Bluesmum

Thank you all so much for your positive response and kind comments. I will be in Perth in just under two weeks, looking forward to the sunshine! I am taking my brother with me for his first visit, then we are going to Bali for a couple of weeks for a holiday within my holiday. When we get back to Perth, time to source a migration agent and start some serious work! I will keep you informed of my progress. Thank you again.

Thank you so much for this advice. There is obviously so much to consider and legal advice is obviously very necessary! We will be very cautious !

Marisawright, thank you so much for your wise words of caution and advice. I am sorry your friend is having problems settling to her new life. As I have already spent quite a bit of time with my son and dil, I am happy that we have already passed the novelty stage of me visiting as a tourist, needing to be guided and entertained, and we have a much more mundane, settled existence together now. I already have some friends of my own who live quite local to my son, that I met online through a mutual hobby, and I socialise with them, whereas most of my uk friends are now no longer around! Once I know my application has been accepted and I have my bridging visa, I will sell my home here and this will enable me to either invest in my sons house, to extend and improve it which they would love to do, or pool our resources and buy bigger something to share! I hope this all sounds viable!

I would really appreciate some unbiased advice please. I am 82 years old, enjoy excellent health with no issues, apart from controlled age related blood pressure. I am financially secure with good pension income, (state and private) plus assets plus own my own detached property here in the UK. My only son has lived in Australia for over 40 years and would dearly love me to join him and his wife. The reason I gave not been able to consider this before is because I was full time career to my elderly husband who had dementia and Parkinsons. I now holiday with them in Perth every year for at least three months and I absolutely love everything about it! I am thinking to apply for either visa 804 or 864, but am wondering how realistic is it that my application will be accepted, when there is no chance of getting an 804 in my lifetime and only a slim chance for 864? Do they reject Aged Parent applications in these circumstances, or would I be allowed to stay indefinitely with a bridging visa on either whilst my application is processed? If the application is viable, I would engage the services of a migration agent to guide us.