This visa is for people who have skills to perform particular activities in Australia in the following categories:

1. Religious Work Stream: 

• This visa lets you do full-time religious work for a religious institution in Australia. 

• Religious work could include:

  providing spiritual leadership

  conducting worship

  teaching or offering guidance on religion

  providing pastoral care

  proselytising

  other high-level specialist work relating to these things

Benefits of this visa:

• Include members of the family unit in your visa application

Stay conditions

• Stay up to 2 years

Travel

• Travel to and from Australia as many times as you want while your visa is valid

2. Other Social and Cultural Activity Stream: 

• Participate in a community-based event for a cultural or social activity such as a sporting, religious, artistic or academic event, or a conference.

You might be:

• an individual sportsperson or member of a sports team, or team support staff such as a manager, medic, coach, referee or official. But you are not eligible for this stream if you have been contracted to play for or coach an Australian team
• a minister conducting religious services or taking part in other religious activities as the guest of an Australian religious institution 
• working at a religious event 
• an academic invited by a tertiary academic institution to lecture, hold workshops or take part in research 
• a public speaker or lecturer
• speaking, presenting or lecturing at a trade fair, expo, exhibition, conference, workshop or seminar 
• an entertainer attending specific promotional events, but not performing 
• an artist making visual art or exhibiting your work 
• an author, presenting your work to an audience at a writers festival 
• a choreographer conducting a dance workshop that includes an unticketed closing performance

Benefits of this visa:

• Include members of the family unit in your visa application

Stay conditions

• Stay up to 2 years

Travel

• Travel to and from Australia as many times as you want while your visa is valid

3. Entertainment Activity  Stream: 

• Work in the entertainment industry in Australia as a performer, production or support staff eg:

       performing in a film or television production subsidised by government

       performing in a film or television production not subsidised by government

       performing other than in film or television

       working in a production role other than as a performer

       working as support staff for an entertainer or group of entertainers

       working as a performer or support staff for a non-profit engagement

       working on a documentary or commercial for an overseas market

Benefits of this visa:

• Include members of the family unit in your visa application

Stay conditions

• Stay up to 2 years

Travel

• Travel to and from Australia as many times as you want while your visa is valid

4. Sporting Activity Stream: 

• Take part in a structured sports training program at the national or international level or play for, coach, instruct or adjudicate for an Australian sporting team or sporting organisation for a season. 

Benefits of this visa:

• Include members of the family unit in your visa application

Stay conditions

• Stay up to 2 years

Travel

• Travel to and from Australia as many times as you want while your visa is valid

5. Research Activities Stream: 

• Observe or take part in a project at a research or tertiary institution in Australia. 

You might be eligible for this activity type if you:

• are an academic/ graduate who has made significant achievements in your field
• are employed, or were employed in the past, as an academic at a tertiary institution
• have been invited to observe or take part in an Australian research project at an Australian tertiary or research institution, usually in collaboration with other academics employed there

Benefits of this visa:

• Include members of the family unit in your visa application

Stay conditions

• Stay up to 2 years

Travel

• Travel to and from Australia as many times as you want while your visa is valid