Home Affairs forms, filled from the file
Form 956, 956A, 80, 1221 and the rest of the Department's PDF forms, filled from the questionnaire and matter details you already hold. What you get back is the Department's own form, as a PDF you can still edit.
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Pick the forms, get the PDFs
Open Generate DHA Forms on the matter and search by form number, by title or by what you are trying to do: "authorised recipient" finds the 956A. Tick as many forms as the matter needs and generate them together.
The Department's own PDF
The forms are the Department's own PDF forms, not a look-alike. By default the result stays editable, so you can open it in your PDF reader and adjust an answer. Tick "Lock the answers" when you want a flattened copy that cannot be changed.
What is filled, and what never is
Answers come from the client's questionnaire, the matter and contact details, the people on the matter's Applicants tab and your agent profile. Where the file holds no answer, the box is left blank.
Signatures, declaration dates and payment details are never filled in for anyone. On the character questions of Form 80 and the paper application forms, the answers that call for your judgement are left for you to confirm.
Form 956 without the retyping
Your registration number and details come from your agent profile, and you choose the type of assistance when you generate the form. A legal practitioner's form carries their legal practitioner number instead. From the same window, send the form to the client for signature and the signed copy is filed on the matter.
The 37 Department forms in the library
Grouped the way the form picker groups them: by what you are trying to do.
Representation & correspondence
Appoint yourself, name who receives the Department's letters, consent to email
- Form 956Appointment of a registered migration agent, legal practitioner or exempt person
- Form 956AAppointment or withdrawal of an authorised recipient — the person the Department sends documents to (someone other than the appointed agent, often a contact in Australia for an offshore applicant)
- Form 1193Consent for the Department to communicate with the client electronically (email)
Applicant particulars & declarations
Character, history and family-detail forms attached to online applications
- Form 80Personal particulars for assessment including character assessment
- Form 1221Additional personal particulars information
- Form 54Family composition — schedule of family members
- Form 47ADetails of a child or other dependent family member aged 18 years or over (one form per dependant)
- Form 1229Consent to grant an Australian visa to a child under the age of 18 years
- Form 1281Australian values statement — permanent and provisional visas (signed by each applicant aged 18 or over)
- Form 1282Australian values statement — temporary visas (signed by each applicant aged 18 or over)
Changes, corrections & requests
Tell the Department something changed, correct an answer, add an applicant, request a refund
- Form 1022Notification of changes in circumstances
- Form 1023Notification of incorrect answer(s) given in an application
- Form 1436Adding an additional applicant after lodgement — details and payment
- Form 1446Withdrawal of a visa application (section 49 notice, for one or all applicants)
- Form 1447No Further Stay waiver request (conditions 8503, 8534, 8535)
- Form 1424Refund request (visa application charge and other payments)
- Form 1194Certification of Immigration Status — for a Departing Australia Superannuation Payment (DASP) claim
Bridging visas
Paper bridging visa applications
- Form 1005Application for a Bridging visa A, B or C
- Form 1006Application for a Bridging visa B (permission to travel)
- Form 1007Application for a Bridging visa D
- Form 1008Application for a Bridging visa E
Sponsorship & nomination
Forms the Australian sponsor, nominator or guardian completes
- Form 40Sponsorship for migration to Australia (parent, aged dependent relative, remaining relative, carer)
- Form 40CHSponsorship for a child to migrate to Australia (subclasses 101, 102, 117, 445, 802, 837)
- Form 1149Sponsorship for Sponsored Family Visitors (subclass 600 — completed by the Australian sponsor)
- Form 1000Nomination for a National Innovation (subclass 858) visa — completed by the nominator
- Form 1257Undertaking declaration — a nominated adult's undertaking for a child under 18 staying in Australia without a parent
Paper visa applications
Visa applications the Department still accepts only on paper
- Form 47PAApplication for a parent to migrate to Australia — paper lodgement for subclasses 173 and 884 (103, 143, 804 and 864 lodge online since April 2026)
- Form 47CHApplication for migration to Australia by a child (subclasses 101, 102, 117, 445, 802, 837)
- Form 47OFApplication for migration to Australia by other family members (subclasses 114, 115, 116, 835, 836, 838)
- Form 47SVApplication for a Former Resident (subclass 151) visa
- Form 918Application for a subclass 445 (temporary) visa by a dependent child — paper only
- Form 1002Application by a subclass 445 dependent child for a permanent partner visa
- Form 147Application for a New Zealand Citizen Family Relationship (subclass 461) visa
Citizenship
Paper citizenship applications and the identity declaration
- Form 1300tApplication for Australian citizenship — general eligibility
- Form 1290Application for Australian citizenship — other situations
- Form 1272Application for Australian citizenship for children adopted under the Hague Convention or a bilateral arrangement
- Form 1195Identity declaration (citizenship by descent or evidence of Australian citizenship)
Also filled, from the Administrative Review Tribunal: MR5, the appointment of a representative.
Generating a form
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Open the matter
Generate DHA Forms sits on the matter's Overview tab.
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Tick what you need
Search or browse the library by what you are trying to do, and tick one form or several.
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Generate
Each form is filled from the file and downloaded as a PDF.
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Check, sign, lodge
Review the form, collect the signature, and lodge it with the Department yourself.
Good to know
The conditions and limits, so you find them here and not after you have signed up.
- LodgeHQ fills forms. It never lodges anything with the Department: you do.
- A form can only carry what is on the file. Boxes with no answer behind them are left blank for you.
- Form 956, Form 956A and the MR5 need an agent profile with a practitioner who can sign.
- Form 888 is not in the library: it is a declaration the witness completes themselves.
Home Affairs forms: questions agents ask
Are these the official Department forms?
Yes. LodgeHQ fills the Department's own PDF forms, so what you download is the form itself with the answers in place.
Can I edit a form after LodgeHQ fills it?
Yes. By default the PDF stays editable in your PDF reader. If you would rather have a copy that cannot be changed, tick "Lock the answers" before you generate it. Forms sent for signature are always locked.
Can the client sign the form electronically?
Form 956, Form 956A and the tribunal's MR5 can be sent for signature in one click from the same window. For any other form, add the PDF to the matter's documents and send it for signature from there.
Does LodgeHQ lodge the form with the Department?
No. LodgeHQ prepares the form. Lodging it is done by you, in the way the Department requires for that form.
Where do the answers come from?
From the client's questionnaire, the matter and contact details, the people on the Applicants tab and your agent profile. Signatures, declaration dates and payment details are never pre-filled.
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