Health requirements
All applicants are required to meet health criteria. Depending on your circumstances, you
may need to undertake a medical examination, which may include a chest x-ray, HIV, Hepatitis B and/or Hepatitis C tests.
All required health examinations must be completed before a decision can be made on your visa application.
If you need a medical examination, the cost is not included in the visa application charge (fee) you pay when you lodge your application.
Health examination requirements are outlined on Form 1163i.
See: Health Requirements
Note: If you are applying from in or outside Australia, the required health examinations are outlined under the heading 'Stay of greater than 3 months, up to and including 12 months'.*
*Trial health arrangements were introduced in May 2008 for people applying for a second Working Holiday visa. Under this trial arrangement, the health examinations that you are required to undertake are assessed in the same way as if you were applying for the first Working Holiday visa (that is: on the basis of a stay for up to 12 months).
If you lodge your second Working Holiday visa application online, you will receive health advice from the eVisa system. Please disregard this message as the department will advise you within 48 hours of the health examinations required under this trial arrangement to ensure that you do not undertake any unnecessary examinations.