Median wait (P50)—
Home Affairs has not published a current processing time for this stream.
No published time· SUBCLASS 155

Five Year Resident Return visa (subclass 155)

Resident Return visa allowing permanent residents to re-enter Australia for up to five years. standard stream.

Processing-time distributionof grants in trailing 3 months
25%
P25
—
50%
P50
—
75%
P75
—
90%
P90
—
Category
Other
Stream
—
Subclass code
155

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.