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Quotas for Partner Visas

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#1 ·
Hi all,

My fiancée and I were talking this morning about the cutting of immigration numbers.

From the Home Affairs website, our understanding is that there are no quotas or queuing for partner visas. However, I recall seeing posts on this forum that gave the impression that these visas do have quotas.

We'd like to know whether there are indeed quotas. If there are, we assume that reducing immigration numbers would likely increase the waiting times.
 
#2 ·
Hi all,

My fiancée and I were talking this morning about the cutting of immigration numbers.

From the Home Affairs website, our understanding is that there are no quotas or queuing for partner visas. However, I recall seeing posts on this forum that gave the impression that these visas do have quotas.

We'd like to know whether there are indeed quotas. If there are, we assume that reducing immigration numbers would likely increase the waiting times.
It is my understanding that there are unofficial quotas for the various overseas posts. That's why you often see a slow down in processing (if that's possible) towards the end of the financial year (May/June), as targets are being reached.

Hopefully with the expected change of government, more resources will be allocated to the processing centres.
 
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Hi all,

My fiancée and I were talking this morning about the cutting of immigration numbers.

From the Home Affairs website, our understanding is that there are no quotas or queuing for partner visas. However, I recall seeing posts on this forum that gave the impression that these visas do have quotas.

We'd like to know whether there are indeed quotas. If there are, we assume that reducing immigration numbers would likely increase the waiting times.
When you see that there were 47,825 partner visas issued each year 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17, you know that they have annual limits, official or not.

And they reduced it last year to 39,799, with the intention to keep the reduction this year and into the future.

Demand for places in 2018-18 was 54,037 compared to 57,138 applications in 2016-17.
At 30 June 2018 there were 80,539 applications in the pipeline.

The not so straightforward applications seem to suffer most with even longer processing times for the higher 25%.
 
#4 ·
They can't make an official quota because of human rights. People have human rights to be with their family. But they make unofficial quotas by increasing processing times. Since LNP has been in power (post Tony Abbott) they have increased processing times a lot. It also means a lot more people are on bridging visa for longer times which is not really good for society tbh as it just means a lot of people here are 'in limbo'. They falsely claim they have stemmed immigration using visa/PR approval numbers but really there are more people on bridging visas than ever before!
 
#6 ·
Part of a news story today..

The number of employer-sponsored skilled migrants allowed into Australia is being bumped up slightly to 39,000, but family visas remain at 48,000.

And..

Between 2001-02 and 2010-11: 379,415 people migrated to Australia on a Family visa.

That's an average of 38,000 per year.

The last 5 or 6 years have seen a substantially higher number of grants, at over 48,000 per year.

Unfortunately, an even higher number of applications has caused the numbers on bridging visas to have to wait longer, or for the local partner to go and live in the applicants country, so the family is not split.
 
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Part of that story, about current government policy ...

  • And yet, throughout its term in office, the government has kept permanent migration planning levels at the highest, in terms of absolute numbers, in Australia's history
 
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According to the 2019-2020 budget breakdown, there will be 108,682 places in the skilled stream and 47,732 places in the family stream, including a combined 3,586 places for child and special eligibility streams.

Family Stream Total 47,732
Partner 39,799
Parent 7,371
Other Family 562

The size and composition of the Migration program is set each year through the Australian Government's Budget process.

Migration program planning levels

The Migration program is designed to achieve a range of economic and social outcomes.

The program is set annually, with the total places available capped at a ceiling of 160,000 for 2019-20.

The total program is broken down into the following streams:

Skill - designed to improve the productive capacity of the economy and fill skill shortages in the labour market, including those in regional Australia. The majority of the places in the program are in the Skill stream (108,682 places in 2019-20, 69.5 per cent of the program).

Family - is predominately made up of Partner visas, enabling Australians to reunite with family members from overseas, and provide them with pathways to citizenship (47,732 places in 2019-20, 30.5 per cent of the program).

Special Eligibility - this covers visas for those in special circumstances. This can include permanent residents returning to Australia after a period away, and is the smallest stream (236 places in 2019-20).

At least 3,350 Child places will be available in 2019-20. (Child places are not subject to a ceiling)​

https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/what-we-do/migration-program-planning-levels
 
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That's interesting numbers.
 
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