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What is the Pacific Engagement visa?

The Pacific Engagement (subclass 192) visa, also known as the PEV, is a new Australian permanent residence visa available for eligible citizens of participating Pacific countries and Timor-Leste.

This visa is part of Australia’s permanent migration program and is aimed at increasing Pacific and Timor-Leste communities in Australia to strengthen our ongoing connections.

There are 3,000 permanent places available annually, inclusive of the main applicant and their partners and/or dependent children. These visa places are made available through a ballot process.

To apply for the Pacific Engagement Visa (subclass 192), you must:

  • First register for the PEV ballot.

  • If you are randomly selected in the ballot, you can then proceed with your visa application.

Please note that to register for the PEV ballot and to apply for the visa, you must not be a citizen of New Zealand.

PEV ballot eligibility requirements

To be eligible to register for the PEV ballot, you must:

  • be aged between 18 and 45 years old (inclusive) when your country's ballot registration opens

  • hold a valid passport for a participating country *

  • be born in, or have a parent born in an eligible country **

  • not be a citizen of New Zealand

  • not already be registered in another country’s PEV ballot

  • be able to pay the AU$25 registration fee

  • Applicants can apply inside or outside of Australia. Applications must be submitted before the ballot closes on August 2, 2024. Check the PEV Country Ballot Status page to see the status of each participating country’s ballot.

* Countries participating in the first PEV ballot include:
  • Federated State of Micronesia
  • Fiji
  • Nauru
  • Palau
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Solomon Islands
  • Timor-Leste
  • Tonga
  • Tuvalu
  • Vanuatu
**Eligible countries where the ballot applicant can either be born in, or have a parent born in:
  • Australia***
  • Federated State of Micronesia
  • Fiji
  • Kiribati
  • Nauru
  • Palau
  • Papua New Guinea
  • New Zealand*
  • Republic of Marshall Islands
  • Samoa
  • Solomon Islands
  • Timor-Leste
  • Tonga
  • Tuvalu
***Some eligible citizens may have been born outside of their country of citizenship to access alternative medical facilities. Australia and New Zealand have been included in this list to recognise this.