Your current circumstances
Explain your current residence, family and community context, employment and economic circumstances.
Study in Australia for UK applicants
Student visa subclass 500.
Build the application around a CRICOS registered course and provider, a valid Confirmation of Enrolment, Genuine Student responses and supporting evidence. Check the current English evidence rules rather than assuming a UK passport is an exemption.
Core evidenceCoECourse, provider and enrolment
The Student visa process
Ten steps from course selection to ImmiAccount.
A CoE confirms enrolment evidence. It does not guarantee that a Student visa will be granted.
Select a CRICOS registered course and provider
Use CRICOS to confirm the intended course and education provider are registered for overseas students.
Meet the provider's admission requirements
Review academic, English and course entry requirements before accepting an offer.
Receive an offer
Read course details, conditions and enrolment instructions in the provider's offer.
Complete enrolment requirements
Complete the provider steps required before a Confirmation of Enrolment can be issued.
Obtain the Confirmation of Enrolment
Prepare the CoE for each intended course as required by the application instructions.
Arrange Overseas Student Health Cover
Arrange OSHC for the required period or confirm the exemption category that applies to you.
Prepare English and financial evidence
Provide the evidence required by the current Student visa instructions and your circumstances.
Prepare Genuine Student responses
Answer the GS questions in English using real circumstances and supporting documents.
Lodge through ImmiAccount
Submit the subclass 500 application online with identity and supporting documents.
Complete additional requests
Respond to any health, character, biometrics or document request that applies to the application.
Genuine Student requirement
Write the application from your actual circumstances.
The GS requirement is assessed through your current circumstances, proposed study and supporting evidence. Future skilled migration intentions do not automatically count against an applicant, but the responses must be truthful.
Why this course and provider
Connect the course and provider to your previous study, work history and stated academic or professional plans.
Understanding the proposed study
Show that you have researched course structure, location, study expectations and the provider's offer.
Value of the course
Describe the knowledge or qualification sought and its relationship to future employment prospects.
Previous education
Set out qualifications, dates and institutions, including any change in academic direction.
Current employment
Describe your role, employer, duties and career position using matching evidence.
Economic circumstances
Explain who will fund tuition and living costs, the source of funds and available evidence.
Immigration history
Disclose relevant travel, visa applications, refusals or cancellations with supporting documents.
Do not copy a model answer or create facts that are not part of your circumstances. GS responses should be written in your own words and supported by evidence.
After an Australian qualification
Study is not a guarantee of permanent residence.
A later skilled or employer sponsored application depends on the visa criteria in force at that time, including occupation, skills assessment, English evidence, registration, employment, nomination or sponsorship.
Subclass 485 may be relevant
Consider the Temporary Graduate visa only as a post study immigration option. Eligibility depends on the relevant stream and current requirements.
Occupation and assessment
An Australian qualification may support a later case, but the nominated occupation and assessing authority still need review.
SkillSelect or an employer
Possible later options may include SkillSelect, state nomination or employer sponsorship, subject to the criteria available then.
Official sources
Use CRICOS and Home Affairs for the current instructions.
Course registration and visa requirements are separate checks. Read both before committing to an application.
- ProviderRegistered for overseas students
- CoEEvidence of enrolment
- GSReal circumstances and evidence
- OSHCHealth cover for students