what is HR country?
Jun 26th 2009, 1:54 pm
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what is HR country?
HR stand for what?
Jun 26th 2009, 1:58 pm
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Re: what is HR country?
The short answer is if you need to apply for a visa as opposed to getting a Electronic Travel Authorisation online to visit australia for business or leisure, you live in a HR country. There is a section on the DIAC explaining it in more formally.
Link: http://www.immi.gov.au/visitors/tour...ligibility.htm if your country is not on the list you are HR.
Link: http://www.immi.gov.au/visitors/tour...ligibility.htm if your country is not on the list you are HR.
Last edited by Gtrotter; Jun 26th 2009 at 2:14 pm. Reason: Added link
Jun 26th 2009, 6:09 pm
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Re: what is HR country?
HR = High risk country
LR = Low risk country
LR = Low risk country
Jun 27th 2009, 1:15 pm
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Re: what is HR country?
HR High Risk means high risk of applicant not returning to their home country and is based on analysis of overstay rates. Sometime it maybe a specific group, I think in Hungary (and other Central Eastern European countries) 18-35 single woman were seen as in HR category......getting to Australia for one a particular purpose e.g. tourism, then marrying Australian guys/dopes, and not for love 
Jun 27th 2009, 4:01 pm
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Re: what is HR country?
HR High Risk means high risk of applicant not returning to their home country and is based on analysis of overstay rates. Sometime it maybe a specific group, I think in Hungary (and other Central Eastern European countries) 18-35 single woman were seen as in HR category......getting to Australia for one a particular purpose e.g. tourism, then marrying Australian guys/dopes, and not for love
this sounds quite interesting and i think this is probably the most likely reason for classification, which is primarily intended for visitors though. I wonder how this would be applied to immigrants???
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Jun 27th 2009, 8:09 pm
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Re: what is HR country?
The High Risk countries are the same ones for immigration purposes; more detailed checks are usually required and thus visas can take longers to be granted.
Jun 28th 2009, 8:50 am
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Re: what is HR country?
hence, the forms need to be re-reviewed and references re-checked. result is --> high risk.
