Need a tourist visa from Thailand to Australia? Australian tourist visa, also known as Visitor Visa. Commonly called “holiday visas” too, travel visas, visa 600’s, or very often “Just a simple tourist visa”. Well, actually they are not a simple visa application as many imagine, although many assume otherwise that such a visa application will be a mere formality (and are shocked when it’s refused!)
Anyone who is not an Australian Citizen requires a visa to enter Australia. No visa, no entry. This especially applies to tourist visa applications. And Australian tourist visas, because many believe they are easy and quick, are the preferred choice of those dishonest and non-genuine visa applicants who intend to overstay in Australia to work illegally on the black market. So if you ARE a genuine visitor visa applicant, you need to prove that you are NOT intending to overstay and breach visa conditions!
Refusal of tourist visa applications to Australia from Thailand and other less-affluent countries is surprisingly common. There are a lot of scams and clever schemes designed to “trick” the Embassy, often sadly encouraged by Thai travel agents or by well-meaning family and friends, or from the various online advice forums and Facebook groups. Fortunately Down Under Visa know all of the urban myths and are familiar with all the dreadful advice about what to say and what visitor visa requirements are supposedly necessary (like “show money”), and we can keep you on the straight-and-narrow path to an honest tourist visa grant.
If you are a genuine visitor, ie. if you want to go to Australia for a short visit for tourism purposes or to visit friends or family, we stand a great chance of getting you a tourist visa from Thailand to Australia.
Note that visitor visas for recreation, holidaying, sightseeing and seeing Australia as a genuine tourist are less common from Thailand due to the costs involved which are often out of reach to the average Thai (which the Embassy Case Officers know only too well). But please ask us, and be assured of an honest appraisal of your case.
Our greatest successes (in fact we have exceptional success rates) are with the Australian Thai couples who meet and fall in love, and want her to visit Australia to enhance their relationship ie. see if she likes Australia and if she will be happy there with her Australian man on a permanent basis and to visit the friends and relatives of the Australian sponsor. If you are a Thai lady or Filipino man in a genuine loving relationship with an Australian, or if you are an Australian who wants their sweetheart from Thailand to visit you, then please use the FREE ASSESSMENT FORM at the top of the page. We have a very high success rate with genuine visa applicants and have had thousands of visa grants over the years, particularly where they have met in person as a sign of their commitment to each other.
Back in the good ol’ days we had very little difficulty in dealing with visa refusals. Clients would come to us after having a try-and-fail tourist visa refusal from an application they did by themselves. We would use our expertise and re-apply for them and usually get a tourist visa grant for them!
Well…..things have changed over the last year or so. Nowadays it’s extremely difficult and sometimes apparently impossible to get a tourist visa grant after a visa application is refused! If you put together a moderately detailed application and it was refused? Very unlikely that even experienced professionals like us to make them change their minds about you!
It’s now very hard to get a tourist visa grant after a tourist visa refusal. Please read CLICK HERE.
Strongest suggestion? If the outcome of this application matters, and you don’t want to be stuck apart for the near and the distant future? Use the experts to manage your tourist visa application professionally, as we do hundreds of times every year.
DISCLAIMER
Information contained in this page is of a general nature. Informative, yes, but not a formula for preparing visa applications and should not be relied on as such. The devil is in the detail, rest assured. Australian migration law is complicated and Departmental decisions are inflexible and often final. Readers and future visa applicants and sponsors are advised to rely on professionals to ensure a happy outcome.
So if you are a genuine visitor from Thailand, especially if you want to spend time with your Australian boyfriend or girlfriend (or an Australian fiancee, fiance or spouse) or even a family member, then we can help you by preparing a visa application which is complete and honest and which meets the Regulations in Australian Migration Law.
We can give you precise visa requirements for an Australian tourist visa that are right for your situation, and we can then check those visa requirements that you send us for correctness. We are thorough and we are absolutely honest. No lies or scams, and no promising a fast visa grant.
