Plans to Increase Income Requirement for Parent Visas Scrapped
Australians wishing to sponsor their parents from overseas welcomed recent news that an increase to the income threshold for parent visas introduced earlier year was scrapped. The Social Services Minister was forced to back down on the new rules as a result of heavy lobbying from various community migrant groups. A number of online petitions were circulating from April this year urging the Minister to scrap the increase to the income requirement, including a petition conduct