Median wait (P50)—
Home Affairs has not published a current processing time for this stream.
No published time· SUBCLASS 101
Child visa (subclass 101)
Offshore permanent visa for dependent children of Australian citizens, permanent residents or eligible NZ citizens. standard stream.
Processing-time distributionof grants in trailing 3 months
25%
P25
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50%
P50
—
75%
P75
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90%
P90
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Category
Family
Stream
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Subclass code
101
How to read these numbers
Home Affairs publishes the actual processing-time distribution for each visa subclass. The 25th percentile shows how fast the quickest quarter of recent grants were finalised; the 90th shows the long tail. The median (50th) is the most useful single number — half of applications take less, half take more. Plan around the 75th or 90th if your travel or work plans cannot tolerate a delay.
Source · immi.homeaffairs.gov.auRefreshed daily