Our Parent guide is filled with important information essential when emigrating to Australia.
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The Subclass 804 is ideal for parents over 67 to emigrate to Australia. The queue for permanent residency is very long, with the Department currently finalising applications queued around twelve years ago, and that is where the onshore route earns its keep.
In fact, for many of our clients, we turn the processing time to their advantage.
As an elderly parent, we are well placed to arrange your emigration in months, not years. Enabling you to live with your loved ones in Australia within just a few months.
The Aged Parent visa (Subclass 804) is the onshore, non-contributory permanent route:
For aged parents, you can live in Australia while your visa is being processed, with the correct structure to your case.
Four requirements shape the 804:
Health and character are assessed when the queue matures; the lodgement itself turns on age, family and your current visa status.
Cost: AUD 6,600, with the bridging visa itself costing nothing extra. The affordable route is onshore.
The queue: the same non contributory reality as the 103. The Department no longer publishes a year estimate and is currently finalising applications queued around twelve years ago. The difference is where you spend the wait.
Medicare note: Bridging visa holders in the parent queue have limited public health access; appropriate health cover is part of honest planning.
Discuss your eligibility and explore your options with a dedicated migration specialist.
Passport and birth certificate establishing pension age, plus relationship evidence to your sponsoring child.
Where every one of your children permanently lives, documented to Departmental standard: the test that cannot be approximately right.
Your Australian child’s settlement and status evidence, with an Assurance of Support plan durable enough to be finalised decades later at grant.
Completed when the queue matures. We keep the file grant-ready so your turn is never delayed by missing paperwork.
Same price, same permanent outcome, same queue, but the 804 is lodged onshore by parents of pension age, who then wait in Australia on a bridging visa instead of abroad.
Yes. We secure a visa that keeps you lawfully in Australia while your parent visa is processed.
Yes, with the correct bridging arrangement organised before each trip; never book first and ask later, as the wrong exit can forfeit your onshore position.
Access is limited on any parent visa. Secure medical cover for your time in Australia.
AUD 6,600: non-contributory pricing, roughly one-eighth of the contributory route.
Yes. The onshore contributory 864 remains open throughout.
A parent who has reached Australian age pension age at the time of application; younger parents should look to the 103 offshore or the 870 long-stay instead.
Comparing life in Australia to the United Kingdom.
Cairns collects nearly twice the sunshine of Carlisle and runs far warmer through the year. The national weather service in each country publishes these averages from decades of station records.
| Measure | Cairns | Carlisle |
|---|---|---|
| Sunshine per day | 7.5 hours | 3.9 hours |
| Days of rain a year | 119.6 | 152.6 |
| Year round daytime high | 29.1 °C | 13.2 °C |
Sources: Bureau of Meteorology; Met Office Australian source
Merimbula counts far fewer wet days across the year than Lyme Regis. Both columns come from the long term station averages published by each country’s national weather service.
| Measure | Merimbula | Lyme Regis |
|---|---|---|
| Days of rain a year | 71.7 | 128.1 |
| Mid winter daytime high | 16.7 °C | 9.2 °C |
| Mid summer daytime high | 24.9 °C | 20.7 °C |
Sources: Bureau of Meteorology; Met Office Australian source
Gladstone counts around half the wet days of Grimsby, and its winter days beat a Grimsby summer. Each figure is a long term average taken from the official weather station records on both sides.
| Measure | Gladstone | Grimsby |
|---|---|---|
| Days of rain a year | 61.0 | 115.5 |
| Mid winter daytime high | 23.2 °C | 7.0 °C |
| Year round daytime high | 27.5 °C | 13.9 °C |
Sources: Bureau of Meteorology; Met Office Australian source
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