Aged Parent Visa Subclass 804 Policy
Aged Parent Visa Subclass 804 Policy
These are some of the relevant policies relevant to Aged Parent Visa 804 application.
Aged Parent Australia visa is a permanent visa, that lets an aged parent of a settled Australian citizen, Australian permanent resident or eligible New Zealand citizen move to Australia. The applicant must not have already applied for or hold a Sponsored Parent (Temporary) (Subclass 870) visa when applying for this visa, or if the applicant held such a visa then has left Australia since that visa ceased to be in effect.
The Aged Parent Visa 804 holders have full work rights to work anywhere in Australia.
If you have dependent children, they can also be included in your Subclass 804 visa application.
The application for Aged Parent Visa 804 is assessed in 2 stages. In first step, eligibility is checked and either add the application to the aged parent visa 804 queue or refuse it. If application is added into a queue then continue assessing the application when a place becomes available and a decision is made. Don't arrange to move to Australia until you are granted the visa.
Base Application Charge: A$5,125; Additional applicant charge for any other applicant who is at least 18: A$2,565; Additional applicant charge for any other applicant who is less than 18: A$1,285. The second installment (payable before grant of visa) is $2,065.
Standard Stream: 75% of applications - Not Applicable; 90% of applications with queue upto October 2010.
You cannot apply for this 804 Parent Visa if you have already applied for or hold a Sponsored Parent (Temporary) Subclass 870 Visa.
Aged parent means a parent who is old enough to be granted an age pension under the Social Security Act 1991. Aged parent age is calculated as follows:
Before 1 July 1952 - 65, Between 1 July 1952 and 31 December 1953 - 65½, Between 1 January 1954 and 30 June 1955 - 66, Between 1 July 1955 and 31 December 1956 - 66½, 1 January 1957 and later - 67
You must be sponsored by an eligible sponsor. Usually you would be sponsored by an eligible child. If your child is under 18, you can be sponsored by an eligible relative or community organisation, and your sponsorship must be approved before you can be granted the visa. If you apply for this Aged Parents Visa Subclass 804 as a retiree you don't need a sponsor.
You must meet the balance-of-family test. You meet the balance of family test if at least half of your children and step-children are eligible children, or there are more eligible children living in Australia than in any other single country. If you apply for this subclass 804 Aged Parent Visa as a retiree you don't need to meet the balance of family test.
You must be able to obtain an assurance of support. An assurance of support is to assure that you will not have to rely on government assistance after you enter Australia on this visa. The assurance is for you and any family members who come to Australia with you on this visa. The Department of Home Affairs will let you know when you need to provide the assurance of support. You must be able to obtain an assurance of support, unless you apply for the visa as a retiree. If you apply for the visa as a retiree, you don't need an assurance of support.
The eligibility for Aged Parent Visa Subclass 804 is to be given only to parents who have close ties to Australia. The Balance of Family test is designed to determine the extent of the parent's links to their children in Australia and ensure only those with close ties to Australia are eligible for parent visas.
The balance of family test is concerned with the numeric distribution and geographical location of the children of the applicant and the applicant's partner and, if applicable, of the former partners of either the applicant. The test does not consider qualitative matters such as the closeness or the breakdown of the parent-child relationships or cultural factors dictating which child should take care of an subclass 804 Visa Australia.
A parent will meet the balance of family test if at least half of the parent's children and step-children are "eligible children" or there are more "eligible children" than children living in any other single country. In short, "eligible children" include Australian citizens; Australian permanent residents usually resident in Australia; or eligible New Zealand citizens usually resident in Australia, compared to children who are resident in any other one country.
The children counted for the purpose of the balance of family test include all children and step-children of the parent or the parent's spouse or de facto partner. No assessment of the nature of the parent-child relationship is necessary. Children of the applicant (that is, the applicant who needs to satisfy primary criteria) born outside a partner relationship, such as a casual, polygamous or from one or more concurrent partner relationships, the primary applicant's children (natural and adopted) are counted in the balance of family test as such children are still children of the applicant. However, children of partner of the applicant born under any kind of relationships described above are not counted in the BoF test.
Deceased children are not counted in the balance of family test. In case of applicant's partner's polygamous or concurrent relationships, the partners cannot be recognised as a spouse or de facto partner, and therefore none of the partner's children can be counted in the balance of family test.
The requirements that the sponsor must meet at the time of application for Aged Parent Visa 804 Australia for which the sponsored person has applied are that the sponsor must be the child of the applicant; is an Australian citizen or an Australian Permanent Resident or an Eligible New Zealand citizen; and is settled and usually resident in Australia.
Assessment of settled at time of visa application can be considered met unless there are significant extended periods of absence prior to making the visa application (for example, the sponsor has been absent from Australia for two years immediately prior to the date of application, and is outside Australia at the time of application).
At time of decision, there are three categories within which a sponsor can meet the ‘settled’ requirement:
Category 1: If the sponsor has been lawfully resident in Australia for two years, (as at time of visa application) (discounting short trips outside Australia for up to four months), this is generally considered to be a ‘reasonable period’. A sponsor could come within this category even if they are outside Australia at the time the visa application is made.
Category 2: If the sponsor is currently in Australia but has been outside Australia for more than four months in the two-year period immediately preceding the date the visa application was made, they must provide some documentary evidence showing that they are currently settled in Australia.
Category 3: If the sponsor is not in Australia, and has not been in Australia for the full two years preceding the application (discounting short trips to Australia under four months), they must provide some documentary evidence as to the reason for the absence and establish that they meet the ‘settled’ requirement.
The evidence for being usually resident somewhere may be seen in a variety of factors, including; maintaining a home in a particular place, going to work there, owning property, business or other interests there, having family and other ties in the place. Absence from a place at a particular time does not automatically mean it is not a person’s usual residence, as the person may have already established usual residence there in circumstances where their absence is still consistent with having usual residence in that place.
These are some of the relevant policies relevant to Aged Parent Visa 804 application.
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