Once you submit your application, you will need to provide as many evidence as you can to support all the claims you made in your application. Your case officer will advise what documents you need to submit and give you a deadline. You can always ask for an extension of deadline with proper reasoning. If you fail to collect any document for valid reason, you need to contact your case officer. You need to show that you have tried your best to collect that document and that the failure is not due to your fault. If you manage to prove your point, your case officer may accept your position, but not guaranteed.
For health requirements and police clearance, I always recommend to wait until they ask for those. The reason is sometimes the process takes much time and those documents have some validity period. So you might end up doing those again in case they expires by the time you are asked to provide.
So, by the time your case officer is assigned, you can start collecting some documents that's almost certain that you need to provide. Please note that the requirement varies case to case and the list is not a comprehensive one (it never can be).
- Form 80: You need to download the form from the website and fill it up. A huge amount of information is required, hence you can start filling it up.
- Form 1221
- Scan of all applicant's passport information page
- Scan of all applicant's birth certificate and National ID (if available)
- Scan of your English competency test result. You also need to submit the same for other applicants' unless you want to pay extra fees
- Scan of your assessment result
- Relationship certificates if you included any secondary applicant
- Evidence of your employment. The document list includes but not limited to
- Reference/experience letter in company letterhead
- Payslips/salary statements
- Bank statements of your salary account
- Academic certificates and transcripts
- Name change documents (if applicable)
- Affidavit
- Newspaper advertisement
- NAATI accreditation (if you claimed points for credential community language)
- Evidence of studying and living in regional Australia (if you claimed points for)
- Utility Bills
- Rental Agreements
- Academic transcripts identifying the campus
- Documents for partner's skill (if you claimed points for)
- Skill assessment for your partner's nominated occupation
- Partner's English competency test result
- Health and Police clearance should be arranged when asked.