Yes, we lodge Australian visa applications online with our business IMMI Account, but that doesn’t make it go faster. No clever schemes to fool the authorities. Our success rate is very high, all without ever telling lies. And what’s more, we won’t take you on as a client unless we believe you will be successful.
Three months is a reasonable request, especially for a first visit.
Then go right ahead. You get what you pay for. A Mercedes costs more than a rusty tricycle too. We have qualifications, business ethics and a great reputation. Most clients think we’re worth the investment.
Myth #1: The universal checklist of requirements for Thai passport holders
“What are my requirements?” is a common request, because many people assume that an Australian tourist visa application is “simple” and that there must be a simple list available. Some of the travel agent sites will give you a “checklist” of what you need, which is quite amateurish. 80%+ of the value of a tourist visa application is in providing sufficient and correct documentation to present your case well. A professional will assess your case and will provide you with a personalised and detailed To-Do List, and will guide you to ensure you get it right.
Myth #2: Booking flights before applying for a tourist visa
The Embassy advise you not to book flights first. So do Down Under Visa. Booking flights, booking hotels, etc before having a visa? A great way to lose a whole lot of money if the visa is refused, or even if it’s granted after your flight date!
Myth #3: Depositing money into a bank account aka “Show Money”
This is a common myth. A popular one amongst scamming Thai females too, I might add! The belief is that if you dump AUD$5,000.00 into a bank account in Thailand first, you can use this as evidence that she is wealthy. This is attempted fraud.
Myth #4: She must be employed or you won’t get an Australian tourist visa
90%+ of successful Down Under Visa tourist visa clients are unemployed. Many have never had a job in their lives, and very few have banks accounts either. It’s never been an issue for us! The issue is that they need to believe the visa applicant is a genuine visitor to Australia, and is of a low-risk of breaching visa conditions (ie overstaying, working illegally etc). They need to believe she will return at the end of the visit, and they also need to see she would be supported financially during her stay in Australia. There are other ways of demonstrating that she is low-risk, and a professional and experienced Registered Migration Agent knows how to do this.
Myth #5: Thais Must have vaccinations
Currently Australia does NOT require any vaccinations for tourist visa holders.
Myth #6: Thais Must have a medical examination
On occasions they will ask for a medical examination. Most of the time they won’t. If they do require a medical examination and/or an xray, they will request this after the visa application has been lodged. There is nothing gained by seeing a private clinic beforehand.
Myth #7: I can decide to apply for a partner visa and remain in Australia
Technically, yes you can. You may do this as long as you don’t have a No Further Stay (Condition 8503) on your visa grant, which stops you applying for other visas inside Australia. However, from a practical point of view a partner visa is a monster-sized application! Plus you will have a wedding to organise. Trying to do all of this in less than 3 months is a great way to mess everything up. Either you run out of time, or you lodge a substandard rush-job partner visa application. Get some professional advice if you want a partner visa!
Myth #8: I want a one year (12 month) tourist visa
Yes, the Department website lists this as an option. And if the applicant is wealthy enough to take a 1 year holiday in Australia, yes maybe it’s a possibility. Otherwise? It’s a good way to get a refusal of your tourist visa application. Get some professional advice, and be realistic with your expectations.
Now, over to you the client (or potential client)! We value our clients opinions, and we believe in keeping all well-informed. What would YOU like to ask about Australian tourist visas? What do YOU think needs a bit more explanation? Ask below, and Jeff Harvie RMA will answer your question for you and for others wondering the same thing.
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Or see the 4 steps below the video for the requirements to obtain an Australian Tourist Visa (AKA Visitor Visa) as a Filipino Citizen with a valid Philippines Passport.
STEP 1: (Starting)
STEP 2: (Prepare Document Requirements)
This step can take a few weeks. This is the real make-or-break of a visa application, and it’s right here where most Australian tourist visa applications go wrong and which lead to visa refusals! Thank goodness you are in the hands of experts who will guide you through every step, and who know what makes a successful visa application.
