There are growing calls for changes in this type of visa, with tens of thousands being left in limbo amid 40 year wait times.
With long wait times, there are calls for the system to be overhauled.When Perth resident Sarah scours a Facebook group she’s part of, with scores of others in her situation, she finds countless messages from people in desperation.“You'll find hundreds if not thousands of people who are just completely confused,” Sarah, who did not want to give her surname, tells SBS News.“They're sat in queues, they're waiting. They're looking every day. They're counting the numbers.
In 2019, she encouraged her aging parents living in the UK to apply for the $47,955 contributory parent visa in a bid to have them close to her in Australia. "While likely to be contentious, this approach might provide cheaper, fairer, faster and more certain access to a form of family reunification than is currently available,” the report said.
Speaking to SBS News, Mares said the political realities mean that redefining parents as an immediate family for the purpose of these visas would mean increasing the migrant intake by 20,000.
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