SunshineGirl

Just curious. An ETA? Has he got PR? Or is there a Royal visa?

Quinkana

Royal Pardon.

mlbonner

LMAO

Wonder if Crown Prince Frederik has a spouse visa!!

brisnick

wouldn't work since mary isn't australian anymore!

mlbonner

well that would certainly make it more difficult then

Siren & Brian

She never was. She was Tasmanian

JAJ

There's no such thing as a 'Royal' visa but there is such a thing as a 'special purpose visa' given to people for whom the standard visa and immigration clearance arrangements may not apply.

This includes members of the Royal Family, other guests of Government, and a range of other categories.
http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/html/pas...0/PR002350.htm

Jeremy

CPW

I do hope you were just being silly!

karenjc

I acutally think he is travelling on the aussie tax payer, quite sure that when the inbreeds travel to most commonwealth country's it's the host nation that foots the bill (gives the uk a break).

Merlot

Nupe, but they does take MasterCard

Sorry could not resist, as long as it is not my tax money that is paying for it.

M

SunshineGirl

Jeremy, I had a quick peek:

MIGRATION REGULATIONS 1994
- REG 2.40 Persons having a prescribed status — special purpose visas (Act, s 33 (2) (a))



Persons who hold prescribed status

(1)
For the purposes of paragraph 33 (2) (a) of the Act (which deals with persons who are taken to have been granted special purpose visas), and subject to this regulation, each non-citizen who is included in one of the following classes of person has a prescribed status:

(a)
members of the Royal Family;

(b)
members of the Royal party;

(c)
guests of Government;

(d)
SOFA forces members;

(e)
SOFA forces civilian component members;

(f)
Asia-Pacific forces members;

(g)
Commonwealth forces members;

(h)
foreign armed forces dependants;

(j)
foreign naval forces members;

(k)
members of the crew of non-military ships (other than ships being imported into Australia);

(kaa)
spouses and dependent children of members of the crew of non-military ships (other than ships being imported into Australia);

(ka)
members of the crew of ships being imported into Australia;

(l)
airline positioning crew members;

(m)
airline crew members;

(n)
transit passengers who belong to a class of persons specified in a Gazette Notice for the purposes of this paragraph;

(p)
persons visiting Macquarie Island;

(q)
children born in Australia:

(i)
of a mother who at the time of the birth holds a special purpose visa, if only the mother is in Australia at that time; or
(ii)
to parents both of whom, at the time of the birth, hold special purpose visas, if at that time both parents are in Australia;
(t)
Indonesian traditional fishermen visiting the Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands.

So exactly where is Macquarie Island or Ashmore/Cartier?

DollyDaydream

You're scaring me....

D D

SunshineGirl

I'm scaring me too!

JAJ

I would think that standard protocol for funding the visit of overseas dignitaries is observed, and to me it would be normal for the host nation to pay. No different to having private guests in your own house.

The UK almost certainly foots the bill when Australian dignitaries visit.

And in the context of national budgets, the amounts concerned are next to nothing.

Jeremy

JAJ

They're a long way apart!

Macquarie Island is in the Southern Ocean, halfway between Tasmania and Antarctica. It's part of the State of Tasmania.
http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=7151

The Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands is an External Territory of Australia in the Timor Sea. Not too far from Indonesia.
http://www.dotrs.gov.au/terr/ashcart/
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/...k/geos/at.html

The Territory is part of Australia's migration zone however is an 'excised offshore place' which means that anyone landing there unlawfully cannot make an onshore protection visa application (offshore processes exist instead to satisfy Australia's international obligations).

Jeremy