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3 years if over 75, 5 years if under 75. The current threshold amount is $35 000.

If your mom is no-one left except you, have you considered the last remaining relative visa? Although I think it may be a long wait for this, and as soon as you apply to extend a tourist visa, she will probably have a "no further stay" clause appended to her tourist visa.

Thanks Learjet, I couldn't remember exactly. We will apply for an aged parent visa hopefully on shore eventually. Difference in this and a remaining relative visa where time is concerned is not a lot of difference and it actually does not matter to us how long it takes. She has emphysema and although it is not very bad right now, she is already 76, we don't think that long term she would pass a medical, so the longer the better for us. She will live with us, has reciprocal healthcare due to being from the UK, and we will supplement this with the necessary private care. The main thing is that we would like her with us as long as possible as she really has no one else. I'm well aware that they will probably attach a no further stay clause to her visa, but the other alternative was to run back and forth between here and NZ to "reactivate" her eVisitor visa every 3 months anyway, and that would expire in July anyway, so we would have had to try make arrangements then as well. We will have to send her back to the UK for maybe 3 months and then bring her back on a visitor visa. She is currently on a bridging visa as her medicals for the tourist visa have been referred to the MOC which we knew would happen, so at the moment we are just waiting to see what happens.

She will not be dependent if she has any sort of income ie. pension

This is not altogether true. Dependency is not only income based, and is also dependant on how much the income is and how much you spend supporting that person as well. If the person has an income that is below the breadline threshold and they rely on you for additional financial and emotional support they can claim dependency.

What are the rules re one parent child, my mum has rheumatoid arthritis, she is in her 60's, are there conditions re her healthcare and could she purchase medical care out there.

Hi Cathy

Not sure where you are in the process. If you are just starting and your mom is dependant on you in any way then you could put her on your application right from the beginning, but for this you would have to prove dependency but this can be done. Keep in mind though that with this way if she fails the medical you all fail, so no one would then get a visa. You would then have to try remove her from your application which I am not sure they will allow..suppose it depends on your CO. If she is not dependant on you, then you would have to go over and do the time and then bring her later. She could probably be with you a lot of the time if you get her tourist visa's before you apply but it would also necessitate travel. as far as healthcare goes you did not say where you are from. I am going to assume the UK. If this is so then Australia has a reciprocal healthcare agreement with the UK. This means that she would get Medicare benefits immediately in Australia. Basically all this means is Doctors, Hospitals and Medicine on PBS. She could take out medical cover this side but would likely have a waiting period on her policy for the Rheumatoid Arthritis.

This all being said the issue would be the medical. If she does not pass the medical for PR at whatever stage they request it, she will not get a visa. The medical though is basically dependant on how much it costs the Australian government over a certain period of time and I suspect they are a bit more lax with the contributory parental visa as they have an assurance of support lodged for this so in essence it isn't really costing them a fortune. They have an amount and if they think her care will cost more than that amount during a 3 or 5 year period (not sure which it is), then they will fail her. This being said we chose to not list my mom as a dependant when we did our PR application due to her having emphysema and we did not know if she would pass the medical. I could kick myself now because I have heard of so many parents that have passed with diabetes and this and that. We are now sitting working towards that magic 2 year period because we listened to an immigration attorney in Sydney who gave us wrong advice. My mom has no one left except me,and is currently in country with us on a visitor visa, and we have applied to extend this to a tourist visa but who knows for how long they will grant that. Somewhere along the line she will have to leave and come back in.

Good luck

Does anyone know how long it would take to "deny" an application for an 804 aged parent on shore visa due to you not meeting the criteria of having been resident for 2 years before the application? We took some possibly "bad" advice from an immigration lawyer who I can't get hold of again and need to lodge for my mom but have not been resident for the required 2 years (in fact well short...that's a whole other story). The advice I was given that because it was in country we could lodge an appeal to the tribunal which would take a while..all in our favour as we did not know if she would pass the medical test. We were under the impression it would take at least 2 years for them even to look at it but from what we have heard recently they will reject very quickly if we don't have the 2 years in? Anyone have any ideas? If so we need to make other plans as my mom is totally dependant on us, has no money of her own, gets a 1/4 UK pension as she has been out of the UK for 50 years and will probably keel over and peg on the spot if I tell her she needs to go back to the UK for a year before we can even lodge the application as she knows no one at all there anymore and is 75 years old

edited to add: Who is the best immigration attorney for Parental visas that I could get advice from?

Thanks