Contributory Parent Visa

[Gollywobbler]

Hi Woodview

Chooks, the fees will go up on 1st July 2007, for sure. 1st July is the start of the Australian Financial & Tax Year and it is also the start of the year for the visa program.

If you are able to get an application to the POPC on or before next Friday, the charges would be $60,000 if both of you apply for the CP 143 visa, plus $14,000 between you for the Bond, making $74,000 in total. It is not quite as bad as you thought, therefore.

Besides that, budget for courier charges for the application and for the meds, plus the cost of getting all the documents certified. Plus the cost of getting 2 sets of passport pix each and the cost of the photocopying if you cannot get that done for free. If you think in terms of about £700 on top of the money for DIAC, you'll be about right.

To Assure two adults, the Assurer needs to have a minimum net assessable income of not less than $42,500 at present. That might change on 1st July too, though. They hiked the minimum income required up to $40,000 - an increase of 20% - on 1st July 2006 with little or no advance warning.

If the Assurer has more than one child under the age of 18, increase the income he needs by $1,250 for each child over and above the first one.

Alan' Collett's articles about the AoS are vastly more use than my rickety maths, though!

Please see here:

Go Matilda - Your Gateway to Australia - News

and

Go Matilda - Your Gateway to Australia - News

When are you planning to apply for your CP visas and where in Oz are you planning to move to?

Cheers

Gill

[woodview]

Hi Gill
thank you for the info. I am jumping the gun rather as our son is not even out there yet (he is going to Brisane) but as we want to go we want to find out as much information as possible and apply as soon as we can. We are trying to piece together a time scale of when it would be the earliest that we can apply. Do we have to wait untill he has worked for 2 years with proof of pay or can we apply early on the assumption that his pay will fullfill the requirement? (ie can we apply after he has been out there 18 months as it takes at least 6 months to get a CO?) If we apply on the 10 year wait (parent visa), does he still have earning requirements and do we still have to wait 2 years before we can apply?
Eventhough we are not against paying the A$74,000 to get in early it seems like it is not that quick as we have to wait 2 years before we can apply then at least another 15 months before we may get in.
thanks again
Gill.

[Jo & John]

I was going to start a new thread, but I feel I am in the right spot. If parents do want to join you in Oz, is the contributary parent visa the only one they can come under? I had read somewhere I think that if they can bring a certain amount of money with them that helps. Is that still under the same visa or different, and is age an issue? Mom is asking lots ofquestions and I cant give her any answers, if I am in the wrong spot I can repost.

[newnico]

Hello Jo and John

You'll probably get a reply from Gollywobbler on the technical stuff here...she is a total expert and sorted her mother's application. I'm just replying to say welcome to PIO. I'm a single mum going over shortly to join 2 of my kids (got my contributory parent visa last month), so if I can be any help to your mum as time goes by, please tell her to ask!

Nico

[Jo & John]

Many thanks, and thanks for the welcome!

[Ann H]

Hi to all, this is my first post although have been reading threads for awhile. My inlaws have just submitted their cpv application lodgement date 25th May 07It will be a bit of a wait to next step but at least they are in the queue! good luck to all you lovely people its worth it in the end, weve been here in Adelaide since Jan 04 and love it, im sure i will be asking you all some questions down the track.
regards to all love Ann x

[Gollywobbler]

Hi Jo & John

If your Parents will become eligible for a Contributory Parent visa then firstly it confers Permanent Residence in Australia and secondly it costs a lot less than an Investor Retirement visa, which I think is the other one you have heard about.

Contributory Parent info is here:

Family - Visas & Immigration

and in Booklet 3 (Parent Migration) which is here:

http://www.immi.gov.au/allforms/booklets/1129.pdf

Info about the Investor retirement visa is here:

Investor Retirement (Subclass 405)

and on this thread:

405 Retirement Investor Visa - Topic Powered by eve community

Hope this helps.

Cheers

Gill

[Jo & John]

Thanks alot, this is all if we, get in and my mom and dad come out, and decide if my mom can stand the hot weather,enough to join us.

[Sids Dad]

Originally Posted by randpm

Hi everyone..... my wife and I are new to this forum idea...so we have applied for a parents visa on 1st Nov.2006 and wondered if anyone can give us any clues as to how long it is currently taking?

Hi, My wife and I applied for the CP 143 in May 2006, at the moment we are waiting for the approval. We had our meds a month ago and our AOS is being delt with as I write. I would expect that we will hear within a month or two.
Good luck with your application, are you using an agent or doing it all yourselves?

[OldiesRUs]

Really hacked off as we made the decision that we were going to go in January. Unfortunately, the original agent we spoke to messed us around sooooo much that we have wasted 4 months - during which time of course, it means that we will miss the 1 July deadline when all the fees go up. Can't believe that they are putting CPV up by 7.6%! especially as the other visas are only going up by about 3%. Aren't they screwing we oldies enough already? End of whinge - don't want the Aussies reading this thinking they have another whinging Pom trying to get in.

So, because of the silly man we first contacted, who by the way, gave us a load of b***it about the visa only taking 6-9 months - it means that instead of us being there for this Christmas with our grandson, it will have to be next year. Never mind, we'll get there in the end.

Jean