nataliee

Hello everyone, so glad to find a parents visa topic so everyone can shared and updated their exps as information on immi website are quiet limited. Anw, I just found this link it showed migration programme report and I was so disappointed to see 2016-2017 year there was only 6218 contributory parents visa granted out of 7175 places was available. To be worst, this year 2017-2018 there was only 6015 visas granted out of 7175. Even Parents Visa they only gave 1356 visas granted out of 1500 available (it means if they are keep reducing the visas granted each year parents visa would be about 39 years waiting for someone apply Jun-2018) From some sources that I've read, apparently they are aiming to reduced contributory visa level so that only 5000 visas will be granted yearly. They don't want too many migration to Australia and they are trying to reducing all permanent visas. That is so terrible, so if someone applying now for CPV (Jun2018) they would have to wait 7+ years as visas granted each year are reducing but people applying each year are more and more?? Here are the report link for the last 9 years https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about/reports-publications/research-statistics/statistics/live-in-australia/migration-programme