Make Australia a retirement village for third world migrants
>Migrant communities have stepped up their campaign to loosen Australia’s newly established ‘temporary’ elderly parental visas, which from this month will allow up to 15,000 elderly parents of migrants to live in Australia for a continuous period of three, five or 10 years.
Several migrant communities have labelled these “absolutely unfair” because of the circa $2,000 a year application fee, the need to have private health insurance, as well as the minimum family income threshold of $83,454.80. From SBS News:
Melbourne couple Inderdeep and Harpreet Sandhu were looking forward to Australia’s new temporary parent visa, so their parents in India could spend more time with their three children.
Now, they say, they have been left wanting.
“It is absolutely unfair because what the initial terms and conditions promised were … they have not been stuck to,” Mr Sandhu told SBS News.
…families can only sponsor one set of parents and will be able to renew the visa only once, meaning parents are permitted to stay in Australia for a total of 10 years…
“For us, this visa means a lot, our culture is such that we have always been used to having joint families and to having our elders around us.”