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Protection Visas

This is general information from the Department of Home Affairs’ own pages, not advice about your visa.

In Australia, only a registered migration agent or an Australian legal practitioner can lawfully charge you for immigration assistance. You can check an agent on the Register of Migration Agents.

What the law charges for a Protection visa

Schedule 1 of the Migration Regulations sets the charge for a Protection visa application. This site prints it exactly, on a ruler that runs to $8,000 and is the same on every site in its family.

The price in the lawMigration Regulations 1994, Schedule 1, item 1401

Protection (Class XA)

First instalment, “payable at the time the application is made”

  • Base application charge
    $50
  • Additional applicant charge for an applicant who is at least 18
    Nil
  • Additional applicant charge for an applicant who is less than 18
    Nil

Second instalment, “payable before grant of visa”

  • Second instalment
    Nil

Every site in this family draws its charges on this one ruler, $0 to $8,000.

Anyone else who asks to be paid

In Australia, only RMAs and legal practitioners can lawfully charge you for immigration assistance.

Home Affairs, Using a migration agent

Any provider of immigration assistance who: tells you they can fast track your Australian visa, tells you they can guarantee an Australian visa, is lying and may be trying to scam you.

Home Affairs, Using a migration agent

Even if someone recommends a migration agent to you, always check the Register of migration agents to make sure the person is a registered migration agent.

OMARA, Step by step

Free legal advice and help with your Protection visa application is available

Free legal help, on the Department’s pageHome Affairs, Protection visa (subclass 866), Help with your visa Search the Register of Migration Agents

Why print the price

A visa application charge is not set by whoever takes the payment. It is written into Schedule 1 of the Migration Regulations, item by item.

The receipt above copies item 1401 as the compilation of 2 October 2026 prints it. Its stub carries the Department’s own words, and a link to the public register kept under the Migration Act.

In the Department’s words

Where the words come from

Every figure on the receipt is copied from the Regulations, and every sentence in quotation marks from the page named beneath it. Charges change, usually each July, and instruments made under the Regulations decide some of who pays which line; the links open the versions in force today.