Go Matilda Parent Visas

22/04/2025

From SBS News: "Opposition leader Peter Dutton has vowed the Coalition will not cut Australia's annual intake of parent visas after sustained pressure to reveal where its planned cuts to permanent migration would come from. The backlog of parent visas has ballooned under this term of government. Despite increasing the cap, Labor has had little appetite to reform the system."

Opposition leader Peter Dutton has vowed the Coalition will not cut Australia's annual intake of parent visas after sustained pressure to reveal where its planned cuts to permanent migration would come from. The backlog of parent visas has ballooned under this term of government. Despite increasing....

10/04/2025

We have received details of the number of parent visas granted up to 28 February 2025 from the Department of Home Affairs.

See our blog post here for more info ...

We have received details of the number of parent visas granted up to 28 February 2025 from the Department of Home Affairs.

14/03/2025

As is customary – although perhaps not this early in the year, which is maybe indicative of the Federal Election being called imminently – Australia’s Immigration Minister has capped the number of parent visas that can be granted by the Department of Home Affairs in the program year, which for 2024_25 ends on 30 June 2025.

Parent visa numbers have been capped for the year ended 30 June 2025.

13/08/2024

"If overseas-born Australians want to sponsor a parent to join them permanently in Australia, they can go down one of two routes.

The expensive path is a contributory parent or aged parent visa with a price tag of close to $50,000 per person. The cheaper option is a standard parent or aged parent visa, which costs “only” $5,125, but takes much longer.

The government sets an annual cap of 8,500 parent visas, with about eight in ten granted to “contributory” applicants. This is 4,000 more places than the Coalition granted in its last year in office, but is still way too few to meet demand.

As a result, the logjam grows. On June 30 2023, Home Affairs had 140,615 parent visa applications on hand. A year later, it was 151,596."

Burke has only been in the role for a couple of weeks, but a backlog of more than 150,000 parent visa applications presents some tough choices.

12/07/2024

We have received details of the number of Australian parent visas granted during the year to 30 June 2024.

Details of the number of Australian parent visas granted during the year to 30 June 2024.

30/06/2024

New Visa Application Charges are effective from today (1 July 2024).

Charges for 1st VACs (payable when the visa application is submitted) have been increased in line with the Consumer Price Index (CPI), rounded to the nearest $5.

New VACs for the most commonly encountered parent visa subclasses are:

143 - $4,895 for the main visa applicant, plus $1,650 for a secondary visa applicant.
864 - $4,895 for the main visa applicant, plus $2,445 for a secondary visa applicant.
804 - $5,125 for the main visa applicant, plus $2,565 for a secondary visa applicant.
870 - $1,180 for each visa applicant

There is no increase in the 2nd VAC (which is payable immediately prior to visa grant) for 143s, 864, and 804s.

The 2nd VAC for subclass 870 visas has been increased to $10,605 for a 5 year visa, and to $4,715 for a 3 year visa.

These VACs apply to parent visa applications lodged from today.

04/06/2024

The latest data set has now been added to the Go Matilda Parent Visas calculator, which can be accessed here: https://www.gm-parent-visas.com/visa-processing-time-calculator/

As the preparation of the calculator involves costs (we have to pay the Department for the raw data, which then needs to be turned into a spreadsheet and input to the back end behind the website) we are considering ways of recovering these costs.

This might be by introducing a charge for all who aren't clients of Go Matilda Visas to access the calculator, or requesting names and email addresses so we can send information about our trusted associates and from whom we receive introducer fees.

Feedback from those of you who find the calculator of use will be much appreciated.

Welcome to Go Matilda Parent Visas and our Contributory Parent visa processing time calculator. When you enter your details into the calculator and the estimated number of visas you think will be granted each year the calculator will give an indication of when you can expect your visa to be granted....

02/04/2024

A Legislative Instrument has been published that caps the number of visas that can be granted to parents in the program year to 30 June 2024 as follows:

> Contributory Parent visas - 6,800
> Non Contributory Parent visas - 1,700

Of these 112 CP visas can be granted to Retiree pathway applicants; 13 can be granted to non-CP visa applicants by Retirees.

Retiree pathway applicants are those who are applying under the pathway that is available to subclass 410 and 405 visa applicants.

The numbers of parent visas granted in this program year up to 29 Feb 2024 are discussed here:

Information from the Department of Home Affairs - number of parent visas granted to the end of February 2024.

21/03/2024

We have details of the number of parent visas granted in the current program year through to 29 Feb 2024.

This indicates that there are still some 2,500 available visa grants available to Contributory Parent visa applicants for the year to 30 June 2024.

Information from the Department of Home Affairs - number of parent visas granted to the end of February 2024.

09/02/2024

Our latest blog discusses an issue of increasing significance to those waiting for subclass 143 Contributory Parent visas to be granted and who have a subclass 870 visa - the renewal of subclass 870 visas and the need to be outside Australia for at least 90 days.

We think this will be of interest to a few of you.

Renewal of subclass 870 parent visa. The requirement to be outside Australia for 90 days.

25/01/2024

The end of the Covid concession – and what it means for Subclass 143 visa applicants with Bridging Visas ...

25/01/2024

We have received up to date information from the Department of Home Affairs regarding the number of Contributory Parent visa applications that are in the system.

These have been entered into the database on our website, and can be used to estimate CP visa application processing times here:
https://www.gm-parent-visas.com/visa-processing-time-calculator/

A reasonable expectation presently is some 7,000 CP visas being granted annually.

Notably, almost 28,000 applications for Contributory Parent visas were lodged in calendar year 2023, which represents some 4 years of CP visa grants based on the usual number. Expectations of the withdrawal of CP visas is likely driving this surge in demand; a normal year would see 10,000 to 12,000 CP visa applications being submitted.

Welcome to Go Matilda Parent Visas and our Contributory Parent visa processing time calculator. When you enter your details into the calculator and the estimated number of visas you think will be granted each year the calculator will give an indication of when you can expect your visa to be granted....

14/12/2023

China's legacy 'one-child policy' is having a flow on effect for the children in Australia, who are facing waiting times of up to 30 years to bring their parents to Australia.

China's legacy 'one-child policy' is having a flow on effect for the children in Australia, who are facing waiting times of up to 30 years to bring their parents to Australia.

07/12/2023

Queue date confusion - mystery solved ... perhaps ...

Queue dates for Contributory Parent Visa applications.

31/10/2023

The latest contributory parent visa dataset has now been added to the processing time calculator on our website ...

Welcome to Go Matilda Parent Visas and our Contributory Parent visa processing time calculator. When you enter your details into the calculator and the estimated number of visas you think will be granted each year the calculator will give an indication of when you can expect your visa to be granted....

25/10/2023

Another good article from Abul Rivzi ...

In its attempt to repair the immigration system chaos caused by the Coalition, the Albanese Government has instead created a new set of challenges to overcome.

07/10/2023

Abul Rivzi (ex-Department of Immigration) always writes an interesting article ...

Calls for the parent visa reform are increasing, but questions remain over the feasibility of these ambitious demands, writes Dr Abul Rizvi.