Documents for your Work and Holiday Australia (subclass 462)

If you are going to apply for the Work and Holiday visa of Australia (subclass 462), Here’s what you need to prepare and why. Read it all before you start gathering documents: this way you’ll do it only once and properly.

The request is submitted online and from outside Australia.

Upload each document to the corresponding subfolder in your Drive folder, in PDF format and with a well-named title. A useful example of a name: Passport_NameSurname.pdf.

Before you start: Do you meet the requirements?

For the first Work and Holiday (462) you need to:

• To have Between 18 and 30 years old, Both of them included.
• To have passport of a qualifying country.
• Request it from outside Australia.
• Do not bring children under your care along.
• Request it yourselfYou cannot include family members in the same application.
• Not having entered Australia before with a 462 or 417 visa. If you already entered with a 462, you are in the second category of the Work and Holiday visa.
• Complying with the requirements of health and from good character.

1. Passport

It must be valid and cover your entire stay. View the full data page, legible and without cuts.

If you have dual citizenship, send us both passports: it is not always advisable to apply with the same one.

2. Studies

You must prove your level of education. What is required depends on your passport:

Add the title and, if you have it, the transcript or certificate of grades.

3. Certificate of English

You need to provide proof Functional English (Functional English). The requirement is the same for Spain, Chile and Argentina: IELTS 4.5.

These alternatives are also accepted for exams taken from the August 7, 2025:

• PTE Academic: 24 global points.
• TOEFL iBT: 26 total points.
• LANGUAGECERT Academic: 38 global points.

4. Proof of funds

You have to prove that you can support yourself in Australia and leave the country at the end. Home Affairs puts the figure at around AUD 5,000 for the start of your stay, plus your onward ticket.

The usual is a recent bank statement in your name.

5. Return ticket or funds to pay for it

You can prove it with the ticket for the departure already purchased or by showing that you have enough money to buy it. That money goes apart of the AUD 5,000 in maintenance.

Be careful about the previous advice: do not buy the ticket until you have the visa granted.

6. Medical insurance

For the 462nd It is not mandatory present it, but Home Affairs recommends it explicitlyIn Australia you are responsible for all your medical expenses, and an emergency without insurance can cost you thousands of dollars.

We can get you a discount from the insurance companies we work with.

7. Passport-style photo

• Card size.
• Less than 6 months of antiquity.
• Color and good quality. They do not accept photocopies.
• Full face, light and smooth background.

You can wear untinted prescription glasses. If you wear a veil or head covering for religious reasons, just make sure your face is visible.

8. Additional documents

Anything that does not fit into the above and you believe it could support your application. If you are unsure, please submit it anyway and we will evaluate it.

What you can do with this visa

• Stay 12 months.
• Work to pay for the trip.
• Study for up to 4 months.
• Enter and exit Australia as many times as you want.
• To do 3 months of specified work in order to be able to apply for the second Work and Holiday visa.

Cost of the visa: AUD 840.