This visa allows a relative of an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident to to move to Australia permanently to take care of their relative with a medical condition. The applicant must be out side Australia while applying for this visa.
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This is a permanent visa that lets a relative of a settled Australian citizen, Australian permanent resident or eligible New Zealand citizen to move to Australia, to take care of their relative with a medical condition.
The visa holders have full work and study rights to work anywhere in Australia.
If you have dependent children, then they can be included in your visa application. You may be eligible to sponsor other eligible relatives to migrate to Australia after you are granted the visa 116.
Carer Visa Subclass 116 is lodged while the applicant is outside Australia, Whereas Carer Visa Subclass 836 is lodged while the applicant is inside Australia, and is thus granted bridging visa, allowing them to lawfully remain in Australia, while their application is under processing.
You can travel to and from Australia as many times as you want for 5 years from the date this visa is granted. This is as long as the travel facility on this visa remains valid. If you want to travel after the initial 5-year travel facility then you will need to apply for and be granted a Subclass 155 or Subclass 157 Resident Return Visa(RRV) so you can re-enter Australia as a permanent resident. You can also apply for Australian citizenship and get an Australian passport, which then you can use to leave and re-enter Australia.
Base Application Charge: A$2,175; Additional applicant charge for any other applicant who is at least 18: A$1,090; Additional applicant charge for any other applicant who is less than 18: A$545. Second installment (payable before grant of visa, unless exempted based on severe financial hardship): A$2,095.
Standard Stream: Carer visa applications with a queue date up to 11 October 2017.
You must be sponsored for this visa by an eligible relative or relative's partner for your first 2 years in Australia, and your sponsorship must be approved. You and your Partner must never have held or sponsored someone else who was granted a Remaining Relative visa (Subclass 835 or Subclass 115) or Preferential Family visa (Subclass 104) or Family visa (Subclass 806).
- Only a need arising from an existing medical condition of the Australian relative or a member of their family unit who is also an Australian citizen, Australian permanent resident or eligible New Zealand citizen can be considered.
- The Australian relative or a member of their family unit must undertake a medical assessment by a health service provider.
- The health service provider gives the relative a certificate, which includes an impairment rating.
- At time of decision on the visa application, that impairment rating must equal or exceed the rating specified for this purpose.
- Decision makers are bound by the health service provider certificate and impairment rating.
- In order for their visa application to be valid, the intending visa applicant must lodge, with their visa application, evidence that the relative has commenced the health service provider assessment.
- The health services provider currently specified is Bupa Medical Visa Services.
You must be able to obtain an assurance of support. An assurance of support assures us 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. Sponsorship obligations last for 2 years from the date when the applicant first enters Australia on the visa.
The sponsor must agree that, for the first 2 years the visa applicant is in Australia on this visa, the sponsor will provide the applicant and any family members who come with them with: support, accommodation and financial assistance. An assurance of support is a legal commitment to repay the Australian Government any welfare payments made to a visa holder or family who come to Australia with them.
The requirements that the sponsor must meet at the time of application for the visa 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.
This is a permanent visa that lets a relative of a settled Australian citizen, Australian permanent resident or eligible New Zealand citizen to move to Australia, to take care of their relative with a medical condition.
This subclass 114 visa allows an aged dependent relative of an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident to move to Australia permanently. The applicant must be outside Australia while applying for this visa.
This subclass 838 visa allows an aged dependent relative of an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident to stay in Australia permanently. The applicant must be inside Australia while applying for this visa.
This subclass 115 visa allows a remaining relative of an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident to move to Australia permanently. The applicant must be outside Australia while applying for this visa.
This subclass 835 visa allows a remaining relative of an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident to stay in Australia permanently. The applicant must be inside Australia while applying for this visa.
This subclass 836 visa allows a remaining relative of an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident to stay in Australia permanently. The applicant must be inside Australia while applying for this visa.
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