Help for international students in Australia: choosing a course, applications, student visa, OSHC, arrival and pathways after study. Qualified advisers in Brisbane. Book now.
If you’re an international student, or about to become one, you’re juggling a lot at once: picking a course, getting your application in, sorting a student visa, arranging health cover, and working out how you’ll actually live once you arrive. BYD Education & Immigration Consultants helps international students in Australia handle all of it in one place, with a qualified education agent counsellor (QEAC O920) for the study side and a registered migration agent (MARN 1794201) for the visa side.
We’re based at Eight Mile Plains in Brisbane and work with students across the city, the Gold Coast and beyond, in person and online. Here’s everything you need, in the order you’ll need it.
This is the decision everything else hangs on, so it’s worth getting right. The best course for you depends on your goals, your academic background, your budget, and what you want to do after you finish. Picking on price alone, or copying a friend, is how students end up stuck in the wrong program.
We look at the whole picture and give you honest options, including pathway programs if your entry qualifications need a stepping stone. There’s more on how we do this on the Course Selection & Enrolment page.
Once you’ve chosen a direction, we prepare and lodge your applications to the institutions, keep track of offers and deadlines, and help you accept the right one. We then guide you through meeting your offer conditions and getting a Confirmation of Enrolment (CoE), which is the document you need before a student visa can be granted.
Most international students studying full-time need a Student visa (subclass 500). To get it, you’ll generally need:
A confirmed enrolment (your CoE) from a registered course.
To meet the Genuine Student requirement, showing your main reason for coming is to study.
Overseas Student Health Cover (OSHC) for the length of your stay.
Enough funds to cover tuition, living costs and travel.
English at the level your course requires.
Because our education and migration advice sit together, your course choice and your visa are planned as one, not as two separate problems handed between two businesses.
OSHC is health insurance you’re required to hold for the whole time you’re on a student visa. It’s not optional, and the department checks it. We help you arrange appropriate cover for the right period so it’s one less thing to trip over. Our OSHC Guide explains how it works in plain terms.
Landing in a new country is exciting and a bit overwhelming. There are practical things to sort in your first weeks: somewhere to live, a bank account, a phone plan, a tax file number if you’ll work, public transport, and finding your way around campus. Brisbane and the Gold Coast both have large, established international-student communities, so you won’t be doing it alone.
We point you toward the right steps and the support services your institution provides, so the basics are handled and you can focus on your studies.
Student visa holders can usually work a limited number of hours while their course is running, and more during scheduled breaks. That income helps with living costs, but there are conditions attached, and the cap can change. We’ll confirm the current limit with you so you stay within your visa conditions, because breaching them can put your visa at risk.
A lot of international students want to know what comes next, and planning it early makes a real difference. The right course can lead to a Temporary Graduate visa (485), which lets eligible graduates stay and work for a period after finishing. Graduate work experience can then feed into skilled migration for those aiming at permanent residency.
None of that is automatic, and course choices you make today can help or hurt those options later. Because we do both education and migration, we map that journey with you from the beginning.
We help you choose a course and institution that fit your goals and budget.
We manage your applications and enrolment through to your CoE.
We prepare your student visa and Genuine Student evidence.
We arrange your OSHC and guide you on funds and English requirements.
We help you settle in and plan the graduate and migration pathway, so study today supports your future here.
Student visa holders can usually work a capped number of hours while their course is in session, and more during scheduled breaks. The cap changes from time to time, so we’ll confirm the current limit for your situation so you stay within your visa conditions.
You’ll need to cover tuition, living costs and travel, and show access to sufficient funds for the visa. The exact figure depends on your course and city, and we’ll give you a clear estimate for your circumstances.
Yes. Overseas Student Health Cover (OSHC) is mandatory for student visa holders and must cover your whole stay. We help you arrange it. See our OSHC Guide.
In many cases you can include family members, such as a partner or children, in your student visa application. There are extra requirements and costs, and we’ll talk you through them.
It’s the requirement to show that your main reason for coming to Australia is to study. You demonstrate it through your study plan, background and circumstances. Weak evidence here is a common reason student visas are refused, so it’s worth getting right.
Possibly. Many graduates are eligible for a Temporary Graduate visa (485), and that experience can support a skilled migration application later. It isn’t automatic, so planning your course with the end goal in mind matters.
Yes. Whether you want to change course, move up to a higher qualification, extend your visa, or plan a graduate or skilled visa, we help students already here as well as those applying from overseas.
Yes. We work with international students across the Gold Coast, Logan, Ipswich and Toowoomba, in person at Eight Mile Plains or fully online, so where you’re studying isn’t a barrier.
It depends on your course and provider, and sometimes on your visa. We’ll tell you the requirement for the courses you’re considering and, if needed, point you to a pathway that builds your English first.
