Australian Visa Interview for International Students: Difficult or Easy?

Normally, the Australian visa interview round will take place at any time after applying for an Australian visa and completing the medical examination and fingerprinting procedures. However, to save time, you can arrange a medical examination before applying for an Australian visa. An IDP is ready to walk you through the information-filling processes and the location of the medical examination accepted by the Australian consulate. You must remember to provide the receiving staff with your Health Assessment Portal Identify Number (HAP ID) at the time you apply for your visa.

Not all applications are interviewed, so you can get an Australian visa without going through one of these most stressful and anxious rounds. The date and time of the interview will not be announced in advance, you should always open your phone and prepare a calm and ready mind during the period when the interview may take place.

Currently, all interviews for students applying for Australian visas for study abroad purposes are conducted by telephone and by staff of the Australian Visa and Visa Office, in Vietnamese. In addition, IDP will guide students to interview carefully before applying for a visa so that they can answer with confidence. Therefore, you should not be too stressed!

Normally, the person applying for a student visa will be the one who will be called for an interview, but in some cases where international students are younger than 18 years old, the student's parent or guardian will be the person contacted by the Visa Office.

The interview time usually lasts from 15-30 minutes. For some special cases, the interview time can last more than 1 hour.

The questions during the interview will mostly revolve around the following contents:

- Information about schools, courses in Australia, and study plans: this is one of the topics that every student encounters in an interview. The interviewer will ask you questions about the school, and courses and may even ask you a list of subjects that you will be studying in Australia. In addition, the interviewer will also ask more questions from why you chose the school and field of study to why you chose that city and Australia.

- Housing, part-time work, and student life information in Australia: To make sure that students/parents understand where they or their children will be going, the environment in which they will live in Australia, many questions about part-time jobs, transportation in Australia, meals, and student accommodation are also often asked by the interview staff. You should do your research carefully first, as this is also one of the scoring questions for your Australian visa application.

- The process of studying in Vietnam: for these questions, you and your parents should pay attention because the interviewer may ask you about the name of the school, class, academic ability to even the homeroom teacher or your favorite subject. Therefore, parents should pay special attention to this part, because many parents have not been able to answer questions about their children's learning abilities and learning interests

- Proof of family finances: along with questions about information about study plans in Australia, questions about the family's financial ability will be asked by the Australian visa interviewer. The content of the questions will revolve around the family's income, assets, and accumulations to support their children's learning process in Australia. You and your parents should be careful because these questions will be asked very carefully by the staff and require us to answer them in detail

- The last and decisive factor of the interview is the development plan after graduation. You need to clearly show your intention to return to your home country to work and develop your career, rather than plans to stay in Australia to work even now. According to the 485 visa policy, international students after graduation are allowed to stay for 2-5 years depending on the level of study and region. In addition, you also need to show your ties in Vietnam to prove more clearly to the Consulate about your ability to return to your home country.

- As mentioned above, not all Australian visa applications need to be interviewed, so please prepare a complete, detailed, coherent, and confidential application.

- Practice answering the mock interview questions provided by IDP about your school, major, accommodation, travel, or part-time job in Australia, as well as your family's financial credentials, etc. v.. As the interview will be recorded for the purpose of serving the Australian visa process for your application, you should answer the questions coherently, slowly, calmly, and confidently, so that the interviewer will show that you are well prepared.

- Always open your phone and be prepared, because turning it off and avoiding all calls is not a good idea while waiting for the visa result.

Wish you all pass the interview round calmly and confidently!

Above is the sharing of IDP's experience in interviewing for an Australian student visa. Hopefully, with these experiences, you will be able to somewhat reduce the pressure, as well as be more skillful in conquering an Australian visa and soon get a passport to this beautiful country.

With information about the visa application process when studying in Australia, you can refer to and prepare all visa application documents in the easiest way. If you want to save time and increase the rate of applying for an Australian student visa, contact the consultant team at IDP immediately for advice on the process of applying for an Australian student visa and interview with an Australian visa success rate of up to 95%

You can also participate in free study abroad seminars organized by IDP, the consultants will help you choose a school, choose the right major and course, and search for scholarships to study in Australia with a value of up to 100%. You can also actively find out information about the school by experiencing the IDP Live application only at IDP with the Fastlane feature, which supports finding the right course, and quickly knowing the results of admission documents with the time shortened by 2-3 times.

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