Tom Hawk

Hello everyone,

We recieved our PR visa this year in May and made our initial entry in
August 2002.
we had decided that we will move permantely to Australia by 2004, but
now my wife is expecting.

My question is-
What visa will we have to apply as the child will be born outside
Australia, when we made the initial entry we stayed for just 2 days ie
48hours, Is there a condition that the parents must have stayed in
Australia for a certain amount of years before they can sponser the
newborn.

If the visa is granted Will there be a initial enrty date for the
child (newborn)????.

I would appretiate if some one can throw light on the above questions.
Thanking you in advanced.
Tom.

ptlabs

1) No, so long as the parents hold valid permanent resident visas or are Austalian citizens, the child can be sponsored by the parents for a Child visa.

2) A Child visa has no initial entry date condition. It is simply valid for 5 years from date of grant.


Peter

Jaj

Peter, as far as I know a Child visa (subclass 101) does have an
initial entry date condition:

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101.6 Conditions
101.611 First entry must be made before a date specified by the
Minister for the
purpose.
101.612 Either or both of conditions 8502 and 8515 may be imposed.

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Jeremy

    >On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 00:05:07 +0000, ptlabs wrote:
    >2) A Child visa has no initial entry date condition. It is simply valid
    > for 5 years from date of grant.
    >Peter
    >--
    >Go to http://www.austimeline.com/ to check Australian visa timelines.
    >Posted via http://britishexpats.com

This is not intended to be legal advice in any jurisdiction

ptlabs

Jeremy,

I was looking at the subclass 802 Child visa (which is inapplicable here, actually!), apologies. 802 Child does not have an initial entry date, although, 101 Child does, you're right.


Peter

Jaj

Peter

1. It's almost universal for permanent visas granted offshore to have
a 'first entry date'. Onshore visas, needless to say, do not have
such a condition.

2. There is a requirement for permanent residents wishing to sponsor
that they should not only hold a permanent visa, but should be
'usually resident' in Australia. I'm not sure how strictly this has
been enforced in the past (there have been cases before where people
who only spent a short time in Australia to validate their PR visas
were able to sponsor children). However, with the Department policy
on sponsorship tightening up there is I think a real risk that PR visa
holders who have not established residence in Australia will find
sponsorship more difficult in future.

Jeremy


    >On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 01:54:54 +0000, ptlabs wrote:
    >Originally posted by Jaj
    >> Peter, as far as I know a Child visa (subclass 101) does have an
    >> initial entry date condition:
    >> 101.6 Conditions
    >> 101.611 First entry must be made before a date specified by the
    >> Minister for the
    >> purpose.
    >> 101.612 Either or both of conditions 8502 and 8515 may be imposed.
    >>
    >Jeremy,
    >I was looking at the subclass 802 Child visa (which is inapplicable
    >here, actually!), apologies. 802 Child does not have an initial entry
    >date, although, 101 Child does, you're right.
    >Peter
    >--
    >Go to http://www.austimeline.com/ to check Australian visa timelines.
    >Posted via http://britishexpats.com

This is not intended to be legal advice in any jurisdiction