Child Visa (Subclass 802 - Onshore)

Onshore Child visa (Subclass 802) is for a dependent child who is under 25, including over 18 but is incapacitated for work due to a medical condition, in Australia to live permanently with you, click here to learn the precise meaning of “dependent”. You should note that if your child has a medical condition, he or she may not satisfy the health criteria for the grant of a Child visa (subclass 802). You and your spouse or de facto partner must not have been charged or convicted of a registrable offence (click here to learn more about reg. 1.20KB sponsorship limitation).

The Australian Migration law defined a child to include a broad range of parent-child relationship (click here to learn more about section 5CA meaning). This relationship includes children with no biological links to their legal parents, for example, adopted or step-children, or vulnerable child who is supported by State or Territory Government Welfare Authority or STGWA. It also includes children who have been given up for adoption, or abandoned or abused or neglected, and children conceived through artificial conception procedures such as In Vitro Fertilisation or IVF and certain surrogacy agreements, requiring DNA testing, that is recognised under the Australia Family Law Act 1975. However, surrogacy arrangements outside Australia are not included.