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Heath Requirements for Australian Student Visa

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Australia is very careful about the health conditions of the visa applicants willing to come to Australia on long term basis.

 

The purpose of the health requirement is to:

  • protect the Australian community from public health and safety risks, in particular active tuberculosis

  • contain public expenditure on health and community services, including social security benefits, allowances and pensions

  • safeguard the access of Australian citizens and permanent residents to health care and community services in short supply.

  • Most visa applicants, and in some circumstances their dependents (whether they are migrating to Australia or not), are required to meet the health requirement.

 

To meet the health requirement you must be free from a disease or condition that is:

  • considered to be a threat to public health or a danger to the Australian     community

  • likely to result in significant health care and community service costs to the Australian community

  • likely to require health care and community services that would prejudice the access of Australian citizens and permanent residents to those services in short supply.

 

In some circumstances to meet the health requirement you may be asked to sign a Health Undertaking by a Medical Officer of the Commonwealth (MOC). For example, if you are assessed as having a condition or disease that requires a follow up medical examination after arriving in Australia you will need to sign a Health Undertaking before being considered to have met the health requirement.

Most applicants for visas to Australia need to meet Australia’s health requirement in order to be granted a visa. You might be required to complete immigration health examinations in order to show that you meet Australia’s health requirement.The health examination and following immigration health assessment process can take several weeks to be completed. To avoid delays, you can complete your health examinations before lodging your visa application by using My Health Declarations.

 

Health examinations outside Australia

 

If you are applying for a visa while outside Australia you must arrange your health examinations with a panel physician. A panel physician is a doctor or a radiologist who has been appointed by the Australian Government to perform medical examinations on applicants for Australian visas outside Australia.

 

Panel physicians in many countries are now able to process your health examinations online using our eMedical system – this means that your health results can be processed online, often in minutes, instead of four to six weeks. 

In some countries, you must use electronic health processing. If you are booking an appointment with an eMedical enabled clinic, you must provide a health identifier such as a HAP ID, HRI or TRN. This number will be: (a)indicated on the health examinations referral letter that you can download when lodging an online visa application or using the My Health Declarations service

(b) provided to you by your case officer after you have lodged a paper visa application.

 

Where possible, complete your medical history information online before you visit the panel clinic. Medical history information must be recorded before your immigration health examinations start, as the panel physician will take this information into account when conducting your medical examination.

 

If you have lodged an online visa application, you will be asked to complete your medical history information online when you organise your health examinations.

If you have lodged a paper visa application, you can complete your medical history information using the eMedical Client service. You will need to enter your personal details and your HAP ID. This will need to be done for each applicant on this application. You will also be asked to consent to using the eMedical system at this time.

 

For Pakistan, please see below the authorised medical examination centres for Australia:

 

 

Islamabad

Medical and Radiology Clinic – Electronic Health Processing  IOM Islamabad Sub OfficeHouse 14, Street 84,G-6/4 Islamabad Telephone:  +92 51 111 466 472, +92 306 292 2575 , +92 307 537 1776 Email: AUSMEDPK@iom.int

Medical and Radiology Clinic – Electronic Health Processing  Aziz Medical CenterMedical and Radiology ClinicHouse number 1Street number 16, F 6/3IslamabadTelephone: +92 51 287 3191, +92 51 287 3192, +92 311 223 3444, +92 333 511 8472Email: info@amcpk.comHours: Monday to Friday 9.30 am to 4.30 pmWebsite:www.amcpk.comwww.amcpk.orgDoctor(s):Dr Ahmed Raza JanDr Tooba Toor

 

Karachi

Medical and Radiology Clinic – Electronic Health Processing  IOM Karachi Sub OfficeHouse F-8/1, KDA Scheme ITipu Sultan Road (adjacent to Karsaz Road)Karachi Telephone: +92 51 111 466 472, +92 306 292 2575, +92 307 537 1776Fax: +92 21 3454 9848Email: AUSMEDPK@iom.int

 

Lahore

Medical and Radiology Clinic – Electronic Health Processing  IOM Lahore Sub Office1 Ali blockNew Garden TownLahoreTelephone:  +92 51 111 466 472, +92 306 292 2575, +92 307 537 1776Email: AUSMEDPK@iom.int

 

 

The whose medication examination process can be understood with the help of a diagram. Please click here to download it in PDF format.

 

 

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