Contributory Visa Applications

**hayshake** · 25-10-2006, 04:28 PM

My wife and I sent our visa application forms to Perth in June and had these acknowledged in July, together with a receipt for the initial payment of nearly £600.
We are now at the end of October, and no more news. I have applied for police checks without being asked, but can anybody advise if it is worth getting medicals done without being asked for. These processes seem very slow, but no doubt we will get some communication before long?

**Alan Collett** · 25-10-2006, 10:56 PM

I spoke with the Parents Offshore Processing Centre in Perth last week and was advised that the quoted timeline for the processing of offshore Contributory Parent applications (subclasses numbers 143 and 173) are 12 to 15 months presently.

If this timeline continues you are unlikely to hear from a case officer until at least Easter of next year, and as police checks and medicals usually have a validity of 12 months I would not recommend obtaining and lodging them for at least another 6 months.

Best regards.

**rache76** · 26-10-2006, 12:16 AM

Thanks for your reply Alan,
I was wondering the Contributory Aged visa can be applied for 'on shore'. Would this apply to my parents? Would they be able to get a tourist/visitor visa and apply over in Australia? Then get the visa extended as long as there is 'no further stay' on it.
I see there are a few different visa catergories for the Aged Parent catergories that can be applied for 'on shore', Who are these visa's for if they are not already a permanent resident?
It's all so difficult to understand and not black and white!!!!!!
Thanks
Rache

**Alan Collett** · 26-10-2006, 12:30 AM

Hello Rache.

So long as your parents are "Aged" (as defined) and are in Australia they can lodge an application for a Contributory Aged Parent visa. Such a pathway is typically used by - say - the holder of a Retirement visa who has a child who is now "settled" and can therefore act as the Sponsor for the permanent residency visa.

Coming to Australia on (say) a visitor visa such as an ETA and applying for an onshore permanent residency visa is do-able, but is a risky exercise. I say this as coming to Australia on a vv knowing that you are coming to apply for an onshore permanent residency visa is - in my view - pushing the boundaries to the point of entering Australia unlawfully.

I say this as the purpose of a vv is to be in Australia for a holiday or other leisure activity. It is NOT intended to be used for the purpose of making an onshore visa application.

This said, I know some go down that pathway, but I wouldn't recommend it. If an applicant is outside Australia and wants to emigrate the proper pathway is via an offshore visa application.

Hope this helps.

**Gollywobbler** · 27-10-2006, 10:28 PM

Hi all

Rache, I would go further than Alan on this one.

A British Parent who applies for an offshore CP visa and then asks DIMA for a 12 month subclass 676 tourist-visa to help make the wait bearable is likely to receive sympathetic treatment from DIMA. This is how we went about it and they could not have been more kind and helpful.

This is the route I recommend.

With regard to the meds, as long as one is not aware of any significant meds issue, I would not be inclined to frontload the meds.

Nite

Gill

**Gollywobbler** · 28-10-2006, 09:43 PM

Hi guys

I think the real isue here is that a tourist visa permits a 'stay' but it does not confer 'residence' in Australia.

Cheers

Gill

**rache76** · 28-10-2006, 10:49 PM

Hiya
I think i understand what you're saying.
I am going to put to my parents that they come to Oz on a 676 vv. Put on it the reason that they will be helping myself and my young family to settle in, in the hope they will grant a visa for 12 months and you never know they may not put 'no further stay', then at least half our wait for the 'settlement period' will be over. They will just have to come back to UK for the time it takes to go through the application, i have heard about 18 months. They will just have to keep reapplying for the 676 vv until hopefully they will get accepted on the CP.
We will go throgh the correct paths and be honest with DIMA and hopefully they will be helpful and kind like they were to you.
Cheers for all the info.
Rache

**Gollywobbler** · 29-10-2006, 02:02 PM

Hi Rache

I think that you are now on the right track with this thing, and I don't see why you shouldn't have a pretty smooth ride with it.

Don't worry about Condition 8503 - no further stay. It only means, "On this visit only."

Mum spent most of her wait for her CP visa out in Oz. I know other parents who are doing the same. It is not a big deal.

Cheers

Gill