High refusal rates for visitor visas

When statistics speak, it’s important to listen.

Lately, there’s been a notable rising trend in the refusal rates for visitor visas for specific groups:

• Health professionals seeking to come to Australia to sit registration exams have faced obstacles with their tourist visas (SC 600). The Department committed to address this issue with the processing section.
• Provisional Partner visa (SC 309) applicants from high-risk countries being refused visitor visas (SC 600). There’s an idea to use sponsored family visas as an alternative and impose a bond for higher-risk applications in the migration professional community, but the Department reported that it is moving away from bonded stream visas.