Personal Import Help

[r34_skyline]

Hey, I'm reading through the importing document on DOTAR, and I'm confused by this particular sentence. I don't know whether it's referring to Vistors coming into Aus with no form of PR, citizenship or Australians with citizenship visiting another country with a temporary visa. I'll be heading off to Japan to study abroad for a whole year and want to bring a Supra back with me. I've bolded the section in question.

5.5. Personal Imports – Part 10 on Application Form

The following are not eligible to import a vehicle under the personal import scheme.

visitors temporary residents foreign diplomatic personnel companies corporations

To be eligible for a personal import the following criteria must be satisfied:

a. the vehicle has been owned and used by the applicant for a continuous period of at least 12

months (3 months where ownership and use of the vehicle commenced before 8 May 2000);

b. at the time the vehicle is imported, the applicant is:

i. an Australian citizen or an Australian permanent resident; or

ii. a person who has applied to become an Australian citizen or an Australian

permanent resident;

c. the applicant is of an age that entitles him or her to hold a licence or a permit to drive a road

vehicle of that type;

d. the applicant undertakes to comply with any requirements as to road safety that are imposed

in respect of the vehicle by the Administrator; and

e. the applicant has not imported a road vehicle owned by him/her within the year ending on the

day on which the vehicle in respect of which the application is made is landed in Australia. If

an applicant has imported a vehicle under any other provisions in that time, approval will not

be granted.

[Iron Chef]

Email me and I'll explain - short answer is yes, you can get a personal import.

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