Dorothy

I have some friends who are currently here on a 410 retirement visa from UK. They have applied for a contributory parent visa but as everyone knows the wait is ages. Anyway, the wife needs to have a procedure done which is somewhat urgent but not an emergency. Is it correct that once a PR visa is applied for onshore a person is entitled to full Medicare? I did look at the Medicare site but couldn't find what I was looking for there.

Help is karma worthy.

ozhappy981

That is true but not if the person is applying for a Parent Visa. It says: [While waiting for their new visa to be granted] "Non-citizens in Australia are eligible for Medicare if they have applied for a permanent residency visa other than a Parent Visa."

Read here (scroll down to the bit about Medicare): http://www.immi.gov.au/allforms/pdf/1024i.pdf

If you think about it, it is logical: People on a contributory parent visa have to pay a hefty chunk of money should they fall ill and need to use Medicare. It wouldn't make much sense to allow visa applicants access to Medicare before they've handed over the cash. (I don't mean this to sound harsh; but I think that is the logic behind the rule.)

Dorothy

Yes, it is logical. Especially when the wait is so bloody long.

Thanks for your help and karma has been despatched.

Grayling

Not true

People on a contributory parent visa have exactly the same medicare rights as any other PR visa holder.....they do not have to pay anything extra once they have the visa.

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ozhappy981

Part of the process of getting the visa is parting with the cash ...
That's why applicants for the visa don't have the right to Medicare. Only once the visa has been granted can they access Medicare.

Grayling

Indeed......but you originally said that:

" People on a contributory parent visa have to pay a hefty chunk of money should they fall ill and need to use Medicare".

They don't....I was correcting that statement.


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ozhappy981

Dorothy was asking about applicants. And that was what I was writing about. I am really surprised you didn't get that, especially as you yourself have a contributory parent visa - age getting to you ?

Grayling

Go and re read what you said and then apologise....This is your post:

"That is true but not if the person is applying for a Parent Visa. It says: [While waiting for their new visa to be granted] "Non-citizens in Australia are eligible for Medicare if they have applied for a permanent residency visa other than a Parent Visa."

Read here (scroll down to the bit about Medicare): http://www.immi.gov.au/allforms/pdf/1024i.pdf

If you think about it, it is logical: People on a contributory parent visa have to pay a hefty chunk of money should they fall ill and need to use Medicare. It wouldn't make much sense to allow visa applicants access to Medicare before they've handed over the cash. (I don't mean this to sound harsh; but I think that is the logic behind the rule.)"


People on a contributory parent visa do not have to pay: "a hefty chunk of money should they they fall ill and have to use medicare".

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Dorothy

Well, thanks for the argument about semantics instead of giving an answer. Very helpful.

Grayling

I was giving an answer and it is not semantics.

Ozhappy's first post gave the impression that those on a parent visa would still need to pay a hefty sum if they became ill and needed medicare.....which is simply not true.

If this forum is supposed to give information then at least it should be accurate,....read it again yourself.

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ozhappy981

I said nothing of the sort.

Go and take a chill-pill. And it you have nothing helpful to post - don't post (just a suggestion).

Your pot-stirring posts were amusing for a while - but it's getting really boring YAWN.

Grayling

This is what you posted in post no. 2:

"If you think about it, it is logical: "People on a contributory parent visa have to pay a hefty chunk of money should they fall ill and need to use Medicare".

An apology please.