You just need to follow our guidance and upload documents to the Migration Hub using the convenient upload facility. No need to ask “What are my requirements?”, and no need to commute to our office carrying sackfuls of papers. This can be done in the convenience of your home and in your own time.
STEP 3: (Finalizing Application)
This step can take about 1 week. We will prepare your application forms and your documents and evidence professionally, and we will upload the ready visa application to the Department using the Down Under Visa business “IMMI Account”.
We won’t submit the application until it’s passed our scrutiny and is of a very high standard. Our great success rate and our great reputation depends on this standard. You are as always in safe hands with Down Under Visa.
STEP 4: (Application finalized)
This step can take 2 to 4 weeks, and sometimes faster. Once your tourist visa application is finalised, the Australian Embassy in Bangkok will email us the visa grant notice. That, plus your passport, is all you need! We will email that to you immediately and let you know the good news.
And we will explain to you what you need to do (and what you DON’T need to do!) to ensure that your sweetheart’s trip to Australia goes smoothly.
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Want to read more about Australian Tourist Visas from the Philippines? Check out some of our tourist visa BLOG posts below.
Australian Tourist Visa from Philippines for Filipino Relatives
How To Get a Tourist Visa to Australia From Philippines?
Tourist Visas When You Wish To Marry
Australia requires visas to enter, and that applies to everyone except those who are Australian Citizens. Everyone else needs a visa. It’s not something that’s aimed especially at third-world nations. English people from Great Britain also require visas to visit Great Australia. So do Americans. It’s not just levelled at the Philippines. Granted, yes they can apply for Electronic Travel Authorities (ETA’s) rather than standard Tourist Visas like a Filipino has to apply for, but they are still visas and they can still be refused. Take some recent cases of white supremacists and gun-totin’ rap “singers” who were excluded. That’s right! Visa applications refused!
Low-risk countries versus high-risk countries
There are countries which are considered low-risk, such as the US, the UK, Canada, most of Europe, Scandinavia, and rich Asian countries like Japan and Korea. These countries allow Electronic Travel Authorities and will have arrangements where their citizens can apply for Working Holiday Visas (ie backpacker visas). And these are reasonably easy to get. ETA’s are ordered online, and take a few days.
But note that they are still visas. They can still be refused, and yes they do. NZ Citizens are issued Subclass 444 Special Category Visas when they arrive in Australia, however if they are undesirable biker types, they can also be excluded.
But those countries which are considered high-risk, they are not able to apply for those easier visas and yes, they are subject to higher levels of scrutiny due to the risk.
Our success rate is considerably higher than that of clients who lodge their own visa applications, so I suspect we’re actually doing our job right. And that means we’re doing our jobs correctly, so why should we start asking for less evidence that proves your visa application is genuine?
The case officers don’t know you. They get one application after another across their desks. Thousands and thousands of them. And some of these will be from ill-intentioned people who only wish to lie their way across Australia’s borders and to take advantage of the opportunity to make lots of money on the black market. Fabulous opportunity, and it all starts with a dodgy visa application. And those applications go across the same desks and are seen by the same department and embassy case officers as those who look at yours.
If they are not utterly convinced that yours is a genuine application, they will refuse it. That’s how the rules work. They’re required to refuse the visa application if they are not convinced. So if the application is full of holes and gaps and not enough to convince them that you both have the purest of intentions, then they MUST refuse it.
At Down Under Visa, we know exactly what the Department and the Embassy like seeing in applications. How do we know? We know from experience of thousands of applications and noting when they ask for further information, we have a very clear picture of what makes up a great application. Therefore we make sure we ask for what they want to see. The end result is to see a very high number of visa grants, and that’s what this is all about after all. We don’t ask for photos of your granny, nor do we ask for a certificate from the swimming pool that says you swam 50 metres. We only ask for what is necessary to prove to a stranger in an office that another stranger has a good and believable reason to visit Australia. Nothing else.
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I am about to resign from my job and now the effective date is on October 12, should I still put my employment on the tourist visa form or should I just put it as unemployed?Thank you.
It depends on when the application is lodged. It should be truthful.