I'm thinking of immigrating to Australia. Would there be any issues if I what my parents to also immigrate, they are in their 60s?

You really are new aren't you. Visit the DIMIA website and do some research. www.immi.gov.au

Hi.

In essence, there are three avenues open to you, which are:

(a) Non-contributory parent visa.

This visa is the cheap option BUT the downside is that it can take years for them to get their visas.

(b) Contributory parent visa.

A very expensive option which requires your parents to pay 2 hefty installments as part of the application process and you could expect this visa to be issued within the year (normally on average).

(c) Retirement visa.

This has recently been made far more stringent in terms of requirements and one of the prohibitive factors is the amount of money that your parents are expect to have in their name.

Of course, there are also health and character requirements that they will also need to meet but for a starting point look up the above on the DIMIA site (or do a search on here). I think that the contributory visa also requires that at least half of your parents children are residing in Australia at the time of application?

Here's the place to start http://www.dimia.gov.au/allforms/books3.htm ,

S

[QUOTE=DunRoaminTheUK]Hi.

In essence, there are three avenues open to you, which are:

(a) Non-contributory parent visa.

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with this one you can apply onshore and providing you are accepted can stay until your visa is granted, usually anything between 3 and 7 years, but obviously you still have to meet all the criteria for it.

Lynn

[QUOTE=movetoperth] 3 to 7 years?-the way I read it is at 1000 Sub class 103 visas per year being available and a queue of 12000+ (see https://www.ecom.immi.gov.au/qcalc/Q...c/QDateCalc.do ) it's gonna be 12 years to get the visa.
S

[QUOTE=stubbyholder] many things can push you up the waiting list, number of children here and elsewhere, if children here are citizens, there's a few othert things too but i can;t remember them at the moment.... plus there will be some who will not last long enough to get their visa.

I'vebeen looking into this a lot for my aged oldies and i'm sure there is a downside to applying onshorebut i havent been able to find it yet, so if you know could you tell me please

Lynn

[QUOTE=movetoperth] I agree that there's processing priorities dependent on the things you've mentioned.
It's the sheer volume of global applicants coupled to the limited places available that causes the substantial waiting time for this visa.

On the downside - whilst they are onshore waiting? I suppose they don't enjoy the benefits of a permanent resident( the big one being medical cover) - is that the case? I assume that they are/would be on a visitors visa? I was under the impression that DIMA take a poor view of folks that reside in Aus. by renewing visitor visas, and that they were tightening up this situation. I may be wrong!, and I'll stand corrected if this is the case. Also they have to be off shore when it's granted.... which is no big deal, I suppose. We decided that life's too short, dug deep and got CP visas, so haven't done a great deal of research re the class 103 visa.
S

I really would advise speaking to an agent about it. My husbands parents plan to go once we are out there and when they saw an agent about it we got some info that was very different from what we initially thought was the case - in actual fact it was much more positive than we initially anticipated.

[QUOTE=movetoperth] Don't quote me on it, but I'm sure my parents in law have been told to apply onshore.... I don't know any of the reasoning behind it though!

Bit confused as all your other posts are about going to Canada (last one 4 minutes prior to this one) do you suffer rapid major decision swings????