A review criticizes Australia's lengthy visa wait times for parents, revealing nearly 2,300 applicants died while awaiting approval in the last three years. The department acknowledged the significant backlog and the cruelty of offering visas with minimal chance of issuance. The review recommends a lottery system or expanded temporary migration options.
‘Providing an opportunity for people to apply for a visa that will probably never come seems both cruel and unnecessary’, review saysWait times for visas to bring parents to Australia are so long that nearly 2,300 applicants died before receiving a visa in the last three years, according to the home affairs department.
The review recommended introducing a green-card style lottery system to more fairly allocate parent visas or even to “completely access to permanent residence for parents while improving access to temporary migration”.annually by 25% from 2024-25, from 185,00 to 140,000 for the first two years, stepping back up to 150,000 and then 160,000 over the next two.
Rizvi said there is no political appetite to address the parental visa backlog, because of the “large” budget costs to bring non-working age parents who receive services like Medicare into Australia.Rizvi suggested the temporary parent visa, which allows an initial stay of three to five years, “will become more attractive” given the difficulties of getting a permanent visa.
“It’s a three-year visa but the maximum stay is 12 months,” he said, meaning his parents have to periodically go back to India.Baines’ parents had been coming to Australia for eight or nine years but only applied for a contributory parent visa in May 2023 due to the cost, meaning they have a wait of at least another 12 years in front of them for a permanent visa.
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