Author name: Ali Hamza

The test that ends most parent visa applications before they start. The two ways to pass, which children count, and the trap that catches confident families.

If a visa has been refused or cancelled since you last arrived in Australia, section 48 of the Migration Act

The Subclass 884 is widely described as the quicker way into the onshore aged parent pathway. It isn’t. As at

The second instalment on a Contributory Parent visa (subclass 143) is AUD43,600 per adult applicant if you applied for the

Usually yes. Australia lets one person sponsor two partners in a lifetime, and the second sponsorship goes through like the

If you are reading this, you are probably sitting with two browser tabs open and a decision that feels heavier

You have found the person you want, and they need a visa. If your business has never sponsored anyone, the

The Annual Market Salary Rate, or AMSR, is the salary an Australian worker would receive for the same role in

The visa application charge is about A$6,135. Budget for that number and you will be roughly ten thousand dollars short.3

There is no such thing as “the” skilled occupation list. Australia runs four of them. The MLTSSL, the STSOL, the