sunshinesyd Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 My husband and I are already living in Australia with our 2 year old son who was born in the UK. We have been here just over a year on 175 skilled permanent resident visas and my son is on a child visa 101. After recent news headlines about parents being deported because their children have been diagnosed with autism, It has got us slightly worried and I am keen to hear from any legal experts or other families who have been in a similar situation as to if a child gets diagnosed with autism on a visa (it is a permanent resident visa) would there be any issues when it comes round to applying for citizenship for them and us in a few years time? Would it be better to wait to get a diagnosis if there were signs until after citizenship. Any advice would be great. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scattley Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 The media is currently talking about someone on a temporary 457 visa (although most are missing out that fact) As you know the medical requirements are more stringent for PR visas than Temporary visas....so whilst autism is "ok" on a temp visa, moving to a perm visa they are not granted. If you have a PR visa already then you are fine...moving to citizenship is no issue. Temp visas are temporary. You know that went you apply for it but most people expect that they will be able to move to a PR visa with no issue...that is their mistake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ali Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 You don't have to have medicals for citizenship, in the recent case, I saw it reported that she had her application for a skilled visa refused Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunshinesyd Posted April 4, 2015 Author Share Posted April 4, 2015 Ok great, thanks. I had thought that was the case - but you never know and would hate for our Citizenship or Resident Return visas to ever be refused based on something like this, so wanted to be sure of where we stood. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quoll Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 If you suspect your child has autism then early intervention is key, not to be delayed! Not even for citizenship. However as you're permanent residents it's a non issue. Even if you were temporary, your child's long term well being and chance of a reasonable independent life should come ahead of a desire to live in a particular place I would have thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunshinesyd Posted April 4, 2015 Author Share Posted April 4, 2015 If you suspect your child has autism then early intervention is key, not to be delayed! Not even for citizenship. However as you're permanent residents it's a non issue. Even if you were temporary, your child's long term well being and chance of a reasonable independent life should come ahead of a desire to live in a particular place I would have thought. I totally agree that early intervention should not be delayed, and we currently have great early intervention services in place in relation to speech therapy, daycare and OT with him but nobody, including his paediatrician, have given us an "official" diagnosis which was what I was worried about getting. He may not have autism - just a speech delay, and we are doing everything we can to help him progress, but I wanted to find out whether getting an official diagnosis would be detrimental to us staying in Australia, as if so we could delay getting any kind of official diagnosis if that was the case. I would never delay getting help and intervention for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrussell Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 My husband and I are already living in Australia with our 2 year old son who was born in the UK. We have been here just over a year on 175 skilled permanent resident visas and my son is on a child visa 101. After recent news headlines about parents being deported because their children have been diagnosed with autism, It has got us slightly worried and I am keen to hear from any legal experts or other families who have been in a similar situation as to if a child gets diagnosed with autism on a visa (it is a permanent resident visa) would there be any issues when it comes round to applying for citizenship for them and us in a few years time? Would it be better to wait to get a diagnosis if there were signs until after citizenship. Any advice would be great. Thanks. You will not have an issue applying for citizenship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johndoe Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 Agreed with other posters. No medical questions are asked for citizenship and my son was diagnosed before I applied, although it was a non issue anyway as he had citizenship by descent from his mother Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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