It must be hard having parents overseas. Glad there is some options for those who would love their parents closer,

looks great

wow all these comments really paint a different story of this process!

A very informative article – thanks

I know lots of people who have brought other family members over to Australia.. It can be a long tedious process so be prepared!

My ex partner was German and wanted to stay in Australia. Unfortunately he had the option of going away into the dessert region of remote Australia or doing hard labour, because his qualification of landscaper wasn’t on the list of current required occupations. In his country he has to work in below zero conditions in the outdoors just to scrap by and afford what they call a flat. My ex partner who is a French dr of science also took me to court and tried to take full custody of my son. I wasn’t eligible for legal aide and paid $30,000 to get my son and was bankrupted by the kind dr and his foreign wife who are in comparison quite wealthy. I seen on the news at the time that refugees were being given free lawyers as apparently their human rights were denied. Where were my basic human rights? My own country has failed me twice now, so please excuse me if my heart doesn’t exactly bleed for the denial of new arrivals.

Oh this is such a very useful article!

I think this is joke saying bring your family parent into Australia. Even you have most family member. If you apply legal way you could have to wait 30 years buy the time your parent get PR. We might have to take approval letter to their grave yard. Even, we have more family member here parent visitor visa also get rejected. Regardless they have been in a Country number of time and left the country on time. I thinks this parent visa not for us who can offered over $100000 to bring them.

this is a good business of relationship made up of love and affection. Immigration is playing with the emotion. for non contributory option you need to spend around 3 t0 5 thousand dollars where as for contributory parent visa, it’s around 50 thousand dollars per person. So i had to think twice to see my parents permanently, to look after them and to share happiness living in Australia. This is 100000 thousand dollars mate. after everyday living expanse, it will take only 6 YEARS for me to save that 100000 dollars.
And i’m sure father is not last that long. you know what, if my father dies in the application process, the whole money will be forfeited. NICE emotoinal Gamble played by Australian Immigration authority.

De ar Sir, The foreigner who is first entering Australia and getting a job is by chance and not by choice.After fullfilling all formalities, my son secured a job on his own withinthe stipulated time and after two years he became PR and after 5 years he now citizen of Australia. Nodoubt with the help of Govt. liberal policies, he and his wife are employed. Now he wants to take care of his elderly parents who are staying alone leaving the only son at India, a member of common wealth country. Shelling out huge amount for bringing us to Australia is not worth, as we do not know who long we will alive in the world. Therefore the Govt. should lenient and do not put any financial burden for australian citizens who migrated fromcommonwealth countries to this country and give liberty to live with their children peacefullyin the tail end of their life. The govt should consider this request so that many aged parents will be happy.
N.S. KRISHNAMOORTHY

Thanks for this article. I have been wanting my parents to migrate and stay with us for many years but, unfortunately we don’t meet the ‘balance of family’ test. Which in fact is so annoying and unfair because we pay family support money to my family overseas every month and additionally incur substantial cost to pay for our young kids in Australia ( childcare, after school care, vacation care, nanny etc…). Entire deal/cost is like a double edge sword – we are drowning ourselves in cost and eventually one of us ( me or my wife) will have to give up working, which means the government gets no tax!!. Instead if we were allowed to bring our parents here ( as contributory parents – we dont mind paying the $80K or $100K upfront) but it would make our lives easy, our parents will be able to live with us and help us look after our kids AND, Australian govt gets assurance that both me and my wife will be working full time and paying TAX…

Hello, just a quick question, if you bring your parents from say the Middle East, how long before they can receive the aged pension?.

just one question, if you’re parents are from the middle east, how long does it take before they can receive the aged pension?.

From my understanding the Aged Parent Visa is not anymore available.
So this article seems outdated!

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  Oh! that is definitely interesting!

Interesting read, thanks for sharing.

My sister n law is bring her mum out her what a stressful thing it can be to do

interesting article, often have wondered this, I am 6th generation Australian so it is not something that has ever concerned me, but I have wondered especially when aged people move to Australia and the impact they have on the medical system.

aged parents visa is a better option but on visitor visa government put condition no further stay

My mother came to Australia as both myself and sister married Australians and have children ourselves. She had to pay over $40,000 for her visa and then have $10,000 in a bond with centrelink to prevent her from claiming benefits. Quite a joke really as we are from the UK, both myself and sister work for the government here and without my mum here we could not work. I am a nurse and my sister a probation and parole officer. We are all contributing to the country yet my poor mothers hard earned money over the years has been spent on living here. I see many immigrants be given housing, free medical help and wroughting the system yet by doing the right thing you lose out. The process was and still is stressful with the $10,000 held for 10 years hence she has to live with us. The one thing that is precious though that money cannot buy is her time watching her grandchildren growing up.

Thanks for sharing this interesting and informative article; definitely an interesting read.