What do you think? As a migrant myself I have to confess I’m not that on board with expecting aged parents to be part of the package when migrating over, even my own aunts and uncles who are currently going through the process via their own children.
However, it is cruel of the Australian government to keep providing “hope” and taking people’s application fees when they have understandably little intention of increasing the aged migrant intake. I think they should cut the crap and stop offering these visas if reducing aged migrant intake is their intention. Just keep on the long term visit visas for parents, whack on a mandatory private health insurance clause if needed.
I think the main issue here is the difference in estimated wait times on the website vs the actual wait times which is many years longer. How hard is it to provide accurate and up-to-date information for people to make a decision when applying.
Yeah since they only grant a set number each year this should be an absolutely trivial thing to show. Number of applicants / number accepted per year.
Being transparent is a very difficult thing to do. :/