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Australia

Visitor visa 600 (no DNV)

PR: Nono programmeUTC+10

No dedicated nomad visa. The figures below describe what the row records; there may be nothing to apply for right now. Always check the official page before acting.

The requirements

Programme status
No dedicated nomad visa
Minimum monthly income
No fixed amount
Required savings
None
Annual total
No fixed amount
Initial duration
3, 6 or 12 months per grant
Family allowed
Yes
Apply online
Yes

No income minimum; sufficient funds for stay.

How this figure is set: The law asks for "sufficient means" and sets no figure. Formula: Visitor visa requires evidence of enough money for the stay; no fixed amount.

Income confidence: medium · checked 2026-09-07
Legal basis: Migration Regulations 1994, Schedule 2 subclass 600.

Does this lead to permanent residence?

No pathway. Visitor status; no PR credit. Australian PR is points/nomination based, never time-served.

Department of Home Affairs visitor visa (subclass 600) pages: visitor visa holders cannot engage in work in Australia, and the visa is temporary by design with no residence accrual. Australian permanent residence is granted through points-tested skilled and nominated programmes, so there is no qualifying period that visitor time could count toward. The distinction matters: it is not that a clock runs slowly, it is that no clock exists for this status.

Pathway confidence: high · checked 2026-09-07

Where it is

Canberra sits at 35.28° S, 149.13° E.

Australia picked out on a world map

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Time zone

  • UTC+10 Sydney (Australia/Sydney)
  • UTC+10 Brisbane (Australia/Brisbane)
  • UTC+9:30 Adelaide (Australia/Adelaide)
  • UTC+9:30 Darwin (Australia/Darwin)
  • UTC+8 Perth (Australia/Perth)

Australia spans 5 offsets. The table shows the capital's.

The country

Region
Oceania · Australia & New Zealand
Capital
Canberra
Currency
AUD

Nearest

Australia has no land border. These are the nearest countries covered here, by the distance between capitals.

What it costs to live there

$2,814 per person, per month. That is what one resident of Australia spends in an average month with housing included — not what a newcomer renting at market rates will spend, which is higher, and furthest above it in the cheapest countries.

Canberra
$2,410 / month incl. rent
of which rent $1,555
Melbourne
$2,331 / month incl. rent
of which rent $1,344

City figures are crowdsourced from livingcost.net, not official: one person's monthly spending plus the rent of a one-bedroom flat outside the centre. They are here because a national average cannot show the spread between a capital and the places people actually move to. Checked 2026-09-20.

Cost of living confidence: high · checked 2026-09-20
World Bank national accounts, reference year 2025: households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (NE.CON.PRVT.CD, current US$) divided by population (SP.POP.TOTL) and by twelve. This is what one resident spends in an average month with housing included, since national accounts count the imputed rent of owner-occupiers. It is an average over the whole population, not a visitor's budget, so a newly arrived remote worker renting at market rates will spend more - see the city figures for what that looks like.

Languages

  • English official
  • Chinese limited

Shares of the population from Unicode CLDR: official, then anything spoken by a quarter of the country, an eighth, or a fiftieth. It answers "will I be understood", not "how good is their English".

How to apply

There is no live application for Australia in this dataset. What the row records about residence: Visitor status; no PR credit. Australian PR is points/nomination based, never time-served.

Home Affairs visitor visa ↗

Visitor visa does not authorise work; incidental remote work tolerated. Working Holiday for ages 18-35.

A starting point, not advice. Figures are converted to US dollars at open-market rates; official thresholds are set in local currency. Sources: official source ↗. Data checked . Compiled by .