ramot Posted August 7, 2016 Share Posted August 7, 2016 (edited) We will be in the position of being able to apply for a parent visa in September, as 2 of our children have followed us to Australia, one is a citizen and other has been here for 4 years with PR granted last Sept. We have been on the 410 visa for 13 years, next renew date is 2020, then valid for further 10 years. All our income comes from UK. I am keen to apply, but my husband sees no need to. Among other reasons says we will be taxed more here? One question is, if we apply, do we just stay on our 410 visa until if or when a parent visa is granted? or would we be on a bridging visa and would that be detrimental? Is the tax higher here? A bonus would be we would be entitled to Medicare, but at a cost of approx. $50,000 each, so not sure what other benefits there would be, apart from peace of mind in my case. we had a meeting with Peter Dutton recently who assured all of us, ( if you can believe a politician) that as there are only approximately 3,500, 410 visa holders in the country there are no plans to change the conditions, so really need to analyse the pros and cons. Should we apply which is the better visa? in our early 70's no real health problems, obviously on shore. Edited August 8, 2016 by ramot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Lombard Posted August 8, 2016 Share Posted August 8, 2016 Hi Ramot, Your husband's right that if you obtain permanent visas then your tax regime will change but that's just a matter of forward planning. More important is that you're not likely to live forever and that your access to the best government support for health benefits, nursing home/supported accommodation arrangements etc will be severely compromised by being subclass 410 holders without access to Australian social security etc. This is also a problem which many applicants for the non-contributory parent visas face as they get older on their bridging visas. Minister Dutton clearly didn't mention those issues in his discussions with you :-) Cheers, George Lombard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramot Posted August 8, 2016 Author Share Posted August 8, 2016 Hi Ramot, Your husband's right that if you obtain permanent visas then your tax regime will change but that's just a matter of forward planning. More important is that you're not likely to live forever and that your access to the best government support for health benefits, nursing home/supported accommodation arrangements etc will be severely compromised by being subclass 410 holders without access to Australian social security etc. This is also a problem which many applicants for the non-contributory parent visas face as they get older on their bridging visas. Minister Dutton clearly didn't mention those issues in his discussions with you :-) Cheers, C George Lombard thank you George. They weren't raised to give him credit. It was a general meeting arranged by our local fairly large group of 410 visor holders, almost all of who don't have family here, to see if there was any hope/chance of a way to PR. as we have all lived here well over 10 years. Have to give him credit for giving us non voters a good 1 1/2 hr meeting with him. We will follow up his statement that we could expect an answer should he be returned to office. Let you know if that happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABD Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 We have the same dilemma Ramot and similar circumstances.I would also like to know if we apply for 468 do we wait on bridging visa or existing 410 unto a permanent visa is granted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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