The Department of Home Affairs in Australia is responsible to ensure all visitors and temporary visa holders remain in Australia lawfully and bridging visas allow them to enforce a high degree of compliance by temporary residents. There are multiple bridging visa options and details of the ones used more frequently by the temporary residents are given below. It is also important to understand that a bridging visa is not a substantive visa and, in most cases, inherits the visa conditions that were imposed on the last substantive visa held.
A bridging visa ceases, with the sole exception of a BVB, when the holder departs Australia or the corresponding application for a substantive visa or a judicial review is finalised favourably.
