Visa Fee Calculator 2026

Compare Visa Fees by Country

Visa application costs vary significantly by country and visa category. Tourist visas range from $0 (Japan, for some nationalities) to $185 (USA). Work visas can cost $160 to $1,990+ depending on premium processing. Student visas range from $30 to $1,195 including healthcare surcharges. Use this calculator to compare total fees including government charges, service center fees, biometrics, and optional premium processing for 195+ countries across tourist, work, and student visa categories.

Visa Fees by Country and Visa Category (2026)

Typical visa application fees in USD. Totals include government fees, visa application center charges, biometrics, and premium processing where applicable.

Figures in USD include government and service fees where applicable. Fees change regularly — always confirm on official government websites.

Free Visa Fee Calculator vs Commercial Visa Information Sites

There are three kinds of visa fee information online. Government websites publish the authoritative fee for their own country, but you have to open a different site for every destination and the figure is often buried in a payment page or a fee schedule PDF. Larger commercial visa-information sites aggregate far more countries and visa types, run long editorial guides, and in many cases sell the next step: form filling, appointment booking, insurance or a paid subscription. Independent calculators like this one sit in between: no sign-up, no upsell, and one table you can scan.

The honest trade-off: those bigger sites cover more countries and more categories than this tool, and their editorial teams refresh pages constantly. What this calculator does is keep the comparison narrow and sourced. Every figure comes from an official fee schedule or an embassy price list, each row carries the date it was checked, and government charges, service centre charges and optional premium processing are shown as separate components rather than one blended number. Nothing you enter is stored on a server, so you can model three trips in a row without creating an account. Always confirm the final amount on the official site before you pay.

Visa Fee Calculator Australia: 186, 482 and 485

Australia prices every visa in Australian dollars, per applicant, and the amount is fixed by the subclass rather than by your occupation or passport. The Australia row in the table above is a USD conversion kept for comparison; the charge you actually pay is the AUD figure on the Department of Home Affairs fee schedule at the moment your application is received. If a price change lands between the day you lodge and the day the department receives the application, the new charge applies.

Three employer and graduate subclasses produce most of the searches, and each one splits the bill differently. The table below separates the components so you can see which part is yours and which part belongs to a sponsor.

186 visa fee calculator: employer nomination scheme

The 186 is a permanent employer-sponsored visa with three streams: Direct Entry, Temporary Residence Transition and Labour Agreement. Two payments sit behind it. The employer lodges and pays the nomination, and you pay a visa application charge for yourself plus a charge for each family member included. A nomination refused on sponsorship grounds takes the visa application down with it, and neither payment comes back.

The 186 total moves for four reasons: the stream, the number of applicants, the age of any dependant, and whether an applicant over 18 needs the second instalment for functional English. Health and character checks are billed by the clinic and the police authority rather than by the department, so two applicants from the same country can finish on different totals. This page does not print an Australian dollar figure for the 186, because the department revises the schedule; read the current charge, then add the nomination and the extras.

482 visa fee calculator: Skills in Demand

Subclass 482 now runs as Skills in Demand across three streams: Core Skills, Specialist Skills and Essential Skills. The bill has the same two-sided shape as the 186. The sponsor pays a nomination charge plus a training contribution that scales with annual turnover and the years of sponsorship requested; you pay a visa application charge for every person on the application.

The $435 work figure in the table above is this tool's USD estimate for the Australian work row, and it covers the applicant side only. A family of four sponsored on a four-year nomination pays several multiples of that once dependants, the turnover-based contribution and medicals are added. Ask the sponsor for the nomination receipt before you budget, because the employer's share is missing from most online comparisons.

485 visa fee calculator: Temporary Graduate

The 485 is priced per applicant, not per course. A graduate applying alone pays one charge; adding a partner or a child adds a charge for each of them, and a subsequent entrant who joins later is charged again. The stream decides how long you stay, while the amount you pay follows the subclass and the number of people on the application.

Timing matters more than price on this one. The application window is tied to your course completion date, and the charge is not refunded if the decision goes against you. Work out which stream you qualify for before you pay, because moving later means a second application and a second charge. Grants can take weeks, and a 485 lodged on the last eligible day leaves no room to correct a document the case officer asks for.

