Johnson

On 04/03/2022 at 15:37, LindaH27 said:

I applied June 2017 so it will be 5 years this June.  

 Applications dated June 2016 will have therefore taken 6 years by June 2022.

 Only applications after June 2018 have “queue dates” - those before use their lodgement date 

I think you are unaware of the huge numbers now in the queue and the reduction in annual quotas. With over 66k in the queue and annual quota of 3600, new applications made now are looking at  over 18 years for grant! 

You can see the queue here https://www.gm-parent-visas.com/contributory-parent-visa-application-numbers-updated/

However this only goes up to August 2021 -  so will be much bigger now !! 

 

 

Hi Linda

Latest visa grants and figures are now publicly available at The Administration of the Immigration and Citizenship Programs - 9th edition (homeaffairs.gov.au)

More than half of the full 4,500 via quota has been filled as of the end of Dec 2021.

On 10/03/2022 at 08:41, Arashtinbenmik said:

What is happening to everyone?!? No answer! No updates! 

I see the Department has published Feb 2022 report online now at The Administration of the Immigration and Citizenship Programs - 9th edition (homeaffairs.gov.au)

The latest figures of visa grants issued were included up to Dec 31, 2021, in Table 8.

2,443 visas of the 4,500 quota for parents, so they have done over half in 6 months!

3 hours ago, PiK said:

Johnson, how does one access this kind of information? I am sending blank email to parents@homeaffairs.gov.au but the auto-reply seem to have stopped!!

PiK type Test in the subject line or anything really and you should get the auto-reply message back. Check your junk or spam folder too as it may have been filtered out of your inbox? It is working.

40 minutes ago, Arti said:

There is a group on facebook - Parents are immediate family - it's a great support system and we are making a lot of noise on a lot of social media platforms to push for things to start moving on this front. There is a petition doing the rounds too to allow parents of Aussies to be exempted from the travel ban. It has 30,000 signatures already and it closes on 19th May so please get your signatures in!

https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN2535

1 minute ago, LindaH27 said:

I did try that group a while ago but left as it was too “noisy” and upsetting and previous petitions ( which I and my daughter in Australia signed)  got nowhere. The budget today shows them having to spend a lot of extra money on aged care and a doubling of the two year period to four years for some migrants and families  before they have  access to any government benefits - not 143 though as that’s already 10 years!.

Its unlikely therefore that by  making migrants  wait longer for benefits and having to spend more money on an ageing population means that the government would look favourably on allowing more old people in. They made mention of being more along the lines of attracting global talent. A mention was also made that the borders would likely remain closed till at least 2022. No mention of any caps for this year either as far as I can see  It’s also possible that they would only let parents in from low Covid/ nearly fully vaccinated countries as they have done with New Zealand, so that would also impact on whether parents could get in. They’re looking at it being mid 2022 before they repatriate most stranded Australians as well.  

There is also a senate enquiry into all parent visas going on which will report in August -  it’s fair to say they will wait to see what that says  

Only my interpretation!  Hopefully there may be a more definitive explanation of the budget by others on the forum? . .    
 

I do really wish you all well as I’m obviously in the same situation but the wait has  made me more realistic and pessimistic about the chances of getting to Australia any time soon. The majority of Australians do not want the borders open as they are living a relatively normal life unlike the rest of the world. 

Hi All ... Budget papers are online now. Not good news.

2 minutes ago, LindaH27 said:

Possibly quite a lot given that their processing time has gone to 30 years. It’s also possible that a lot applied for 103 when they were younger and working just to get in the queue, knowing from their queue date that it was going to take time and now they’re retired and maybe have a pension lump sum to put towards the cost of CPV? Plus the knowledge they keep their original lodgement date as well so anyone who applied for 103 with a date before May 2016 will go straight into the top of the CPV  queue. 
Who could blame them to be honest? The option is there to take. Now if we could only do the same and change from 143 to 864 with same date for us oldies,  we would at least be able to spend our time onshore with our families ! 

Now that's a great option, good thinking.

On 13/04/2021 at 11:48, LindaH27 said:

I can see the parent visa grants are not as many as there could have been but I’m more struck by the fact the partner visas were given a temporary one year huge increase to 77300 - and yet very few - 26993-  were actually granted!  A much bigger percentage drop than parents,  even though potential parents grants were originally reduced in planning levels for 20-21  and potential partner grants increased! 
 

You can see in this table at 31 Jan 2021 they had already granted 3468 visas for parents in totals.  Must be sitting on a few cases now if no grants left?

8 hours ago, Sherlock said:

 

@Johnson - Where is this screenshot from? Could you please share the link/source? Thanks!

 

This was from the parents mailbox reply you get when you send a test email today. Emai: parents@homeaffairs.gov.au   ...Very useful indeed.

