Second Working Holiday Visa

To be eligible for a second Working Holiday visa, you must meet a number of requirements.

General requirements:

• have completed three months of seasonal work in regional Australia while on your first Working Holiday visa
• be aged between 18 and 30 years (inclusive) at the time of applying
• if applying from outside Australia, be applying no more than 12 months before you intend to travel to Australia
• not have any dependant children
• hold a passport for a country or region participating in the Working Holiday Maker programme

Seasonal Work: the definition of seasonal work has recently been extended to include tasks in more primary industries such as:

• plant and animal cultivation
• • the harvesting and/or packing of fruit and vegetable crops
  • pruning and trimming vines and trees
  • general maintenance crop work
  • cultivating or propagating plants, fungi or their products or parts
  • immediate processing of plant products
  • maintaining animals for the purpose of selling them or their bodily produce, including natural increase
  • immediate processing of animal products including shearing, butchery, packing and tanning
  • manufacturing dairy produce from raw material
• fishing and pearling
• • conducting operations relating directly to taking or catching fish and other aquatic species
  • conducting operations relating directly to taking or culturing pearls or pearl shell
• tree farming and felling
• • planting or tending trees in a plantation or forest that are intended to be felled
  • felling trees in a plantation or forest, or
  • transporting trees or parts of trees that were felled in a plantation or forest to the place where they are first to be milled or processed or from which they are to be transported to the place where they are to be milled or processed.

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Regional Australia: anywhere in Australia except Sydney, Newcastle, Wollongong, the NSW Central Coast, Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Perth, Melbourne or the ACT. Any area identified on the Australian JobSearch website as requiring harvest workers will come within the definition of 'regional Australia'.

The postal areas that make up the definition of 'Regional Australia' are detailed in the table below. 

Applications for second working holiday maker visas cannot be made through this site. Applications must be made on-shore in Australia or through the Government website.

Australian Working Holiday visa Assessment