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Adjusted Spouse Visa Requirements for Australian Epidemic Period 4,000 beneficiaries

Source: xkb.com.au
 30 Nov 2020

Elliot and her husband, Bowie. (Photo of Sydney Morning Herald)

As many as 4000 Australian spouses will not have to leave Australia for a visa.

This temporary change in visa rules aims to help thousands of spouses in bureaucratic trouble. Many people had to leave Australia during the outbreak, then re-enter Australia to accept hotel isolation.

Labour councillor hill (Julian Hill) filed a separate councillor bill with the federal parliament on monday to allow applicants for 309 sub-spouse visas to be temporarily signed in australia. And the federal government are not expected to support the bill that Hill submitted because they will make only temporary adjustments to the relevant regulations, not amendments.

government sources also said the spouse whose visa is about to expire will be allowed to stay in Australia until the relevant visa adjustment is implemented in early 2021.

Under current regulations, persons who have submitted overseas applications for a spouse visa with a fee of over A $7,000 must be outside Australia before being signed.

The Federal government confirmed on Sunday that authorities would introduce a "temporary concession clause" for spouses currently in Australia who are unable to travel abroad due to border closures ". These new adjustments will also apply to applicants for children (child), adopted children (adoption), dependent children (dependent child) and unmarried (prospective marriage) visas.

The Acting Immigration minister (Alan Tudge) said the government would review the new visa requirements in the light of any adjustments to the Australian international travel restrictions.

"These are logical changes in order to reduce the impact of travel restrictions on our immigration programmes. "Importantly, this will allow foreign citizen, who are spouses of Australian citizen to apply for visas without leave Australia ," he said. "

councillor Hill noted, however, that the new adjustments did not specify who was covered and the specific timing of possible adjustments. Thus, in the coming months, these spouses (and possibly others) will continue to face high-risk and costly travel abroad, simply to obtain a visa. "

Couples who have already spent tens of thousands of Australian dollars on flights and quarantine have reason to be annoyed. And they deserve an apology and compensation from morrison (Scott Morrison) government. "

"More than 35,000 Australians are currently stranded overseas and are eager to return home. If minister don't do anything, how many places will be wasted before Christmas? "asked Hill.

The current cost of the 309 spouse visa is $7160. The couple must have a marry certificate or have established facts marriage relationship, and the applicant must be overseas when applying for a visa.

Melbourne woman Elliott (Amelia Elliott) had to sell her apartment this year to pay for a visa to help her husband Bowie (Bowie Domingo) get permanent residence.

Bowie, from the Philippines, applied for a (temporary) spouse visa in 2018 and was signed, with permanent residency last month.

He travelled to Singapore during the permanent residence visa process and has returned to Australia to be quarantined at his Perth hotel. The couple spent nearly $40,000 on travel and other expenses.

Elliot welcomed government new move. However, she believes that many more visas will expire at the end of the year before the new adjustment is implemented by the Ministry of the Interior in early 2021. "We have to make a lot of sacrifices... I don't want other partners to have the same experience. "

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