Global Special Humanitarian Program

Immediate family

Your family members may be eligible for a visa under immediate or ‘split’ family provisions of the Global Special Humanitarian Program if:

As a proposer* you must be either an Australian permanent resident or citizen.

An immediate family member is either your spouse or partner or your dependant minor child or children (under the age of 18).

For a child under the age of 18, their immediate family is their parent or parents.

Your relationship must have been declared to Immigration before your visa was granted and the application lodged within 5 years of the date of your visa grant.

*Visa holders who arrived in Australia as unauthorised maritime arrivals on or after 13 August 2012 cannot propose family members under the Special Global Humanitarian Program.

Non-immediate family members

You can apply for other family members under the Global Special Humanitarian Program. To be eligible, the family member must be:

*Visa holders who arrived in Australia as unauthorised maritime arrivals on or after 13 August 2012 cannot propose family members under the Special Global Humanitarian Program.

These applications will not have the same priority as immediate family applications. Compelling reasons must also exist for them to be granted the visa. This means an assessment of:

Lodging an application

Applications can be lodged from an ImmiAccount. The Department of Home Affairs' website includes instructions on how to create an ImmiAccount and manage your application.

For more information and step-by-step instructions on how to apply, see the Department of Home Affairs’ Global Special Humanitarian visa webpage.