Student guardian visa conditions

The following list describes the conditions that will generally be attached to your Student Guardian visa.

• You must not work.
• You must not study for more than three months.
• You must maintain your approved overseas visitor health cover.
• You cannot apply for any other Australian visa while in Australia except for:
• an extension of your Student Guardian visa, or
• to engage Australia's obligations under the 1951 UN convention relating to the status of refugees.
• You must continue to meet the requirements for a Student Guardian visa.
• You must live with the student who has nominated you and, if the student is under 18 years of age, provide appropriate accommodation, welfare and general support.
• You must not leave Australia without either:
• taking the nominating student with you, or
• notifying the department before your departure that you have made appropriate arrangements for the student’s accommodation, welfare and general support in your absence and (if the student is under 18 years of age) obtaining written approval for the changed arrangements from the student’s education provider.

Different conditions apply to dependent children who are granted a Student Guardian visa.