The visa subclasses to be entirely processed at the Australian Consulate-General in Ho Chi Minh City are:

Citizenship by Descent applications

101 - Child
102 - Adoption
114 - Aged Dependent Relative
115 - Remaining Relative
116 - Carer
117 - Orphan Relative
155 - Five Year Resident Return
157 - Three Month Resident Return
300 - Prospective Marriage
309 - Partner (Provisional)
418 - Educational
419 - Visiting Academic
421 - Sport
427 - Domestic Worker (Temporaryl) - Executive
428 - Religious Worker
445 - Dependent Child
461 - New Zealand Citizen Family Relationship
570 - Independent ELICOS Sector
571 - School Sector
572 - Vocational Education Sector
573 - Higher Education Sector
574 - Postgraduate Research Sector
575 - Non-Award Sector
576 - AusAID or Defence Sector
580 - Student Guardian

Business (Short Stay) Visa Applications

Please note that from 1st April 2012, ALL Subclass 456 (Business (Short Stay)) visa applications lodged at AVAC Ho Chi Minh City will now be processed at the Australian Embassy in Hanoi.

NOTE: Tourist, Medical Treatment (Visitor) and Transit visa applications are not affected by the changes.

Validity of Visa Applications

Please note that applications are not considered to be valid applications until the day they are received at the processing office. For most applications lodged at an AVAC, this will be the next working day.

However, if you lodge a visa application at an AVAC after 12pm and the application needs to be transferred to a processing office in a different city, it will not be received at the processing office until the second following working day.

For most visa applications lodged outside Australia, it is a requirement that the applicant be outside Australia at the time an application is received by the processing office.