17/08/2025
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ℹ️ ARTICLE: 'The 2025 Pacific Engagement Visa is open — how did it go in 2024?'
Authors: Natasha Turia & Stephen Howes
🔗 https://devpolicy.org/the-2025-pacific-engagement-visa-is-open-how-did-it-go-in-2024-20250818/
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📌Updated FACTSHEET:
🔗 https://devpolicy.org/pacific-engagement-visa-factsheet-2025/
📌Ballot registration
📌Open from 28 July to 25 August 2025.
📌Family members (partner and legally dependent children) can be included in the application.
📌Primary applicants must be aged 18 to 45, be a citizen of one of the participating PEV countries (Fiji, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Nauru, Palau, PNG, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Tonga and Vanuatu) and have been born in or had a parent born in one of these countries or Australia or New Zealand.
📌The primary applicant needs a passport; other family members don’t.
📌Applications are made online via the Australian Department of Home Affairs’ ImmiAccount and can be made from anywhere in the world. You also need multi-factor authentication (MFA) as an additional verification step.
📌Ballot fee A$25 (whether or not family are included) to be paid online (for example, by credit card).
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🔎The Pacific Engagement Visa Support Service has a website at 🔗 https://www.pev.gov.au/
Follow the Pacific Engagement Visa page for further updates.
🔗 https://www.facebook.com/PacificEngagementVisa
🔎The Australian Department of Home Affairs website contains full details on the PEV visa and the PEV ballot.
🔎Go to this page to get the link to register in the ballot:
🔗 https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-listing/pacific-engagement/ballot-registration/how-to-register
🔎You can hear an explanation of the 2025 ballot process on this recent Devpolicy Talks podcast.
🔗 https://devpolicy.org/the-2025-pacific-engagement-visa-is-open-how-did-it-go-in-2024-20250818/
The Pacific Engagement Visa is a new permanent residence visa for eligible citizens of participating countries across the Pacific and Timor-Leste.