australia Travel exemptions

[juzasking 1]

Hi, 

For Australians who had to apply for exemption to travel outside of the country. 

The govt website is quite straight forward on the requirements and suggestions to provide supporting documents. However, I'd love to hear some peoples experience who travelled in the past five months towards gaining an approval. 

 

• How was the response time 
• Things I should be mindful of before submitting my request. 

 

Thanks in advance

[KCTHE1 1]

Hi, I applied and was denied a few weeks ago. I believe it took around 10 days total to get the response. 

 

I had applied as wanting to go to a funeral for an aunt and was advised it didn't fit the immediate family description. I was also only going for a week and I have since been told by travel agency etc that the approvals are mainly given for people who are going longer term, almost the entire 90 days allowed on the ESTA waiver. This could have had an impact also.