🇦🇺 Australia · Permanent residence

Parent and Contributory Parent permanent visas (subclasses 103/143; aged equivalents)

A route sponsored by a settled Australian citizen, permanent resident or eligible New Zealand citizen child, with the non-waivable balance-of-family test. The ordinary subclass 103 has lower fees but an extremely long queue; contributory subclass 143 costs more and may have a shorter, though still multi-year, queue. Permanent parent visas usually require an Assurance of Support, while onshore aged-parent streams have separate age and lodgement-position rules.