Can retired Chinese parents immigrate to Australia?

According to Australia’s immigration regulations: everyone applying for Australian immigration must apply for residency. The right of residence guarantees the applicant the freedom to live, study and work in Australia. If you need to leave Australia temporarily, the applicant's passport must have a valid returning resident visa stamp to ensure that the applicant re-enters Australia as a resident.

Can Australian parent immigration be carried out at the same time as visiting relatives? My child lives with his father in Australia, is over 18 years old, and has an Australian green card. He can apply for my immigration. 1. After applying for parent immigration, he can apply Visiting relatives in Australia will not affect the progress of parent immigration visa processing. 2. Of course, the paid category is recommended. Even if the queuing category is based on the 2,000 places in 2011-2012, it will take 13 years. 3. The first application fee is 1,995 Australian dollars + When the visa is about to be approved, you need to pay 40,015 Australian dollars.

Immigration Minister Bowen announced that the validity period of parent tourist visas for Australian citizens and permanent residents and the maximum length of stay for each entry will be extended at the end of the year. Among them, overseas applicants for parents’ permanent residence visa can obtain a tourist visa with a term of 5 years and a stay of 12 months for each entry. Parents who have not applied for permanent residence may also enjoy a 3-year tourist visa. For the majority of Chinese immigrants to Australia, this new policy is undoubtedly an important benefit. It will now become more convenient for parents to come to Australia to reunite with their children, and some have even suggested that the extended tourist visa will make paid-for parent immigration applications no longer necessary.

Interpretation of tourist visa for new parents

The changes to the tourist visa for parents of Australian citizens and permanent residents recently announced by Immigration Minister Bowen will greatly facilitate parents to visit relatives in Australia compared with before. . The parent tourist visa currently in effect only provides one-time entry and exit opportunities. The period of stay in Australia is usually 3 to 6 months, and 12-month approval can be obtained under special circumstances. According to an immigration expert, if your parents have come to Australia with a tourist visa before and have no bad records such as staying abroad, it is possible to obtain a 12-month visa for the second tourist visa. This "possibility" depends on: the child here is an only child and really needs the care of his parents (for example: the daughter must need her mother to get pregnant. Or she is seriously ill, etc.). In addition, if there are some very touching reasons, we do not rule out granting a 12-month visa the first time.

Under the upcoming new policy, the tourist visa will not only extend the validity period to 3 years, but also allow multiple entry and exit, and the single stay period can directly reach 12 months. For parents who have already applied for immigration and are in the queue, the validity period is up to 5 years. In addition, most people do not care about the clause that requires them to leave the country once every 12 months of stay. “Originally, I have to return to the country once a year.” The advantage of extending the tourist visa is that it makes it easier for parents to come to Australia to take care of their children and Taking care of the grandchildren for your children allows the children to focus more on their work. In addition, it also allows the parents to experience Australian life in an all-round way.

Cindy, who has already applied for a queued immigrant visa for her parents, originally planned to wait until her parents in China retire before considering paid immigration. After hearing about the new policy that is expected to be implemented at the end of the year, Cindy said happily: "Now we can bring our parents to live for a while, so that they can know whether Australia is suitable for them."

Parents No need to pay to immigrate from now on?

Just when people were lamenting that the new policy made it easier to reunite with their families, a more interesting point of view was also raised. Someone asked online, if you have a new tourist visa, you don’t have to pay to apply for immigration for your parents?

According to Australia’s immigration policy, there are two types of parent immigration visas, one is for those who need to queue up Parent Visa (103), and the other is Contributory Parent Visa (143), which is a paying parent immigrant. The application fee for the former is only a few thousand yuan, but the waiting time for a visa may be as long as 20 years. The latter requires each parent to spend more than 40,000 Australian dollars, and the waiting time is about one and a half years. Even if you get a visa under both methods, you generally have to wait another 10 years to enjoy most of Australia's social security benefits. Obviously, paid immigration can allow parents to settle in Australia faster, but it will also cost more.

In addition, the current immigration policy has made great efforts to save one person’s expenses by first applying for immigration for one parent, and then applying for a spouse visa for the other parent after approval. restrictions (one party is required to be approved 5 years before it can sponsor the other party). So some netizens reluctantly said that they could not afford the immigration expenses for two people. "Many families have already spent a lot of money to send their children to study. The children have just obtained PR and cannot afford to pay the immigration expenses of two elderly people at one time. If it is For two married people, the cost of four elderly people can probably be used as a down payment for a house in some areas."

It can be seen that the new tourist visa does provide many people with a low cost. The convenience of bringing parents over in many cases.

However, with this tourist visa that can stay for 12 months at a time, are all problems really solved? Huang Wenyong reminded everyone on Weibo to consider the following issues: "If your parents get older in the future, , Is it convenient to fly long distances? Is it convenient to get a physical examination every time a visa is issued? How do you take care of the elderly when they are sick in the country? And if you get immigration early, you can enjoy legal benefits early. "At the same time, he also suggested that families with average financial status can. Consider paying for one parent first, and the other parent can apply for two 3-year tourist visas to stay in Australia, and then apply for a spouse visa after five years.

Netizen iistart believes that it is more cost-effective to pay. “If you come early, you can still receive a pension in 10 years, and the expenses paid after a few years will be paid out. If you don’t pay, it is still not worth it. Once the approval is obtained, parents We are all old, and the benefits are relatively less."

Regarding the issue of paid immigration, Cindy, whose parents are still working in China, has not thought too much, "Let's wait in line now, and wait for them to retire. Maybe it's their turn, and if it takes a long time, it's not too late to pay," she told reporters.