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Online visas open to Chinese visitors

Chinese nationals will be able to apply for Australian visitor visas online.

Chinese tourists take in the sites of the Sydney Harbour Bridge

Source: AAP

Chinese visitors to Australia will now be able to apply for visas online.

The service will be available 24/7 and allows people to track the status of their application, the federal government announced on Monday.

More than 840,000 applications from Chinese nationals were made in 2015-16 - a number that's expected to pass one million by next year.


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