Tourists will pay $40 more ($190 overall), a backpacking visa will cost $130 more ($640 overall), and students will pay $65 more ($715 overall).

There’ll also be a 40 percentage point increase for business innovation and investment visas.

The government says the changes will raise more than $100 million each year, which will fund improvements to the visa processing system.

Learn more tomorrow morning at 9AM (Sydney time), where Immigration Lawyer, Arnela Tolic, presents a 1 hour, 1 CPD/CLE online training event, titled “Immigration system change of the century – 1st July 2023 (TSMIT, Students, Citizenship for sc444 holders, etc)“. 

Book here: https://legaltrainingaustralia.com/webinar-cpd/

Source: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/why-it-will-soon-cost-you-more-to-leave-australia/ip0p7bmwq and

https://www.sbs.com.au/language/punjabi/en/podcast-episode/budget-2023-24-impact-on-skilled-migrants-international-students-and-tourists/uyqdlq61c