Department adds credit card fees to visa applications
DIBP (Department of Immigration and Border Protection) has introduced credit card fees effective now.
What it means is this:
Despite how you pay us (Down Under Visa), we pay the Department via credit card. This is how payments are made. They have no bank transfers or EFTPOS systems in place. We pay your Visa Application Charge via credit card, and they will now be imposing a credit card surcharge on those payments.
The surcharge rate is 1.08%. So fortunately it's not that high.
For tourist visa applications, nothing will change. It's too small an amount to collect.
However for other Visa Application Charges such as the $3,085.00 for partner visas and prospective marriage visas, yes we will be passing this on. We have no choice.
So for those who have no paid yet, expect a $33.32 charge on top.
Who are Down Under Visa? Who is Jeff Harvie?
Jeff Harvie and the Down Under Visa team have been doing this for a lot of years! Down Under Visa have brought thousands of couples to Australia from South East Asia over the years. Mostly from the Philippines, but we help increasing numbers of couples where the visa applicant is from China, Thailand, Vietnam or Cambodia. And what this means is we see a lot of success....and we also see failures when people go it alone after talking to their mate, or their relative, or that minimal-care-no-responsibility Facebook group run by Steve and Maribeth based on their own visa application! One application, and they feel qualified to advise others! It's not even LEGAL to do that!
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