Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00115:clause:2_2:p34
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00115
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 2 cl 2 (pt 34/37)
Character Range: 2341092–2343851

Business Skills (Residence) (Class DF) visa.
893.2—Primary criteria
Note: The primary criteria must be satisfied by at least 1 member of a family unit. The other members of the family unit who are applicants for a visa of this subclass need satisfy only the secondary criteria.
893.21—Criteria to be satisfied at time of application

893.211
  Neither the applicant nor his or her spouse or de facto partner (if any) has a history of involvement in business or investment activities that are of a nature that is not generally acceptable in Australia.

893.212
  The applicant has been resident, as the holder of a Subclass 165 (State/Territory Sponsored Investor (Provisional)) visa, in the State or Territory in which the appropriate regional authority that sponsors the applicant is located for a total of at least 2 years in the 4 years immediately before the application is made.

893.213
  The applicant genuinely has a realistic commitment, after the grant of a Subclass 893 visa, to continue to maintain business or investment activity in Australia.
893.22—Criteria to be satisfied at time of decision

893.221
  The applicant continues to satisfy the criteria in clauses 893.211 and 893.213.

893.222
 (1) The applicant is sponsored by an appropriate regional authority.
 (2) Form 949 is signed by an officer of the authority who is authorised to sign a sponsorship of that kind.

893.223
  The designated investment made by the applicant for the purpose of satisfying a requirement for the grant of a Subclass 165 (State/Territory Sponsored Investor (Provisional)) visa has been held continuously in the name of the applicant, or in the names of the applicant and his or her spouse or de facto partner together, for at least 4 years.

893.224
  The applicant:
 (a) satisfies public interest criteria 4001, 4002, 4003, 4004, 4007, 4009, 4010, 4020 and 4021; and
 (b) if the applicant had turned 18 at the time of application—satisfies public interest criterion 4019.

893.225
 (1) Each member of the family unit of the applicant who is an applicant for a Subclass 893 visa is a person who:
 (a) satisfies public interest criteria 4001, 4002, 4003, 4004, 4009, 4010 and 4020; and
 (b) if the person had turned 18 at the time of application—satisfies public interest criterion 4019.
 (2) Each member of the family unit of the applicant who is not an applicant for a Subclass 893 visa satisfies public interest criteria 4001, 4002, 4003, 4004 and 4020.
 (3) Each member of the family unit of the applicant who, at the time of the applicant's application, was not the holder of a Subclass 165 (State/Territory Sponsored Investor (Provisional)) visa satisfies public interest criterion 4005.
 (4) Each member of the family unit of the applicant who, at the