an English Language Intensive Course for Overseas Students (ELICOS) for less than 20 hours per week, or any other study or training for no more than 3 months
- You cannot work