Significant fall in the Visa

Temporary entrants to Australia lowest in three years

A total of 2,029,721 temporary entrants were in Australia at the end of the financial year, the lowest in three years.

Since March 2020 a little over 140,000 temporary entrants have left Australia, compared to around 2.4 million at the end of December 2019.

The number of people on a visitor's visa has gone down significantly.

At the end of the financial year, there were 93,494 people on a visitor's visa in Australia, down from 206,025 in March this year.

Visas continue to be processed during the coronavirus crisis, though some applications may take longer as international shutdowns have made it difficult to source supplementary information like health and character checks," says the department.