Sports Visa For Australia
If you are the kind of person that loves sports, a sports visa can help you come play and watch your favorite sport in Australia. With this visa you can also bring your family and enjoy the outdoors when not training. This is the ideal choice for amateur athletes as well as elite athletes, with multiple Australian Sports Commission grants being awarded to help athletes investing in their training and development.
No matter where you are in the world, everyone loves watching sports live. The true experience comes not just by watching your favorite team play on TV, but also to actually be inside the stadium. Unfortunately, this is harder to do if you do not have a visa for Australia as getting one is not always easy.
Due to the massive growth of the international sporting world, coupled with the expanding and more diverse environment that exists today. More and more nations are raising the bar on their commitment to sport. This includes everything from growing numbers of multi-millionaires who are joining teams to an increasing number of people taking up sports for a living and even just for fun. The end result is a lot more players both domestic and foreign competing in all levels of competition, meaning there is a huge demand for visas.
Sports Visa For Australia
Are you interested in sports but are reluctant to stay in Australia because of its high cost of living? If your answer is yes and you are eager to discover a new world, then this is the best time for you to settle down in Australia.
Subclass 408 – Temporary Activity Visa Sporting Activities stream allows sportsperson, elite level trainees and adjudicators to come to Australia for up to 2 years to play, coach, instruct or adjudicate for an Australian sporting team or organisation or engage in high-level sports training. With this visa, you can:
- Take part in a structured sports training program at the national or international level
- Play for, coach instruct or adjudicate for an Australian sporting team or sporting organisation for a season
- Travel to and from Australia as many times as you want while your visa is valid
- Include members of the family unit in your application
To be eligible for this visa:
- Have a sponsor or supporter
- You must not work outside of the contracted sporting activity
- Take part in full-time structured sports training aimed at achieving a high performance outcome with an internationally recognised sports training organisation (only if applying as a sports trainee)
- Meet health and character
- Have adequate health insurance
Sponsorship test
The sponsor must be a relevant ‘sporting organisation’ and must apply to be an approved temporary activities sponsor. Applicants for this visa need a sponsor if they apply in Australia or apply outside of Australia and intend to stay in Australia for more than 3 months. The sponsor must:
- Be an approved sponsor
- Agree in writing to sponsor the visa applicant and members of their family unit who intend to travel with them
- Not withdraw that agreement
Support test
The supporter must be a relevant ‘sporting organisation’ and must pass the support test. Applicant’s for this visa do not need a supporter if they apply outside Australia and intend to stay in Australia for less than 3 months. To be a supporter, you do not need to submit an application.
To meet the support test, supporter must provide a letter of support on an organisation’s letterhead and must identity:
- The visa applicant and any family members who intend to travel with them
- The work and the applicant will take do
- What the applicant’s activities will be
- When and where the applicant will be engaged
What is a sporting organisation?
For the purpose of this visa, sporting organisation can be an Australian organisation, government agency or foreign government agency that administers or promotes sport or sporting events.
If the organisation is supporting a spots trainee, the organisation:
- Must have an international reputation for training elite sportspeople or adjudicators
- Can’t be a sporting cub that primarily competes below the Australian national level for the sport
Book a consultation for a commitment free briefing with our Registered Migration Agents in Melbourne to find more about your visa options.
- Temporary Activity visa (subclass 408)
- Temporary Work (Short Stay Specialist) visa (subclass 400)
- Temporary Work (International Relations) visa (subclass 403)
- Training visa (subclass 407)
- Australia’s subclass 400 vs 482 TSS visa
