Australian High Commission
Mauritius
High Commission address: 2nd Floor, Rogers House, 5 President John Kennedy St, Port Louis - Telephone: 202 0160 - Fax: 208 8878

Please note that, depending on your circumstances, you may be requested to provide any of the following additional information:

1. For applicants aged 75 years and over must provide health insurance covering their period of stay in Australia

Visa validity will be for the period of health insurance cover only

The Aged Health Check is valid for 6 months only

2. For all applicants (11 years and older) visiting family members in hospital must provide a radiological examination using Form 160 and undertaken with a panel radiologist in Mauritius

Applicants who are under the age of 11 years and visiting a family member in hospital must undergo a health examination using medical form 26

Pregnant women visiting a family member in hospital must undergo a health examination using medical form 26

3. Pregnant women going for childbirth in Australia must undergo a health examination with a panel doctor using medical Form 26. Hepatitis B test results must also be submitted

Medical forms 26 and 160 may be downloaded from the website ‘www.immi.gov.au’ and the list of panel doctors and radiologists is available from the website ‘www.mauritius.embassy.gov.au’

4. Applicants under the age of 18 years old travelling with one parent and where the whereabouts of the other parent is unknown must provide a Court Order from the Supreme Court of Mauritius authorising the removal of the minor child from Mauritius for travel to Australia

5. For applicants under the age of 18 years old travelling unaccompanied by both parents and visiting a non-relative (eg friends, cousins and others) must have the Australian Federal Police – National Police Check (NPC) Application Form completed by their sponsors and submitted to this office with their visa application

The NPC application form is available on request at the Visa/Immigration Counter or from the website ‘http://www.afp.gov.au/business/national_police_checks.html’

Department of Immigration and Citizenship
Australian High Commission
Port Louis