Adoption Visa to Australia

Adoption visas are not easy to obtain. The rules are very complex as the visa process must protect children's rights. You should employ a migration agent.

This section of the law permits citizens or permanent residents of Australia to have a child under 18 brought into Australia for adoption. An applicant for this visa must either have been adopted or currently be in the course of being adopted. The child has to be sponsored.

If the overseas child was adopted prior to the time that  the person sponsoring became an Australian citizen, holder of a permanent visa or an eligible New Zealand citizen, the application cannot be made in this category. It is usually better to use the child visa category.

Visa requirements contain the rule that the child be younger than 18. If younger than 18 when the application is made but will become 18 prior to the application’s being decided, the child will not be eligible for a visa in this category. The adoption has to be supported by one of the State or Territory adoption authorities, unless the parent has been living overseas for at least 12 months when the migration application is made, and the parent can show that their overseas residence was not intended to avoid the requirements of the visa about the entry of adopted children.

ASSISTANCE WITH THIS VISA OR OTHER VISAS?

This is a difficult visa application because of the amount of details of a personal nature that must be proven. Each visa candidate must meet all the requirements of the visa application. The help of an agent is very strongly advised. Here is our general link to the Migration Agents Registration Authority so that you can better understand what migration agents do with regard to visas, their duties and your rights in regard to Agents’ work in Australian Visas and Citizenship.