Pack essential items
Make sure you bring the following documents
- Passport with student visa
- Letter of offer and confirmation of enrolment (CoE) issued via email
- Receipts of payments (tuition fees, health cover, etc)
- Letter of scholarship award (if applicable)
- Original/certified copies of your academic transcripts
- Supporting documentation for advanced standing (if you want to receive credit for studies you have already completed)
- Other personal documents, such as driver’s license, ID card, medical records or prescriptions.
Make sure you bring the following items in your hand luggage
- About AUD200 in cash
- Warm clothing
- Your Student Life at UNSW guidebook
Leave emergency contact information with family and friends
Before you leave, please give your friends and relatives the telephone number of International Student Services in case they need to contact you urgently:
Telephone: +61 2 9385 5332
What not to bring into Australia
Australia is geographically isolated, and is therefore free from many of the world’s agricultural diseases and insects. For this reason, there are strict quarantine regulations that prohibit travellers from bringing most plant or animal products – and unprocessed food products – into Australia.
Things that travellers cannot bring into Australia include:
- Dairy products
- Tealeaves
- Wooden furniture that includes bark
- Toys and ornaments that contain seeds, or pillows containing straw
- Instant noodles that contain meat
- Footwear or camping equipment that has become soiled overseas
If you are unsure of anything in your possession, you should declare it when you pass through customs. The customs officials will tell you if it is prohibited. If customs officials inspect your luggage and they find any prohibited material that you have not declared, they will confiscate it and they may issue you with a fine.
Visit the following page of the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service website to check what you cannot bring into Australia
There are also certain items that cannot be sent to Australia by mail. You should let your family and friends know what these are.
