# Absorbed person visas

> act-s34 — as in force on 2026-06-04 — C2026C00232 · Compilation No. 171 — https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2026C00232/latest/text

34 Absorbed person visas
          (1) There is a class of permanent visas to remain in, but not re-enter,
              Australia, to be known as absorbed person visas.
          (2) A non-citizen in the migration zone who:
                (a) on 2 April 1984 was in Australia; and
                (b) before that date, had ceased to be an immigrant; and
                (c) on or after that date, has not left Australia, where left
                    Australia has the meaning it had in this Act before
                    1 September 1994; and
                (d) immediately before 1 September 1994, was not a person to
                    whom section 20 of this Act as in force then applied;
              is taken to have been granted an absorbed person visa on
              1 September 1994.










          (3) Subdivisions AA, AB, AC (other than section 68) and AH do not
              apply in relation to absorbed person visas.