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16 Aug 2018
The Government in Australia has strengthened the integrity of Australian citizenship and shows that there are a few changes to Australian citizenship laws for September 2018. It had announced some changes on 20th April 2017 with the intention that they will take effect on that date. The Bill needed drafting and passing through Parliament, which failed on 18th October 2017. Since that date, there were a few discussions to finally introduce these changes into law.
These proposed changes require the applicants to:
Taking the general pathway, all applicants need to first meet the residency requirements.
The present legislation requires that the applicants must be in Australia for at least:
Previous 4 years, on a temporary/permanent visa. In this period they must not spend more than 12 months overseas and also for these 12 months, on a permanent visa, they must not spend more than 3 months overseas.
Moreover:
This legislation must undergo the discussion and passing stages in the Parliament. It is under topic of discussion for more than one year and can commence soon.
The visa holders feeling its impact will be:
Those who have the approval of permanent partner application will be affected. Provisional partner visa holders must be living for 6 years before meeting the criteria for proposed residency.
Those who have lived/worked in Australia, for a number of years, prior to qualifying for PR will be affected. They must be living in Australia for 7 years before meeting the criteria for proposed residency.
Those who complete studies in the country, before starting the permanent visa process, through the General Skilled Migration program will be affected.
In case these changes get an approval the process to get citizenship will become hard and take a long time for applicants.
In case the applicant meets the present citizenship requirements he/she consider filing application now.
If the legislation gets an approval, after you file the application and before any decision, the changes can apply retrospectively and the application can be rejected.
Many legislative changes during the past 16 months were not applied retrospectively. Please file the citizenship application before introduction of the legislation in Parliament.
Immigration laws of all nations are complicated and the applicants must seek professional immigration guidance for success.
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