Parent Resident Visa expression of interest (EOI) selection process
When you submit your Parent Resident Visa EOI it goes into a ballot. If we select your EOI, we may invite you to apply for residence. Find out how the EOI and application process works.
To apply for a Parent Resident Visa, you must first submit an expression of interest (EOI). If we select your EOI, we may invite you to apply for residence.
We randomly select EOIs every 3 months by ballot. The ballot contains EOIs received from 12 October 2022. The first selection was 8 August 2023.
How the ballot works
- Selections occur in February, May, August and November, and generally take place on the second Tuesday of the relevant month.
- To be included in a selection your EOI must be submitted by the last day of the month before the selection. For example, submit your EOI on or before 31 July to be in an August selection.
- We select enough to reach 2,500 visa approvals each year.
- EOIs in the ballot expire after 2 years.
- You can submit your EOI online or using the paper form.
Note
You can only be included in 1 EOI in the ballot. If your EOI in the ballot pool includes someone already in another ballot pool EOI, we will remove your most recently submitted EOI from the pool and notify you.
What happens when your EOI is selected
- Once EOIs are selected they go through a checking process. Checks generally take around 2 weeks. After we check your EOI you will either be invited to apply for residence or advised if your EOI will be declined.
- We do not contact people whose EOIs are not selected.