Adam111

Well that's actually the point of my final sentence, this isn't possible. The blowout in applications vs spots over the past 5 years effectively means that no new applicants now will ever be granted the visa. Even if a child is willing to accept full financial responsibility for their parent(s) there's no way this visa can actually (effectively) be granted. They need to either: A) Pull this visa from list of visas or at the absolute minimum provide a realistic timeline - it's misleading and dishonest to suggest this is a realistic option for most people anymore. The website quotes 5 years when it's actually >20 years now. Immi is just collecting >$4k from people on the misguided belief this visa can be possibly granted to them based on the info immi is providing, which is no longer true. B) Amend the visa to make it far more 'contributory' in nature. i.e. either massively increase the fee, increase the AoS period, or add some additional conditions that shift the financial cost more onto the sponsors. If costs can be more adequately recovered then I believe family's ought to be permitted a realist opportunity to reunite. Not every argument needs to be a strictly economic one 'how much can this person add to Aus GDP over their lifetime' - there is a human element to humans and in many cultures looking after one's parents in old age is really important. Our country is one of migrants after all.

Gee the rug has been pulled in just a few short years. So we now have over 120k application for the contributory visa in queue and at current rates of ~6k approvals per year the wait for anyone new applying is 20 years+ based on current numbers. So in 10 years it's gone from 1 year processing to 20 years. In a year or two it will probably be up to 30 years like the non-contributory visa. The criminals at Immi are still happy to take everyone's first instalment application fee though which people are applying for based on their website still quoting 67 months. Effectively this means unless you have young parents with no health concerns (<60 years) there's no point bothering applying for a contributory visa, they'll either be dead or fail the final medical when they're asked to do it in their 80s or 90s. New migrants will never be able to fully reunite with their parents regardless of how much financial responsibility they're willing to guarantee it seems. T