Chinese immigrants in Australia are not buying the new temporary guarantee parents visa, which they think is too expensive. (figure / SBS)
Recently, Australia has ushered in a major visa reform. Starting April 17, parents who want to reunite with immigrant children who live in Australia will be able to stay in Australia for as long as 10 years.
With the visa coming into effect, Chinese immigrants in Australia are not buying it, saying it is too expensive. In the case of a three-year temporary guarantee parent visa, an immigrant would have to pay A $5000 for a five-year visa, and that would be up to A $10, 000 for a five-year visa and, if renewed for another five years, another A $10, 000. 10 years from now, The temporary guarantee visa will require immigrant children to pay A $20, 000. This makes a lot of people bluntly say "can`t bear".
But on the other hand, for family reunion, parents and children to enjoy a good life and health care, whether the cost is worth, has become the focus of attention.
Here comes the new parents visa! the 10-year application fee amounts to $20, 000
In early March, Australian Prime Minister Morrison (left) announced that the Federal government would issue a new temporary parent guarantee visa. (figure / SBS)
In early March, Australian Prime Minister Morrison announced that the Federal government would introduce a new (temporary Sponsored Parent Visa,870 category for temporary parents guarantee visas, according to the SBS. From April 17, applicants can submit applications as guarantee people to provide guarantee for their parents. Australia is expected to issue as many as 15,000 visas a year, aimed at bringing benefits to many immigrant families, including Chinese, and ensuring that more families are reunited in Australia.
According to reports, 870 visas allow parents and grandparents of immigrants to stay longer in Australia. After the end of the first five-year period, immigrant parents can renew their visas and stay in Australia for another five years, with a total duration of up to 10 years.
In order to apply for this visa, guarantee persons (immigrants) are required to meet the following conditions:
Guarantee / Parental relationship requirements: the immigrant`s parents must be guarantee`s biological, adoptive or stepparents, and stepparents may apply only if they maintain an marriage / de facto relationship with the sponsor`s biological parents.
Guarantee must be Australian citizen, Australian permanent resident or qualified New Zealand citizen.
Guarantee people must be over 18 years of age.
Guarantee people do not have bad information unless there is a reasonable reason to ignore the relevant information.
Debt to federal or public health care is not permitted unless payment arrangements are in place.
Police clearance is required for any country that has lived for more than 12 months over the past 10 years.
Authorization to share information with visa applicants.
Guarantee persons on parental visas are also required to meet the following obligations:
Provide economic support and accommodation for parents in Australia.
Keep records and provide them to relevant immigration agencies if necessary. For example, proof of income. This obligation terminates after two years from the date on which the immigrant ceased to be a guarantee.
When certain incidents occur, the relevant authorities should be notified in time, for example, by was acciused, a guarantee. In this case, the guarantee obligation will cease on the first day after the immigrant ceases to be an guarantee.
Don`t burden Australia`s taxpayer. Parents have to buy their own health insurance.
As far as parents of immigrants are concerned, they are required to provide evidence that they have taken out medical insurance and meet health, integrity and Australian national security requirements. In addition, unlike permanent parental visas, visa holders cannot have more than half of their children residing in Australia.
About the new temporary guarantee parents immigration visa, Australian Federal Immigration, citizen and multiculturalism minister Coleman (David)
Coleman) said: "the introduction of the new visa will bring huge social benefits to thousands of households in Australia. Government can issue up to 15,000 guarantee parents (temporary) visas a year, allowing many families to reunite and share with each other. This will have a significant impact on many Australian families. "
On March 1, Prime Minister Morrison also introduced the new 870 visa in Chinese through his official social app account. Morrison said the guarantee fee would ensure that Australia`s taxpayer does not have to cover any medical and geriatric care costs for parents visa applicants.
The Chinese are not interested in the new visa. It is too expensive to say so.
Most of the Chinese interviewed in social app said they would not apply for a new visa,. (SBS screenshot.
However, according to the head of an immigration agency, his Chinese clients are not as interested as expected in the new visa introduced by Australia`s government.
It is reported that this is because if immigrant parents apply for a travel visit visa, their application fee is only 141 Australian dollars. According to Kirk Yan, director of education immigration in Melbourne and Tasmania, the new visa requires a guarantee fee of A $420, a three-year visa application fee of A $5000 and a five-year visa application fee of A $100 million, "said, Kirk Yan. If correspondence and complaint insurance is added, at least another A $1000 will be paid each year.
In a survey on social app, a social networking platform with more than 400 people, most of the respondents said they would not apply for a new visa. "69 percent of respondents said they would not apply for the visa even if they met the requirements," Kirk Yan said. Only 7 percent of respondents said they would apply and 23 percent would wait for further details from government.
In response to Prime Minister Morrison`s hard work on social app, 52 percent of social app respondents said they would not vote for the government in the upcoming federal election simply because of their 870 visas.
Losing money? Parents are not entitled to benefits immediately after they arrive in Australia
In fact, there were already two types of parents (permanent) immigration visas in Australia: queued (non-paid) parental immigration visas (Non-Contributory Parent Visa,103) and paid parents immigration visas (Contributory Parent Visa,143).
It is reported that according to the current trial process, queued parents immigration visa review period is 25 to 30 years. Paying parents` visas also have a backlog of nearly 50, 000 applicants. According to SBS, Australia`s government currently reviews 7175 visas a year, meaning that some people will wait seven years to get visas.
However, regardless of the type of parental immigration visa, the applicant will not receive benefits for at least 10 years after being signed.
Not only are parents immigration visas, as early as May last year, in the Budget released by former Tan Bao government, the period of receiving Australian welfare benefits for overseas immigrants was extended from three years to four years. The move plans to save $200 million in budget savings for the federal government over the next five years.
In this way, a 10-year temporary visa worth A $20,000 is not a good deal.
Parents often apply for visas to help Indian immigrants with their children express dissatisfaction with the proposal.
As early as 2017, when Australia`s Federal government proposed the proposal in Parliament, it was opposed by groups including Australian Indian immigrants. (figure / SBS)
In fact, it is not only that the Australian Chinese community is not interested in the new visa, as early as 2017, the Commonwealth government in Parliament when the proposal was made, including the Australian Indian immigrants and other groups of opposition.
Ankit Mistry, an Indian resident of Melbourne who had hoped to take his parents to Australia for a long time, said the new rules made the visa too expensive, according to SBS. And Arvind, an Indian resident in Adelaide,
"this new visa is a blackmail," says Duggal. In order to be reunited with our parents, we are being blackmailed and have to pay thousands of Australian dollars. That, in addition to the health insurance costs, is a lot of money. "
However, this visa is still coming when the struggle goes back to the end of the struggle.
For most people applying for Australian parental visas, the main reason is family reunification.
According to immigration agency Kirk Yan, one of the reasons many immigrants help parents apply for visas is to take care of their children. Among Chinese immigrants, dual-working families often turn to their parents for help in bringing their children to Australia. "I`ve heard stories in a lot of immigrant communities where some people are forced to delay plans to have children or send babies back to their ancestral countries for grandparents to take care of," Mr. Yan said.
But the obstacles include not only the length of visa processing, but also the excessive cost of visas, and these "realistic" barriers are keeping many immigrant parents out of the door. And even if these elderly parents break through the hurdles to get into Australia and they don`t have immediate benefits, it`s not the most economic way to rely on their children and themselves to cover all kinds of insurance costs.
Immigrant parents of the road, sweet also sweet, said bitter also bitter, but then again, there is a place of love is home.
For the continuation of love, Australia`s government on visa conditions need to be more tolerant ah!
