Australia Passed Migration Amendment Bill To Start Temporary Parent Visa

03 Dec 2018

It took over 02 years, but ultimately, a bill that will affect several family visas was moved by both Parliament Houses in the last week. The Migration Amendment (Other parameters and Family Violence) Bill 2016 forms a definition of an authorized family sponsor in the Migration Act 1958 (Cth). Meanwhile, the provisions look innocuous adequately, it will have lasting impacts on several family visas and paves the route for the long-anticipated temporary parent visa to be launched.

The Current Provisions Cover:

• Demanding an evaluation of people wanting to sponsor others for a family visa;
• Promoting information sharing between specific parties; and
• Granting legal recourse to drop and bar people from being allowed family sponsors to enhance the family violence management within the new visa program.

Major Impacts of the Migration Amendment Bill

Once the bill gets royal approval and becomes law, an authorized family sponsor will be identified from an approved work sponsor, a regime that presently applies to many current temporary visas, the Temporary Skill Shortage (Subclass 482) visa being the most successful.

Importantly, for any visa demanding an authorized family sponsor, the sponsor needs to be confirmed before any appropriate visa application is made. It will have signs to onshore permits because possible applicants may be at the sympathy of the Home Affairs Department processing times, not to mention problems arising should a sponsorship appeal be refused.

It may not bode well for spouse visas if the sponsor applications  processing takes the equivalent time as visa appeals. Currently, 75% of Partner visas (Subclass 820) are processed within the tenure of 21 months.

This current Temporary Parent visa is dependent on this law passing as although there will be a demand for parents to possess private health insurance, an alteration to the bill places responsibilities on the family sponsor to cover hospital, medical, aged care, and other health-related costs.

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