By Chang Min Park
Accredited Specialist in Immigration Law · Legal Practitioner Director of Park & Co Lawyers
A second or third Working Holiday visa is where people lose a year by counting the wrong days. The work has to be specified work, in a specified area, for long enough, and the same day cannot be counted twice. Condition 8547 is a different rule again: it limits how long you may work for one employer, and an exemption from specified work does not remove it.
On the Working Holiday page, enter the postcode of the place where the work was done. The page checks that postcode against the official area tables, including bushfire and natural-disaster tables, and it checks the industry against subclass 417 and subclass 462. The address of the labour-hire agency, or of a head office in a city, is not the workplace.
Eighty-eight days and one hundred and seventy-nine days are not calendar guesses
The second visa looks for 88 days of specified work. The third looks for 179. The page also applies a minimum calendar period: about three calendar months for the second visa and about six for the third. A dense block of shifts that adds up to 88 work days inside a shorter calendar period can still fail that minimum. Part-time and piece-rate work are not counted the same way as a full-time roster. Enter the pattern you actually worked.
From 1 July 2026 the page records an age limit of 18 to 35 for subclass 417 holders of Republic of Korea passports, and for several other passports, with the last moment at 23:59 Australian Eastern Standard Time on the day before the 36th birthday. Check that line if you are close to the birthday. British and British National (Overseas) passport holders are recorded as exempt from the specified-work requirement for a second or third subclass 417 visa applied for on or after 1 July 2024. Condition 8547 still applies to that work.
What to enter
- Subclass 417 or 462, and the passport.
- The workplace postcode, not the agency’s office.
- The dates and whether the work was full-time, part-time, or piece rate, so the same day is not counted twice.
- Any stretch with one employer that may meet the six-month condition 8547 limit.
The page also shows the visa application charge it is using. Read that figure on the page when you are ready to lodge. A charge from an old screenshot is not the charge.
Count the days at the workplace postcode
Enter the passport, the subclass, and the postcode where the work was done. Send the rosters if a second or third visa depends on those days.
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Sources and further reading
- Park & Co Lawyers: Working Holiday specified-work page
- Home Affairs: Working Holiday visa (subclass 417)
- Home Affairs: Work and Holiday visa (subclass 462)
Sources checked on 7 November 2026. This article provides general information, not advice about an individual application. Check the law and official guidance that apply to your circumstances, and the dates on any notice you hold, before you act.
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