• Home
• About us
• Visas and migration
• Travelling to Australia
• Services for Australians
• Doing business with Australia
• Education
• Media
• About Australia
• Relations with the EU
• Relations with Belgium and Luxembourg
• Relations with NATO
• Events
• Culture
• Customs and quarantine
• Science, research, innovation
• Français
• Nederlands

Visas and Immigration

The Australian Embassy in PARIS provides visa services for clients who are residents in Belgium and Luxembourg. The Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) provides the eVisa (electronic visa) option for tourists, business visitors, working holiday makers and students, and also provides information on the skilled migration regional visa.

You can make contact with the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (Migration Branch) and the Australian Embassy in Paris as follows:
- Paris web address: www.france.embassy.gov.au (for local processing procedures).
- Department website: http://www.immi.gov.au  (for application forms and online visas).

Phone enquiries: All telephone enquiries for visa and immigration are to be directed to the Information Service on Australian Visas (ISAV).  This service is available in both French and English languages and is available between 4pm and 11 pm.

Telephone number: +1  905 280 1437 (international call costs apply)

If you have specific enquiries about the Australian visas, please refer to : http://www.immi.gov.au/contacts/forms/europe/occ.

Citizenship

From 1 August 2009 all Australian Citizenship by Descent applications for people who are resident in Belgium & Luxembourg will need to be lodged at the Australian High Commission in LONDON.

For further information about Citizenship by Descent, please refer to: http://www.uk.embassy.gov.au/lhlh/citz_europe.html

For information on how to lodge your application in London, please refer to: http://www.uk.embassy.gov.au

Please note that all payment must be made in Pound Sterling. Information about payment options can be found at: http://www.uk.embassy.gov.au/lhlh/fees.html

If you have specific enquiries, please refer to: http://www.immi.gov.au/contacts/forms/europe/occ

For general information on other citizenship matters, please refer to www.citizenship.gov.au