Showing posts with label Investor visa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Investor visa. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Australia Business innovation and investment (provisional) visa (Subclass 188)


The provisional business visa is for the people, those who wanted to start anew business in Australia or planning to invest in a business already running in Australia. This visa enables to invest in the state or territory in Australia for a limited period or a permanent investment. Your business proposal can be accepted after you submit the plans and investments to the state or territory of Australia. The person has to be nominated by the ministry and the department of immigration and border control will send an invitation to the person to visit and invest in Australia.

An expression of Interest has to be submitted and consequently it has to be accepted by the state to territory before it sends an invitation to the person.  Through skill select procedure the business person will be selected to get an invitation. Under the Business visa program the provisional visa has three streams namely
1. Business innovation stream,

 2. Investor stream,

  3. Significant investor stream  

Business innovation stream enables the person to start a new business or to invest in an existing business and earn profits out of it. Under this program there is no minimum investment limit fixed by the government of Australia.


Under the Investor stream the business person has to invest a minimum of at least 1.5 Million AUD in a business whether it is new or existing.

Under the Significant Investor Stream the visa can be earned by investing at least AUD 5 million in the country. It may be a new start-up or an existing business in Australia. This visa is the basic requirement to apply for the Business innovation and investment (permanent) visa (subclass 888).    The permanent visa enabled the person to get a permanent residency in Australia.

The Business innovation and investment (provisional) visa (subclass 188) needs expression of interest and also needs extensive supporting documents. The business visa enables the visa holder to travel in and out as many times as he wants. The visa holder can bring his family members to Australia to stay and live with him till the validity ends.

But since the visa enable the visa holder to apply for a permanent visa under the scheme subclass 888 and the permanent visa allow the visa holder to settle in Australia permanently. After receiving invitation from the state of territory, the applicant should submit all the necessary documents within 60 days of time.

A valid passport is required to apply for the visa and if you are applying for a new passport, it is better to apply for the visa after getting the new passport from your home country. So you can avoid any time lapse on the rules and regulations on time limits specified. 


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