Skippy9

Hi there.

Was wondering if anyone could help me. My name is Hamish and im currently in the process of getting my 176 visa. My question is more for my wife, she would love it if her parents could come over to stay if we settled and decided to stay in oz for the long term. I have heard that you are able to sponsor people on a 176 visa, can't seem to find much information on the subject? Can you sponsor someone if you have citizenship ? What would the costs be?

Any help would be welcome thanks

Hamish.

Grayling

How many children do they have in total...and where do they live?

Skippy9

They have two children, when we arrive in oz it will be 1 in oz, 1 in Scotland.

Bermudashorts

You are probably thinking of the parent visa, you can sponsor as a PR or citizen subject to meeting certain criteria. The cost is about $40k for each parent I think.

The question asked by Grayling above is about the balance of family test, which they pass with one child in Australia and one outside.

Grayling

Then you will be able to sponsor for a contributory parent visa when you have been there for 2 years as they will pass the balance of family test....provided neither of them has any children from another relationship.

It will cost around $80000 for the two of them but is fairly easy to get and the wait is around 2 years from application.

There is also a non contributory visa which is cheaper but the wait is over 15 years

Look up Parent visas here:

www.immi.gov.au

Skippy9

Thanks very much, don't think the in laws are worth 80k ha ha!!!

Grayling

The CP visa will allow them to work, have full medicare rights and to become citizens after 4 years....it is a permanent visa.

It is really about the only viable visa available

Skippy9

That's brilliant thanks, and something for the inlaws to aim for. Thanks again for all the help.

Grayling

There is also an aged parent visa but I do not know much about that....you really need to read the information in the DIAC website which I posted a link to earlier

Good luck

renth

OK, I looked into this before my MIL died.

I reckon the cheapest/best thing to do in bring them over on tourist visas (you'll have to do some research on this because it's a type of tourist visa which doesn't have a clause forbidding you for applying for a different visa when in Australia).

Anyway, when in Australia apply for an onshore Parent Visa and they will get a bridging visa. By the time their Parent Visa application gets dealt with they will have died as it takes years and years.

Bermudashorts

Charming.

It is an option though. The parents (or one of them) would need to be over certain age (no minimum age for the contributory visa). And they also have to reconcile themselves with being on bridging visa status for a very long time, having to apply to leave the country etc.

Another possibility is spending six months in each country at a time, using tourist visa for the time in Australia.

Grayling

They have to be classed as 'aged' to do that. ie over 65

Dreamy

Do both parents have to be over 65?

Grayling

Just the primary applicant AFIK

http://www.immi.gov.au/media/fact-sh...1parents.htm#c

GarryP

Yep, summer in Oz, summer in the UK.

Needs a visa stamp run to another country, and an immigration person that doesn't ask too many nasty questions, but it's been done by people I know.