5 hours ago, LindaH27 said:

Only one that’s changed for processing that I can see is for 804 and 103 - changed from Sept 2010 to Oct 2010. 173,143, 884 and 864 still on May 2016?

The queue assessment date has  moved to Jul 2018 from June but that’s only to give a queue date, which at the moment seems to be around 3 years later than  application date. . It has no effect on the actual movement towards current processing / granting of visas. 

Agreed, and we know now with contrib visas capped at 3600 this year and take off 125 visas for the Retirement pathway it only really leaves 3475 visas they could grant anyway.  It makes sense why no movement on the May 2016 dates now.  I wonder how many have been doing the switch from the parent queue to contrib visas?

Looks like queueing is moving now

Looks like queuing is moving now.

On 13/04/2021 at 11:48, LindaH27 said:

I can see the parent visa grants are not as many as there could have been but I’m more struck by the fact the partner visas were given a temporary one year huge increase to 77300 - and yet very few - 26993-  were actually granted!  A much bigger percentage drop than parents,  even though potential parents grants were originally reduced in planning levels for 20-21  and potential partner grants increased! 
 

It's a long journey ahead, found this as well from another FOI release on the Dept website in 2021, keeps on growing ...

I saw this online buried in a dept report on the Home Affairs website and the parent visa numbers are listed below.

Have a look at this report on the dept website and see Table 10 on page 29 with Parent numbers visa grants up to 31 Jan 2021. The link is Administration of the Immigration and Citizenship Programs paper (homeaffairs.gov.au) ... interesting report.

I get the feeling too, mine will be 10 years I reckon based on whats happened, numbers cut and lots of applications ahead of me according to monthly numbers released to Alan Collett.

No I mean IMMI are working on Aged Parent applications subclass 804 now and the 143s are stuck in May 2016 so you won't know until they start again requesting docs for June 2016 because they release by queued dates.  Noting they need to finish off those 143 cases onshore who are paid and waiting for visa grants so we will see some movement end of this month, April, and then July from what I have heard and seen on the forum.

They probably have a stack offshore applications too which have not finished yet based on what others saying here. I think the COVID-19 situation has changed how they run.

From IMMI website and mailbox reply, have a look at : COVID-19 visa concessions | COVID-19 and the border (homeaffairs.gov.au)

... The COVID-19 concession period started on 1 February 2020 and is a temporary arrangement. Check back here for updates about when the concession period will end.

Applicants who come to Australia after the end of the COVID-19 concession period will not be able to be granted their visa while they are in Australia.

Visas included in this concession are:

• Child (subclass 101) visa
• Adoption (subclass 102) visa
• Dependent Child (subclass 445) visa
• Prospective Marriage (subclass 300) visa
• Partner (subclass 309) visa.

Concessions for Parent visas

It is intended that a separate concession would also be extended to eligible Parent visa applicants during the COVID-19 period. This temporary concession is intended to commence on 24 March 2021. ...

I guess the concession period will end when the Global Travel Ban is lifted which based on all the travel talk in the media but who knows as the Govt talked about international travel again in 2022 ... logically it then seems onshore applicants get priority over offshore applicants which do not help my application lodged 13 November 2017. Years away with this COVID-19 thing and change in focus.

Queue release dates

As at February 2021, we have released for final processing:

• Contributory Parent visa applications with a queue date up to May 2016
• Parent visa applications with a queue date up to September 2010
• Aged Parent visa applications with a queue date up to December 2012

We only update this information when the latest final processing dates are available.

* updated 10 Feb 2021

Please note that the Department is required to process Parent and Contributory Parent applications in date order and within annual limits. We have identified some discrepancies in processing times between offshore and onshore visas in both Parent and Contributory Parent categories and are taking action to correct them.

* Onshore Contributory Parent (UU884 and DG864) visa subclasses have been assessed up to February 2017. Onshore Contributory Parent visas lodged from February 2017 onwards are likely to take longer to process while we action offshore Contributory Parent (CA143 and TU173) applications to bring the dates back to parity.

** Onshore Aged Parent (BP804) visas have been assessed up to Queued Date of December 2012. Onshore Aged Parent applications with a Queued Date of December 2012 onwards are likely to take longer to process while we action offshore Parent (AX103) applications to bring the dates back to parity.

Hi 143mag, there was an earlier post that IMMI had reached the quota for 143 visas with the onshore concessions to be handled on 24 March.  I heard from others you will go into the 1 July program year so possibly not much you can do now.  They are trying to fit 6 parent visa categories into the 4,500 visas before 30 June which is a big reduction in the scheme of what has been done in the past.  I think their current focus is onshore work and the concessions have stopped the movement for offshore applications for a long time.  They did update the website with what cases released from the queue too last month as well as showing more progress onshore.