Health Requirements

Australian Embassy

Russian Federation

Embassy address: 10A/2 Podkolokolny Pereulok, 109028 Moscow - Telephone: 956 6070 - Fax: 956 6170

All visa applicants must meet Australia’s health requirements. If you need to undergo a medical examination in order to meet these requirements, the visa office will advise you.

Approved Panel Doctors

All medical examinations and chest x-rays for Australian visas MUST be undertaken with an approved Panel Doctor. All Panel Doctors have the forms for Australian visa medical tests available at their clinics. The panel doctor will charge you directly for the examination and will send the reports directly to this office.

See: Panel Doctors

Who needs a medical examination?

Temporary Entry

You may be asked to undergo a medical and/or x-ray examination:

If you are applying for a stay of greater than three months
If you are likely to enter a hospital or health care area (including nursing homes)
If you are likely to enter a classroom situation for more than twelve weeks
If there are indications that you may not meet the health requirement.

All student visa applicants require a medical examination.

See: Health Requirement for Temporary Entry to Australia

If you are aged 75 years or more, you must undergo a medical examination to determine that you are medically fit to make the return trip to Australia. You must also provide evidence of medical insurance covering the whole period of your proposed stay in Australia. Please take the attached pro forma to a panel doctor to complete.

See: Aged Visitor Health Check Proforma

Permanent Entry

All applicants for permanent entry to Australia must do a medical examination with an approved panel doctor. Each family member over 11 years of age will also need to do a chest x-ray. Non-migrating children under 18 years of age are also required to undergo medical examinations.

See: Health Requirement for Permanent Entry to Australia

Medical Examinations Without Embassy Referral

If you know that you will be required to undergo a medical examination in order to meet the health requirement, you may undertake a medical examination with an approved Panel Doctor before we have referred you.

The fees that Panel Doctors charge are not refundable. If you choose to undergo a medical examination without us referring you to, you do so at your own risk.

Medical results have a limited validity. Normally, validity is twelve months from the date of clearance. However, depending on the health of the applicant, the validity may sometimes be shorter.

July 2011