You can be eligible for medicare on a non permanent visa
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You can be eligible for medicare on a non permanent visa
I haven't found anything about this in the threads yet. (maybe I am not looking correctly)
I've just been to the medicare office, and as it stands you can be eligible as an overseas visitor to have medicare. However you'll need to have applied for a permanent residence and have currently a working visa.
If you want to enroll you'll need to present
- The receipt of the fees paid to DIMA for the permanent residence visa
- The letter from DIMA of application for the permanent residence
- All used pages of your passport
- Your current visa either endorsed in the passport or the letter from DIMA
- If applicable: Evidence or a passport of your spouse parent or child in any are austrlian citizens or permanent visa holders.
- If applicable: Proof of your relationship of your spouse parent or child in any are austrlian citizens or permanent visa holders.
All certified copies of course. But medicare staff can certify.
I am still collecting this, my agent has the stuff from DIMA. Has anybode gone through this process already?
I've just been to the medicare office, and as it stands you can be eligible as an overseas visitor to have medicare. However you'll need to have applied for a permanent residence and have currently a working visa.
If you want to enroll you'll need to present
- The receipt of the fees paid to DIMA for the permanent residence visa
- The letter from DIMA of application for the permanent residence
- All used pages of your passport
- Your current visa either endorsed in the passport or the letter from DIMA
- If applicable: Evidence or a passport of your spouse parent or child in any are austrlian citizens or permanent visa holders.
- If applicable: Proof of your relationship of your spouse parent or child in any are austrlian citizens or permanent visa holders.
All certified copies of course. But medicare staff can certify.
I am still collecting this, my agent has the stuff from DIMA. Has anybode gone through this process already?
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Re: You can be eligible for medicare on a non permanent visa
We are only on a 457 visa and haven't applied for permanent residency yet (due to the slooowwww MAP not being implemented yet) - went to medicare office just this week and got a medicare card - only had to show passports with the visa - my OH didn't even have to be with me. It doesn't give us full entitlements but can still get cheaper prescriptions etc
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Re: You can be eligible for medicare on a non permanent visa
Yes - it is quite straightforward. I was on a student visa and applied for an 886. All I had to show them was my passport and the visa application (email as I applied online) together with the usual docs they are supposed to require to show proof of address. You get it initially for 12 months and then they will extend it for another 12 months if your visa has not been decided by that time.
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Re: You can be eligible for medicare on a non permanent visa
Didn't even have to show proof of address, no forms etc - only passports which have the temporary visa on them. Got medicare cards valid for 4 years which is the expiry on our visas.
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Re: You can be eligible for medicare on a non permanent visa
I haven't found anything about this in the threads yet. (maybe I am not looking correctly)
I've just been to the medicare office, and as it stands you can be eligible as an overseas visitor to have medicare. However you'll need to have applied for a permanent residence and have currently a working visa.
If you want to enroll you'll need to present
- The receipt of the fees paid to DIMA for the permanent residence visa
- The letter from DIMA of application for the permanent residence
- All used pages of your passport
- Your current visa either endorsed in the passport or the letter from DIMA
- If applicable: Evidence or a passport of your spouse parent or child in any are austrlian citizens or permanent visa holders.
- If applicable: Proof of your relationship of your spouse parent or child in any are austrlian citizens or permanent visa holders.
All certified copies of course. But medicare staff can certify.
I am still collecting this, my agent has the stuff from DIMA. Has anybode gone through this process already?
I've just been to the medicare office, and as it stands you can be eligible as an overseas visitor to have medicare. However you'll need to have applied for a permanent residence and have currently a working visa.
If you want to enroll you'll need to present
- The receipt of the fees paid to DIMA for the permanent residence visa
- The letter from DIMA of application for the permanent residence
- All used pages of your passport
- Your current visa either endorsed in the passport or the letter from DIMA
- If applicable: Evidence or a passport of your spouse parent or child in any are austrlian citizens or permanent visa holders.
- If applicable: Proof of your relationship of your spouse parent or child in any are austrlian citizens or permanent visa holders.
All certified copies of course. But medicare staff can certify.
I am still collecting this, my agent has the stuff from DIMA. Has anybode gone through this process already?
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Re: You can be eligible for medicare on a non permanent visa
Same. I have a 5 yr visa and got a 1 yr card no questions asked. "NECESSARY CARE ONLY". It ran out a while back and I havent bothered renewing it.
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Re: You can be eligible for medicare on a non permanent visa
She gave me it for the remainder of the visa. Necessary care only seems to be exactly the same entitlement as everyone else.
Buzzy
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Re: You can be eligible for medicare on a non permanent visa
Oliver, I seem to remember you are on the 461. If so, you can get medicare for the life of the visa, not just 1 year. The first time I applied I was given medicare for 1 year, when I went to renew the lady at medicare was surprised that her colleague a year earlier had only given me a year......
She gave me it for the remainder of the visa. Necessary care only seems to be exactly the same entitlement as everyone else.
Buzzy
She gave me it for the remainder of the visa. Necessary care only seems to be exactly the same entitlement as everyone else.
Buzzy
went to renew our cards after a year, and the girl behind the counter renewed them for another 3 year. (the remaining period on our 457) We have reciprocal care, and so far, we have only paid out for prescriptions. everything else has so far been covered.
Oliver, I would suggest renewing your card, just in case. Ours where a few weeks out of date, and the girl was fine, but I got the impression that if its longer, they might be different about it.
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Re: You can be eligible for medicare on a non permanent visa
Where they are from is irrelevant.
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Re: You can be eligible for medicare on a non permanent visa
Not picking fault with the original post, but merely saying that it might need a bit more clarification - especially for the non-British expats whoi now use BE.
As we all know from posts on here, experiences of registering with Medicare vary greatly from office to office, and even the ID that the OP required seems to be OTT compared to some. I have sen people in the past posting that they are accepted when all they produce is the passport and the PR application receipt.
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Re: You can be eligible for medicare on a non permanent visa
Oliver, I seem to remember you are on the 461. If so, you can get medicare for the life of the visa, not just 1 year. The first time I applied I was given medicare for 1 year, when I went to renew the lady at medicare was surprised that her colleague a year earlier had only given me a year......
She gave me it for the remainder of the visa. Necessary care only seems to be exactly the same entitlement as everyone else.
Buzzy
She gave me it for the remainder of the visa. Necessary care only seems to be exactly the same entitlement as everyone else.
Buzzy
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Re: You can be eligible for medicare on a non permanent visa
Hi everyone
looking fro some help if poss.
We arrived on the gold coast on Monday (457 visa) and have brought a car however in order to obtain our Queensland driving licences need a number of Ids (i.e. rental agreement - got, e457 visa email (not sure if this will suffice), bank cards will take a week which is too long) etc.
My question is on a 457 (we havent applied for PR yet), can we still obtain a medicare card (for Id purposes)? (to then in turn help us get our driving licenses for the CRN)
Regards
Sean
looking fro some help if poss.
We arrived on the gold coast on Monday (457 visa) and have brought a car however in order to obtain our Queensland driving licences need a number of Ids (i.e. rental agreement - got, e457 visa email (not sure if this will suffice), bank cards will take a week which is too long) etc.
My question is on a 457 (we havent applied for PR yet), can we still obtain a medicare card (for Id purposes)? (to then in turn help us get our driving licenses for the CRN)
Regards
Sean