Request for your International Movement Records
When you apply for an Australian permanent residence or Australian citizenship, you will be required to provide your travel records for the past 10 years. A lot of visa applicants are unable to provide all of their travel records due to several reasons, such as changing a new passport.
The Department of Home Affairs has launched an online form to streamline the process of requesting International Movement Records (only for the records after 1981). If you need movement records from before 1981 you will need to contact the National Archives of Australia.
How to apply for the international movement records?
- Visit the Department of Home Affairs website https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/help-support/departmental-forms/online-forms/request-international-movement-records
- Fill in the online form
- Attach the required documents
- Submit the application form
- After around 3-4 weeks, the Department of Home Affairs will send you the international movement records through email
What documents are needed to provide for requesting the international movement records?
- Your current photographic valid Identity Document (photo ID). This could be a passport, drivers licence or other government issued photo ID card.
- If you have had another name, you will need to attach proof of your name change.
- To access someone else’s records (where they are not your child under 18 years of age), you will need to provide a signed written consent, the applicant’s valid photo ID and your own valid photo ID.
- To access your child’s movement records (where they are under 18 years of age), you will need to provide the proof of parental responsibility, your child’s valid photo ID and your own valid photo ID.
What information will be included in the movement records?
The movement records will show:
- Your departure and arrival dates in and out of Australia from 1981 to now;
- The period of time that you were inside or outside of Australia;
- How many movements (arrivals and departures) are on record for the period covered by the request;
- Name, date of birth, gender, country of birth;
- Travel document numbers (i.e the passport number used for travel);
- Port codes showing the Australian port of arrival or departure;
- Flight or vessel details, such as flight number;
- Visa subclass and expiry date at the time of travel.
International movement records show your entries and exits from Australia. It will not show which countries you travelled to or from.
