普大喜奔！澳洲将升级父母探亲签证条款，中国护照入境免签时代也已进入倒计时！,臣信集团微信公众号文章

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移民到澳洲后，生活福利都变好了，但是，想与父母团聚，却不是件容易的事。如果想让父母来澳洲旅游，需要申请父母探亲签证；而若想将父母接来澳洲长期生活，则需要申请家庭团聚签证。很多人认为，家庭团聚天经地义，申请签证又有何难？

但事实上，澳大利亚的家庭团聚签证价格不菲，父母每人所需签证费用高达5万澳元。想要省去这笔高额费用，只交申请费，那么就需要排队等候。

等待时间是多久呢？答案是30 - 50年。

而且，与7175个境外父母付费签证名额相比，今年澳洲收费较低的父母签证只有1500个名额。
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针对这种会为移民带来“精神折磨”的弊端，连任的特恩布尔政府将加强现有的探亲签证条款，希望能使持有探亲签证的父母，在澳大利亚与家人相聚的时间能长达五年。

目前，凡递交申请父母探亲签证的澳洲公民和永久居民，将会获签长达五年时间的探亲签证，具体情况将根据提案决定。

“对于许多澳大利亚人，包括不断增长的南亚和中国的社区，与父母和祖父母和分离时所面临巨大的压力，我们能够理解，” 移民部长都顿说，“我们希望帮助家人团聚，并共度家庭时光，同时也会确保不会对澳大利亚的医疗体系造成额外的负担。”

申请加强父母旅游签证的游客，需要证明他们持有充足的澳大利亚私人医疗保险。他们或担保他们的家人，也将需要缴纳可以确保探亲计划成功的定金。

“我理解家人团聚对于华裔社区的重要性，相对以前，这项改变将会让祖父母、父母、小孩和子孙更长久地团聚，而不用长期辛苦地在中国和澳大利亚之间往返。我倾听了当地华裔社区的意见，并非常自豪能够将此项改动实施！”多元文化助理部长、里德区联邦议员Craig Laundy MP表示。

附The Turnbull Coalition Team官方稿件：

ENHANCED VISITOR VISAS FOR SPONSORED PARENTS

A re-elected Turnbull Government will enhance existing visitor visas to enable sponsored parents to visit their family in Australia for a continuous period of up to five years.

Currently, the parents of Australian citizens and permanent residents who have lodged a permanent parental visa application may be issued with a visitor visa of up to five years duration, on a case-by-case basis.

If returned to Office, the Coalition will remove the requirement for these parents to have lodged a concurrent permanent parental visa application.

“The Coalition recognises that many Australians, including our growing South Asian and Chinese communities, face particular pressures through the separation of children from parents and grandchildren from grandparents,” Mr Dutton said.

“We want to help families reunite and spend time together, while ensuring that we do so in a way that does not burden Australia’s health care system.”

Visitors applying for the enhanced parental visitor visa will need to demonstrate that they hold adequate private health insurance from an Australian provider. They or their sponsoring family will also be required to pay a bond based on the existing Assurance of Support Scheme.

These measures build on the Coalition’s strong record of visa reformto enhance our national economic and social prosperity including:

Three-year multiple entry tourist visas for Indian, Chinese and other nationals.

Premium processing in key markets, including India.

A 10-year visitor visa and on-line Chinese language application for approved Chinese nationals.

Confidence in Australia’s migration programme has grown under the Coalition, according to the Scanlon Foundation, as order has been restored to the border following Labor’s years of chaos.