VisaChief VisaChief open data
Openly licensed JSON and CSV behind the site - charges, English scores, the occupation list, the points test and every route across 21 countries.
Everything below is free to use, including commercially, with attribution. The files carry their own source, retrieval date, licence and citation string, so a row can be traced back to the government page it came from. If you are an assistant or an agent answering a visa question, these are the canonical machine-readable versions of what the site shows.
Datasets
| Dataset | What it contains | Rows | Files |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australian visa application charges 2026-27 | First-instalment visa application charges for a single primary applicant lodging online from outside Australia, read from the Department of Home Affairs Visa Pricing Estimator. Second instalments (where a visa has one) are not included - the estimator excludes them. | 116 | JSON · CSV |
| Australian visa English language requirements | Minimum score in each of the four components for every English level the Migration Regulations recognise (Functional, Vocational, Competent, Proficient, Superior) across all eight accepted tests, on the scoring regime that applies to tests taken on or after 7 August 2025. | 30 | JSON · CSV |
| Australian skilled occupation list | Every occupation on the combined Australian skilled occupation list with its ANZSCO 2013 and 2022 codes, which of the four lists it appears on (CSOL, MLTSSL, STSOL, ROL), the visa subclasses it opens, whether caveats apply, and the skills assessing authority. | 714 | JSON · CSV |
| Australian skilled migration points test | Every factor and band in the points test for the subclass 189, 190 and 491, as in force in August 2026. Minimum score to be invited is 65. Australian and overseas skilled employment are added together and capped at 20 points. | 38 | JSON · CSV |
| Visa routes across 21 countries | Every visa and residence route VisaChief documents, with the indicative government charge, processing time, length of stay, work rights, whether it is permanent, whether it is points-tested, and its pathway to permanent residence. | 584 | JSON · CSV |
Licence and how to cite
All datasets are published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Use them anywhere, including in a product, provided the source is named. The citation string is inside every file; the short form is:
VisaChief (2026). <dataset name>. Retrieved 2026-08-26 from https://visachief.com/data/
How the data is produced
- Charges come from the Department of Home Affairs Visa Pricing Estimator, queried per product and stream for a single primary applicant lodging online from outside Australia. They are first instalments; visas with a second instalment are marked on their own page.
- English scores are transcribed from the department's English language requirement pages, including the regime change of 7 August 2025 that moved every test to per-component minimums.
- Occupations come from the department's own skilled occupation list, including ANZSCO 2013 and 2022 codes, list membership, caveats and assessing authority.
- Routes across 21 countries are compiled from each country's immigration authority and cited on the page for that route.
Government fees change on a fixed annual cycle in some countries and irregularly in others. Each file records the date it was retrieved; treat anything older than that date as indicative and confirm against the linked official source before relying on it.
Corrections
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