Subclass 155 and 157 · charges current from 1 July 2026
Travel Facility & RRV Checker
Add the time you have spent outside Australia and see whether you pass the two-in-five residence test, how long your travel facility has left, and which Resident Return visa you would actually be granted. Free, and no email needed for your result.
Your permanent visa
Your travel facility runs for five years from the day your permanent visa was granted. It is separate from your PR, which does not expire.
On your grant letter, or in VEVO. If you have had an RRV since, use the date that RRV was granted instead.
Leave this blank and the checker uses five years from the grant date, which is the standard facility.
Optional. If you give a date, the checker tells you whether your facility still covers the trip.
Time spent outside Australia
Add every trip away since you got PR. Only the part that falls inside the last five years counts against you.
Short holidays matter as much as long stays, because the test counts days, not trips. Leave a trip blank if you are not sure of the exact dates and add it once you have checked your passport stamps.
Your ties to Australia
These only matter if you fall short of two years. They are what decides between a one-year facility and nothing.
Who needs one
There is no family application. Every permanent resident lodges separately and pays separately.
Count yourself plus every family member who holds PR. Australian citizens do not need one.
Your travel facility runs five years from the grant of your permanent visa. Add that date in step 1 and the countdown starts.
Your two-in-five count
What you would be granted
What it costs
Get your travel facility checked before you book
People find out their facility has lapsed at the airport, or after they have already left. Send us your dates and a registered professional will confirm which visa you need and when to lodge it.
Your dates and result are attached automatically, so you won't need to explain them again.
The rules this checker uses
The travel facility
- A permanent visa carries a five-year travel facility from the day it was granted. A Resident Return visa granted later carries its own facility from its own grant date.
- When the facility expires, your permanent residence does not end. You can stay in Australia indefinitely. What ends is your right to leave and return as a permanent resident.
- This is the most misunderstood part of the whole area. Nothing happens on the expiry date if you are in Australia and stay there.
Subclass 155, five-year facility
- Lawfully present in Australia as a permanent resident or citizen for at least two years out of the last five.
- The two years are cumulative, not continuous. Separate periods add up.
- The window is the five years before you apply, which is why the answer changes as time passes even if you do not travel.
Subclass 155, one-year facility
- For people who cannot meet the two-in-five test but have substantial ties of benefit to Australia, which can be business, employment, cultural or personal.
- Ties that carry weight: current employment with an Australian employer, an operating business with capital actually invested, immediate family who are citizens or permanent residents living in Australia, professional-level cultural or artistic activity.
- Ties that generally do not carry weight on their own: owning property, having lived here in the past, paying Australian tax from overseas, recreational connections.
- The charge is the same as for a five-year facility.
Subclass 157, three-month facility
- For people who cannot qualify under either 155 option, who have spent at least one day in Australia in the last five years as a permanent resident or citizen.
- Requires a compelling and compassionate reason. If you have been outside Australia for more than three continuous months before applying, the reason for that absence must also be compelling.
Charges, from 1 July 2026
| Subclass 155 | $1,475 |
| Subclass 157 | $1,475 |
| Certain Pacific-region passport holders | $505 |
| What the 155 cost before 1 July 2026 | $490 |
The charge roughly tripled. There is no family application: every permanent resident lodges separately, is assessed separately, and pays the full charge. A household of four now pays $5,900 where it would have paid $1,960.
Where you lodge
- You can lodge in or outside Australia. Lodging from overseas restricts your review rights if the application is refused, so lodging before you leave is the safer order.
What this checker does not cover
Your actual movement records
- The Department counts your days from its own movement records, not from what you remember. People are routinely out by weeks. Check your travel history before you rely on a figure here.
- This checker counts the day you left and the day you returned as days away, which is the conservative reading. If you are within a few days of the line, that margin matters and you need advice rather than a tool.
Whether your ties are substantial
- Ticking a box here is not the test. Substantial ties is a judgement made on evidence, and the same facts can be decided differently depending on how they are presented.
- This tool tells you which pathway you are on. It does not predict whether you will succeed on it.
Other things that matter
- Character and health requirements sit outside this tool.
- Time spent in Australia unlawfully, or on a temporary visa before your PR was granted, does not count toward the two years.
- Former citizens and people who have previously had a visa cancelled have their own rules.
- Citizenship is the permanent answer. If you are eligible, it removes the need for an RRV for the rest of your life, and at $1,475 a time that maths changes quickly for a family.
Check these figures yourself
The charge changed on 1 July 2026 and the residence rules are unchanged. Verify the charge before you budget for a household.