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Australian student visa and settlement guides.

MyCaseworks owns Australian procedural depth for subclass 500, Genuine Student evidence, financial capacity, Temporary Graduate subclass 485, work conditions, refusals, and NSW renting. Confirm every rule on Home Affairs before you file — fees and evidence lists change.

Procedure map

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Legal owns canonical procedure for each /au/* spoke (Home Affairs sources). Australia has no campus university farm. The regional host owns service intake and settlement logistics; form-level procedure stays on this /au/* library. Both are indexable and cross-linked.

Subclass 500 document checklist

CoE, GS answers, funds, OSHC, English, health, character, and ImmiAccount sequencing.

Genuine Student requirement

How to answer GS questions with course-choice, circumstances, and ties evidence that matches the rest of the file.

Financial capacity

Course fees, living costs, travel, sponsor letters, and common funds-proof failure patterns.

Ministerial Direction 111

How MD111 prioritisation can change processing queues and what applicants should still prove.

Temporary Graduate 485 checklist

Stream fit, Australian study requirement, English, AFP, insurance, and lodgement timing.

English for 500 / 485

Where English evidence differs between Student visa and Temporary Graduate streams.

Student work rights

48 hours per fortnight during study periods, break rules, payslips, and condition-risk records.

Condition 8202

Full-time enrolment, attendance, and progress risks that can breach student visa conditions.

Changing course or provider

When a new CoE or provider transfer needs visa action versus a simple enrolment update.

Health & OSHC

Condition 8501 cover dates, panel physician exams, HAP IDs, and dependant cover gaps.

Refusal: reapply or ART

When to re-file, when ART review is available, and how to rebuild a refused subclass 500 file.

Renting in NSW

Bonds, condition reports, repairs, shared housing, and records that matter in a dispute.

Skilled migration points test

How points are awarded for age, English, work experience, education, and nomination — and EOI strategy for 189 and 190 visas.

Regional visa 491 pathway

How the subclass 491 regional provisional visa works: 15 bonus points, state nomination, regional obligations, and the 191 PR pathway.

Student to PR pathways

How 485, skilled migration, and nomination programs connect after eligible Australian study.

Editorial status · Australia

Who reviews Australia guides

Australia subclass 500 / Temporary Graduate guides on MyCaseworks are currently editorial-only: researched from Home Affairs primary sources and reviewed in-house. A named registered migration agent or Australian lawyer reviewer program is not yet live. Licensed AU professionals can apply to the panel.

Ownership: regional service/intake on au.yousafeconsultancy.com; procedure on this legal /au/* library.

Ownership

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legal.yousafeconsultancy.com/au

Owns form-level and condition-level procedure: subclass 500 evidence, GS, 485 streams, visa conditions, refusal/ART framing, and NSW tenancy rules for students.

au.yousafeconsultancy.com

Owns consultancy services, document-prep intake, and settlement support. Use regional for commercial next steps; come back here for statute-style checklists.

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