At current planning levels, new parent visa applications will take about 19 years to be granted. That's too long for elderly parents to wait, campaigners say. Read the full story here: auspol parentsareimmediatefamily immigration australia
According to the Department of Home Affairs, new Contributory Parent visa applications are likely to take at least 65 months to be released for final processing.Premdeep Singh Dandiwal and his brother always had a plan for their parents to eventually be reunited with them in Adelaide.
In 2017, she and her brother applied for Contributory Parent Visas for her ageing parents who lived in Tehran. “By then, many elderly parents of Australian citizens who live overseas and are desperate to relocate to Australia may not even be alive or in sound health to relocate,” Ms Giordana told SBS News.
“Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been ongoing disruptions to biometric collection, English-language testing centres, paper application lodgement centres and panel doctor facilities. These services have consequently impacted caseload processing,” the statement said. According to Abul Rizvi – former deputy secretary of the Department of Immigration – concern over an ageing population is a factor.
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