Pratap

Hello,

When applying for visitor visa (subclass 600) there are couple of questions that i encounter.

1. Does the applicant have health insurance arranged for their stay in Australia?

2. Does any applicant intend to enter a hospital or a health care facility (including nursing homes) while in Australia?

The applicant here is my baby who is under 1 year of age. I planned to take health insurance once the visa is granted and before arriving in Australia. But there are 2 questions on  immi when filing new visitor visa application. If i answer "NO" and proceed, will there be any impact on the process? The applicant may need to visit hospitals for baby vaccinations. There is already child visa under process for the applicant.

Thanks in advance - Pratap

5 hours ago, starlight7 said:

I'd say look East/South East rather than West with Melbourne. The whole place is very child friendly, childcare centres just about everywhere and new ones opening all the time. You need to go and check them for yourself to see which one suits.  Go unexpectedly and you will get a true picture though these days they are pretty well regulated and you shouldn't hit any problems. As Quoll says, Melbourne is huge and it takes literally hours to travel from one side to the other so you should get some idea of where you want to be beforehand ideally.

Hey, thanks for your reply. Yeah i you are right i will need to visit the places myself and experience it for once.

On 05/08/2019 at 05:24, Quoll said:

Don't bring your child on a tourist visa, wait for the child visa. If he's there as a tourist he could have  trouble with medical care especially if his child visa takes a while. 

Where will you be working? That usually has more influence on where you choose to live. Is your $2kpm budget just for childcare? That'd be budget rates - for little kids you're looking at $120-150 per day. But if your child has a PR visa you could be eligible for some child care benefits. There are loads of good child care centres, you'd need to be more specific about the area you might want to live in  - Melbourne is a huge place. However, good child care centres often have very long waiting lists. Most of them are pretty good at dealing with a wide range of kids - if you're worried that your child may be annoying I'm  sure they will talk to you about how you and they should manage that.

6 hours ago, excitedbutterrified said:

We used long daycare (7AM to 6PM) up until January 2018 as both parents were working, so a little out of date, but we were out in the suburbs, in a place called Glen Waverley / Wheelers Hill.  Here we payed $109 per day, per kid - and with 2 in full time, we payed over $1000 per week, ouch. 

Shopping around, some childcare places were slightly cheaper, some (much) more expensive, but we found one we really liked and suck with it for 3 years. Also bear in mind if you are on a PR visa and working (plus some other conditions), you can claim child care subsidy, we didn't qualify as we were only temporary residents, but this can provide a huge discount so your budget may be better than you think. Don't worry about your child being "annoying", I'm sure they only annoy you!

Melbourne is great for families with little kids, loads to do, play areas everywhere, very child friendly. We found a good community of other families with similar aged kids, and were never bored. My wife joined some mum and baby groups and once our eldest was old enough, she joined an aussie rules club (auskick) which was fantastic.

On suburbs, normal rules apply, the closer to the city centre you live, the higher rent you will pay, and for less space. As you move out, housing gets more spaced out, but there is less to do. You have to find your balance. You can get away without owning a car if you are very central, but out of the centre, a car is essential. We had a big 4 bed house with a swimming pool and paid $600 per week rent.

Glen Waverley is quite far from the city, being 40 /45 minutes by train, but (like most melbourne suburbs) is quite vibrant with nice restaurants / cafes -  much quieter than central suburbs but still great. We lived there because we fell in love with the park (Jells Park) and the density of housing is quite a bit lower than the more central suburbs. Its a very "Asian" suburb, which suited us fine, but some people can find that jarring if they have lived all their lives in a majority white environment (We loved living in a multicultural place where our kids mixed with kids of all different colours, and you get the advantage of amazing Asian restaurants etc... but our parents found it uncomfortable to be in a minority for once - maybe its a generational thing?)

We always hankered to live closer to a beach, as during the summer months we would be at the coast most weekends, but that also comes at a premium price, depends on personal preference.

For groceries, everywhere will be well covered by the supermarkets, (coles, woolworths, aldi) but also look for independent Asian supermarkets for fresh fruit /veg which are much cheaper , and seem to be everywhere too. A trip to Queen Victoria markets in the city was like a day out, and you could buy pretty much any food item you can imagine!

Anything else you want to know about living in Melbourne with kids, please ask.

WOW! Thank you for providing detailed information.

I see. Thank you.

I know that was a stupid question . If we know that the visa is granted and we need to go offshore and visit again to activate the visa benefits but the question "do we get enough time to plan and travel offshore and come again" still remains.

There is a mention of health insurance for visitor visa. Is this a any health insurance that we can take or there is anything else we need to consider? With "no further stay" condition, can we apply again from onshore (this was answered by Westly Russell but i couldn't follow).

Ok....As per the immigration website, the processing time for child visa 101 is 14 to 19 months. How do we know that the grant of child visa is blocked because the child is onshore? And do we get enough time to plan travel and re-enter Australia?

Sorry if i wasn't clear. We applied for child visa 101 from offshore and if we apply for visitor visa (tourist stream) for a child and visit Australia we cannot get the child visa granted because we are onshore? Not even if we mention about in-process child visa in the visitor visa? And what about the no further stay condition? As per the visa condition here, there might be a condition on the visa but not sure if we can re-apply for the visitor visa.

Thank you for your patience 

I really appreciate your response.

You mean "visitor visa with 'no further stay' condition"???

And if we get the child visa granted while we are onshore, then do we need to come out of Australia and re-enter in order to activate the child visa?

Thanks for the reply.

The child is offshore and yes the subclass is 101. We have not any applied for any other visa (it is just the child visa 101). My wife and my child is offshore and i am in Australia but we want to take our child to Australia so we can stay together (my wife already have PR). We are exploring different visa option for our child considering we have already applied for child visa 101. So far, we found visitor visa is suitable one but not sure which stream.

Hi there,

I have applied for a child visa for my baby who is 5 month old (as of august 2019). Me and my wife are planning to apply for a visitor visa while we get the child visa granted (my wife is also PR holder). I have gone through different visitor visa streams but could not find the one suitable. But these visas have a condition 8501 (health insurance) and 8503 (no further stay).

Can i apply for a simple health insurance for a child that covers the hospital expenditure or there needs to be any specific thing like amount limit?

Does the condition 8503 pose any risk on the stay in Australia?

Can we apply for another visitor visa (or any visa) once the visitor visa is about to expire so that our child can stay with us?

Thanks in advance

Hello friends,
I have applied for child visa for my kid but now me and my wife are planning to apply for a tourist visa for my kid. My wife already have PR. We have been discussing how situations will be once we come there. And after all that, we are confused. We need suggestion\advice from experts or from someone who already experienced it.

My son is now 4 months old and we are planning to travel somewhere in december\january (by that time my baby will turn 9-10 months). My wife may not work till our kid turns 1 year. After that we are planning for a daycare.

Which daycare will be good and affordable (our budget 2000/month)? Is the daycare good enough to handle annoying kids :)? Which suburb is suitable to settle (considering the nearby vegetable market, grocery stores, good public school, etc)?

Thanks in advance,
Pratap

Thanks for taking out time and replying.

I just want to make sure that my family won't face any problem when i apply for tourist visa (when the child visa is under process) and when my family is in Australia.

Hello friends,

I have applied for a child visa (subclass 101) for my kid which is under process. But now i am planning to apply for tourist visa for my child. Can i do that? Can my child (who is 4 months old) travel to Australia on tourist visa when the child visa is under process?

*Me and my wife have the Australian PR.

Thanks in advance,

Pratap