Rodders123

Is your mum old enough to apply for the onshore 864 contributory aged parent visa? She has to be Australia state retirement age I believe. You May have to pay application charges again but she could then stay with you on a bridging visa until the permanent one is granted

Thanks Ramot. So it’s fair to say that if we arrive in Australia without causing suspicion e.g. having a return ticket booked, then lodge an onshore 864 application, we should then be automatically given a bridging visa until the 864 is granted. (years later) Our evisitor 3 month visa wouldn’t have the no further stay condition as I’ve never seen that condition on our previous evisitor visas. Thanks

I just assumed that when we lodged an onshore 864 visa application that we would be ‘interviewed‘ by immigration or someone from the visa processing department to check that we didn’t arrive on a tourist visa with the sole intention of staying there or am I over complicating it

Thankyou so much for your reply. Your comments make a lot of sense. Wonder if immigration would question us about our home in the U.K. which we would probably have sold before we left for Australia

Hello all My first post on this excellent forum. Me and my wife would like to join our son and his family in Australia but would prefer to apply onshore for an aged contributary parent visa. We are the right ages and our son has PR status. How can this be done without immigration throwing us out because we’ve gone on a tourist visa with the intention to stay there? We would have to sell up before we went because if the application for an 864 visa was accepted then we’d be on a bridging visa and couldn’t realistically go back to the U.K. to sell our house. Don’t really want to apply for an offshore one as we would spend years on tourist visas going back and forth. The New Temporary Parent Visa not suitable neither as your sponsor (child) has to have been in Australia for 4 years He’s been there just short of 2 Has anyone successfully applied for an onshore contributory 864 visa? I would love to know. Thanks in anticipation

Hello all My first post on this excellent forum. Me and my wife would like to join our son and his family in Australia but would prefer to apply onshore for an aged contributary parent visa. We are the right ages and our son has PR status. How can this be done without immigration throwing us out because we’ve gone on a tourist visa with the intention to stay there? We would have to sell up before we went because if the application for an 864 visa was accepted then we’d be on a bridging visa and couldn’t realistically go back to the U.K. to sell our house. Don’t really want to apply for an offshore one as we would spend years on tourist visas going back and forth. The New Temporary Parent Visa not suitable neither as your sponsor (child) has to have been in Australia for 4 years He’s been there just short of 2 Has anyone successfully applied for an onshore contributory 864 visa? I would love to know. Thanks in anticipation