Visa Fee Calculator New Zealand: NZD, the NZeTA and the Visitor Levy

New Zealand quotes every fee in NZ dollars, and the New Zealand line in the calculator is a USD comparison figure rather than the amount Immigration New Zealand will invoice. Three routes cover most travellers: the visitor visa for nationalities that need one, the NZeTA for visa-waiver passports, and the student or accredited employer work visa for longer stays. The NZeTA is paid alongside an International Visitor Conservation and Tourism Levy, so the two usually appear as one transaction even though they are separate charges.

What moves a New Zealand total: your nationality, since waiver passports skip the visitor visa entirely; the route you apply under; whether you lodge online or on paper; and whether family members are included. Immigration New Zealand publishes an NZD charge for each route, and the exchange rate on the day you pay sets the USD equivalent. That is why a USD row here can drift from the NZD invoice by a noticeable margin, and why the NZ rows should be treated as a rough comparison only.

Visa Price Calculator: Government Fee versus What You Actually Pay

A quote that names only the government charge is incomplete. The table below lists the lines that appear on a real application, who bills each one, and whether it can be avoided.

A visa price calculator that stops at the first row will under-quote a UK student by more than the application charge itself, because the health surcharge is charged per year of permission. On a US student route the SEVIS fee is separate from the consular fee and is paid before the interview. Those two mechanics are why the totals above are built as government charge plus extras instead of one blended number you cannot audit.

Student Visa Fee Calculator: Australia, UK, Canada and the USA

Student totals are the hardest to compare across countries, because two of the four big destinations fold a health or registration charge into the headline and two do not.

All four rows share one feature: the charge is per person. A spouse or child joining a student in Australia or the UK is charged separately, and on the UK route the dependant pays the health surcharge at the same annual rate as the student. Budget the family total, not the headline.

Proof of funds is not a fee. Canada and Australia both require you to show money you keep, and applicants regularly treat that balance as part of the cost of the visa. It is not spent on the application, but it does have to sit in the account for the period the case officer expects, which is a cash-flow cost even when it is not a charge.

UK Visa Fee Calculator 2025: Why the 2025 Rates No Longer Match

Pages that still quote 2025 UK fees are one or two revisions behind. The Home Office adjusts visa charges periodically rather than on a fixed calendar date, and the Immigration Health Surcharge is set by a separate instrument, so an application charge and a surcharge lifted from the same 2025 article can both be stale in different ways.

UK charges are set in pounds, which is why the UK rows here are USD conversions: $138 for a Standard Visitor, $1,920 for a Skilled Worker with the surcharge, $1,195 for a Student with the surcharge. On work and study routes the surcharge is the larger half of the bill and it scales with the years granted, so a three-year sponsorship costs more than a one-year one before any application fee is paid. Priority services, the biometric appointment and any dependant sit on top.

Before you pay, open the gov.uk fee page for the exact route and check the surcharge against the length of permission on your application. If you were charged the surcharge twice for an overlapping period, the refund route runs separately from the application and has its own evidence requirements.

Is This Visa Fee Calculator Accurate Enough to Budget With?

For budgeting, yes. For paying, no, and the difference is worth being blunt about. Every figure here is an estimate built from published schedules, converted to USD and rounded. The invoice you receive will be in the destination's own currency, at the rate on the day, for the subclass named on your grant or refusal letter.

Three things sit outside the numbers entirely. If your occupation is not on the relevant list, or the sponsor is not approved, you are not eligible for the subclass at any price. If the application is refused, the application charge is not refunded and in most countries neither is the service centre fee. And if the documents show a gap, an unexplained earlier refusal, a balance that appeared two days before lodging, a work reference that does not match the tax record, the money is spent before the weakness is even read.

Step by step: what to do next

1. Step 1, confirm the subclass. Match your situation to a subclass code before you look at any price. A 485 and a 482 are not interchangeable, and the charge follows the code.
2. Step 2, find the payer. Mark which charges belong to an employer or sponsor and which are yours. On the 186 and 482 the nomination sits with the employer.
3. Step 3, count applicants. Add every family member who will be on the application, including a child born during processing.
4. Step 4, add the extras you will actually be charged. Medicals, police certificates, biometrics, health surcharge, SEVIS, translations and courier.
5. Step 5, verify before paying. Open the official fee schedule for your route on the day of payment and keep the receipt with the rest of your documents.

Related reading: the Australia visa guide, the New Zealand visa guide, the student visa guide, and the Australia points calculator for the eligibility side of the same decision.

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