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Subclass 602 - Medical Treatment visas will be moving to ImmiAccount from 2 March 2019. What are the benefits of internet applications over paper applications besides saving forests of paper, and when and where is an internet application deemed to have been lodged?
Read MoreThe anticipated pathway to a permanent visa for Subclass 405 – Investor Retirement visa and Subclass 410 – Retirement visa holders have been released. A permanent visa will only be eligible to those who held a retirement visa on 8 May 2018 and who have not held another substantive visa since that date other than a retirement visa. Instead of creating a new subclass, existing Subclass 103 – Parent visa and Subclass 143 – Contributory Parent visa subclasses will be amended to accommodate.
Read MoreAfter a media article reports on the injustice of not granted an elderly man a parent visa, it does not consider a viable alternative to this application, which is a Subclass 602 - Medical Treatment visa.
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