You must pay an application fee when you apply to become an approved provider. The application fee assists with recovering the costs associated with processing and assessing an application.
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You need to pay the fee each time you apply. This includes when you apply for re-approval.
The fee won’t be refunded if your application is unsuccessful. However, if the delegate does not consider your application we will refund the fee.
The delegate is not required to consider your application if:
- the approved application form is not used
- all the required information is not provided
- the application fee is not paid.
Paying the application fee
You’ll get an invoice for the application fee from us after you apply for approval, and we conduct a completeness check that your application has all evidence and key documents specified in the Application Form [part 7].
Application fees are due for payment 14 days from the date of issue of the invoice.
We may not assess an application if the application fee is not paid.
The current application fee is $5,110.
Legislation: Act S 4, VET Student Loans (Approved Course Provider Application Fee) Determination 2017