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Thanks for that, feltron_cq.

Thanks Ramot, when did you have to do the medical? At the time of application or just before grant? Thats what I am trying to establish.

Any other experiences on with timing for the medical on the 804?

Hi Marisa, Do you have any details on the preliminary medical? I haven’t heard of this before. Do you have direct experience of this? Would the British pension be frozen at the point of Visa grant or Visa application? I can't imaging he lose British residency at the point of application? Or on the grant of the bridging visa?

Hi all, I’m interested in people’s experiences with applying for the Aged Parent Visa onshore (Subclass 804). My father has landed in Australia on a tourist visa (ETA) and now wants to stay indefinitely. He is 85 years old and suffers from a few conditions like most people his age. Whilst we could apply for the new 5/10 year tourist visa (Subclass 870) - offshore - or the contributory parent visa (on-shore), both will require medicals, the former pretty much immediately, the latter after approximately 4 years. Our migration agent is advising us with regards to the 804 that the medical won’t be required until it is ready to be granted (some 35 years on present estimates). Can anyone share experiences of what timelines they were asked to sit a medical (i.e. at application, just before grant or somewhere in-between). Genuine cases, please, no kind but speculative responses