Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00115:reg:32:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00115
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 32 (pt 3/9)
Character Range: 222868–225495

must complete an approved form in accordance with any directions on it.
 (4) An application for a visa that is made using an approved form is not a valid application if the applicant does not set out his or her residential address:
 (a) in the form; or
 (b) in a separate document that accompanies the application.
 (5) If an item of Schedule 1 prescribes criteria or requirements by reference to a legislative instrument made under this subregulation, the Minister may, by legislative instrument, specify any of the following matters for the purposes of such a criterion or requirement:
 (a) an approved form for making an application for a visa of a specified class;
 (b) the way in which an application for a visa of a specified class must be made;
 (c) the place at which an application for a visa of a specified class must be made;
 (d) any other matter.
Note 1: For paragraph (b), examples of the way in which an application must be made include by the internet, orally, or by posting, faxing or emailing the application to a specified number or address.
Note 2: Regulation 2.10 sets out where an application for a visa must be made if no location for making the application is prescribed in relation to the visa in Schedule 1.
 (6) The legislative instrument may specify different matters for:
 (a) different kinds of visa (however described); and
 (b) different classes of applicant.

2.07A  Certain applications not valid bridging visa applications
  An application for a substantive visa made on a form mentioned in subitem 1301(1), 1303(1) or 1305(1) of Schedule 1 is not a valid application for a Bridging A (Class WA), Bridging C (Class WC) or Bridging E (Class WE) visa in either of the following circumstances:
 (a) the applicant was not in Australia when the application for the substantive visa was made;
 (b) the substantive visa is a visa of a kind that can only be granted if the applicant is outside Australia.
Note: Other provisions relating to the making of applications for bridging visas are regulations 2.10A, 2.10B and 2.20A.

2.07AA  Applications for certain visitor visas
 (2) Despite anything in regulation 2.07, for sections 45 and 46 of the Act, an application for a Subclass 600 (Visitor) visa in the Business Visitor stream is taken to have been validly made if:
 (a) the applicant is:
 (i) the holder of a valid passport issued by a designated APEC economy; or
 (ii) in the case of an applicant who is a permanent resident of Hong Kong—the holder of any valid passport; and
 (b) the applicant:
 (i) has applied to the Government of the designated APEC economy for an APEC Business Travel Card