Business & Investment Visas

This visa is for business owners and investors who want to establish a business, or invest, in South Australia.

This visa offers applicants the choice of four streams:

1. Business Innovation stream: Business owners who want to relocate their overseas business or establish a new business in South Australia.
2. Investor stream: Successful investors or business owners willing to invest a minimum AUD $1,500,000 in South Australia for four years. 
3. Significant Investor stream: People willing to benefit South Australia and invest $5 million into a complying investment for four years 
4. Entrepreneur stream: People who have support from a selected Service Provider to undertake a complying entrepreneurial activity that is proposed to lead to either the commercialisation of a product or service in South Australia or the development of a business in South Australia.

This visa is for business owners and investors who already hold a four-year provisional 188 visa aligned to the visa stream you originally applied for: 

1. Business Innovation stream: Business owners who want to relocate their overseas business or establish a new business in South Australia.
2. Investor stream: Successful investors or business owners willing to invest a minimum AUD $1,500,000 in South Australia for four years. 
3. Significant Investor stream: People willing to benefit South Australia and invest $5 million into a complying investment for four years. 
4. Entrepreneur stream: Have continued to operate your business in South Australia and meet the obligations to maintain your nomination status.

This visa is for business owners and entrepreneurs and offers a choice of two streams: 

1. Significant Business History: High level business owners who want to undertake significant business activity providing either, employment, exports or high level investment. The 132 Significant Business History visa has a Department of Home Affairs review after two years.
2. Venture Capital Entrepreneurs: People who have obtained at least AUD$1 million in agreed funding from an Australian venture capital firm, which is also an AVCAL member, to develop an innovation to a commercial stage. 

To qualify for South Australian nomination, you must ensure you meet and fulfil the Significant Business History Requirements prior to commencing your application for a subclass 132 visa. 

This visa is for business owners already holding on of the following South Australian state-sponsored visas: 

• Business Owner provisional subclass 163 visa
• Senior Executive provisional subclass 164 visa
• Investor provisional subclass 165 visa

To be eligible to apply for the subclass 893 visa, applicants must hold a valid South Australian state-nominated subclass 165 visa.

To be eligible to apply for the Investor Retirement Renewal visa (subclass 405), applicants must already hold a valid Investor Retirement visa (Subclass 405) as nominated by the South Australian Government. This visa is not available for new applicants.