# Payment of visa application charges, and fees, in foreign currencies

> reg-5.36 — as in force on 2026-06-01 — F2026C00497 · Compilation No. 287 — https://www.legislation.gov.au/F2026C00497/latest/text

5.36 Payment of visa application charges, and fees, in foreign currencies
          (1) Payment of a fee, other than a visa application charge mentioned in
              subregulation (3A), must be made:
                (a) in a place, being Australia or a foreign country, that is specified in a
                    legislative instrument made by the Minister for the purposes of this
                    paragraph; and
               (b) in a currency that is specified for the purposes of this paragraph in a
                    legislative instrument made by the Minister as a currency in which a fee
                    may be paid in that place.
               Note:    For foreign country, see section 2B of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.

        (1A) The amount of the payment is to be worked out as follows:
              (a) if the currency in which the amount is to be paid is specified by the
                  Minister in an instrument in writing for this paragraph, use the exchange
                  rate for the currency specified in the notice;
              (b) if the currency in which the amount is to be paid is not specified in an
                  instrument for paragraph (a), use the formula in subregulation (2).
          (2) The formula is:
                AUD     CER      1.05
               where:
               AUD means the amount of the fee in Australian dollars.
               CER means the highest exchange rate that is lawfully obtainable on a
               commercial basis for the purchase in the foreign country of Australian currency
               with the currency of the foreign country in a period that:
                 (a) begins:
                       (i) on the day when this regulation commences; or
                      (ii) on any subsequent day when that rate increases or decreases by at
                           least 5%; and
                (b) ends at the end of each day before another period begins.
          (3) If the amount worked out by that formula cannot be paid wholly in banknotes of
              that country, the corresponding amount is that amount rounded up to the nearest
              larger amount that is payable wholly in banknotes of that country.
        (3A) A visa application charge payment made in accordance with regulation 2.12JA
             must be made in Australian dollars.
          (4) In this regulation:
               fee means:
                 (a) an instalment of visa application charge; or








                 (b) an amount of visa evidence charge; or
                (ba) an amount of nomination training contribution charge; or
                 (c) a fee payable under these Regulations except regulation 5.41C.