Conditions for Australian parents to apply for a five-year temporary residence visa

Assistant Australian Immigration Minister Alex Hawke announced that the Australian government will launch a five-year community consultation and discussion program for parents' temporary visas, which means that parents' "quasi-PR" visas have taken a substantial and significant step. At present, the parents' visiting visa has a maximum period of 12 months for Australian citizens or children of Australian PR, which is undoubtedly good news for families eager for reunion. The following are the conditions for you to apply for a five-year temporary residence visa for Australian parents.

"The Turnbull government will conduct extensive consultations to ensure that the implementation environment of this visa is suitable for most people." Hawke said. And said that this visa will be officially implemented on July 20 1 July 71day, and the government official documents have been issued.

This new visa has not been officially launched, but through the latest opinion draft of the Immigration Bureau on the new visa, let's see what features this new visa has:

Purchase private medical insurance: Applicants must purchase private medical insurance from Australian medical insurance companies. This is somewhat similar to the situation that international students must purchase private medical insurance when applying for a temporary work visa after graduation;

Child sponsorship: The parents applying for a five-year temporary residence visa must be sponsored by their children living in Australia. As a guarantor, you must live in Australia for many years and make contributions to Australian society. The guarantor must provide proof of property and income to prove that he has enough ability to support his parents' life in Australia, and he needs to pass a series of audits. The opinion draft also pointed out that guarantors who have made long-term contributions to Australia will have the priority to become guarantors. The application for sponsorship will be independent of the visa application and must be completed before the visa application;

Security deposit: The security deposit for this parents' temporary residence visa will be similar to the existing security deposit system (AoS) for parents' immigrant visas, in order to ensure that parents holding this visa will not bring additional economic pressure or medical burden to Australia;

This new temporary residence visa can last for up to five years, but the duration of the visa can also be adjusted according to the actual situation of the applicant and guarantor, usually one year, three years or five years. The new temporary residence permit is different from a tourist visa, and you don't need to leave the country once after a period of time. In other words, once parents get this temporary residence visa, they can stay in Australia to accompany their children until the visa comes;

Visa fee: The new visa fee is not known at present. Predictably, the cost is much higher than the tourist visa, but lower than the permanent residence visa. You can also apply for a permanent residence visa for your parents when you submit this temporary residence visa. (Detailed consultation)

It is reported that the announcement of the five-year parents' temporary visa was made after the publication of a report on parents' immigration costs issued by the Australian Productivity Commission. According to the estimate of the Productivity Commission, the cost of parents' emigration is too high for the country, and the total cost will be as high as 2.6 billion-3.2 billion dollars in the parents' lifetime.

At present, the mother visa is divided into two branches, which are applicable to related persons including Australian citizens and Australian PR: non-contributor visa and contributor visa. Among them, the visa for non-contributors needs to be approved in 18-30 years, which costs 7000 dollars, and the visa for contributors needs about 2 years, which costs 50000 dollars.

Although the announcement of this five-year visa plan was partly due to fulfilling the succession promise given by Tan Bao's government during the election campaign, the smooth implementation of this plan was due to the government's economic consideration of saving costs and expanding income. However, for families who meet the application and security conditions, it will be good news if economic conditions permit.