Visa to Australia on compassionate grounds

[AlmostAway]

Posting here for traffic in hope of ideas.

My SIL, DH sister, was diagnosed with a very aggressive cancer about four months ago. She has been given just three to six months. It's all very sad. However, DH is beside himself because she lives in Australia. He is an Irish passport holder, but has been asked to pay AU$24k for the tourist visa.

Does anyone have any idea how he might be able to visit her on compassionate grounds? I have checked other visa types to no avail.

Thanks in advance

I think OP must have spoken to her DB again and discovered it truly is only 20 bucks, not 20k,and has disappeared in embarrassment

Waiting for the update 🧐

Let us know op. At least we can be on the lookout for dodgy websites or understand the immigration circumstances better.

I have actually done all of the following: Perth to Sydney took 2.5 actual flying time

I don't think you factored in the 2 hour time difference

24k for a visa? If this is the case how on earth do people manage to go back packing around there?

OP isnt going to come back for one of the following reasons

Realised her dh has been on a scam site/misread or something else people suggested and took embarrassed to admit it

Her dh is an international drug dealer/has a love child he hasnt paid for over there/ some deep dark secrets in his past and dealing with that

Found out he was trying to get some money together to disappear in Australia and live off the land

In all seriousness, its probably the first.

Literally a 5 min search on google has just told me this is bollocks. Most expensive is about 1-2k. The average is about 300 to 400 aus dollers

I suspect au$24k is the amount owed to the Australian government and they'll quite happily give him a free visa once he's paid his debt

I have absolutely nothing to add but I really need to know the outcome of this A$20 v A$24,000, which seems like a negligible difference .

Enlgish in OZ here!

24K is round about the cost for contributory visa for over 45s .., thats a permanent visa though with medical and working rights... it would also be a bigger process then just simply applying for a tourist visa.

So odd!

Nobody realised they are on a scam website - that’s what makes them work!! I would apply through a different site or ring and speak to somebody to double check

Does he owe tax or something from a previous visit @AlmostAway?

I can't even believe it's a scam. Surely a scammer would try and get a couple of hundred for a Visa. Asking for 24k, nobody would pay that, so no scammed money earned.

I think it's much more likely that he's been categorised as applying for permanent residence or for a working visa for a year or more. we will never know as the op will never bother to come back to the thread once the mistake is found.

Another living in Australia dying to know the outcome of this! 😂😂😂

@AlmostAway what happened in the end?

I should add that DC and I were applied for and approved without cost through the same process, it is just him.

There is something really not right about this! Please come back OP. Hope you have resolved whatever it is and sorry about your SIL.

I have actually done all of the following: Perth to Sydney took 2.5 actual flying time

I don't think you factored in the 2 hour time difference

No because I was talking about the length of the flight. Someone tried to say it takes 12-14 hours to fly to Auckland or Singapore from Australia and I was pointing out that some of the flight times are very short (and therefore may be do-able by the sick sister, although it obviously depends on her state of health). Not sure the (small) time difference comes into it and Perth and Singapore are on the same time zone.

Perth to Sydney is usually much longer than 2.5 flying time everytime I have done it

The time from airport to airport was longer. Airlines don't want to pay for delays so they make the flight schedule way longer than it actually takes in terms of taxi time, possible waiting for a pier at the other end etc. But the actual flying time once you are in the air is a lot shorter.

Another much shorter and closer to home example would be Gatwick to Jersey. Schedule says an hour but you are only in the air for 30/35 minutes.

Anyway it doesn't matter, I guess we'll never get to the bottom of this story, sadly!

I'm going to Australia next year and have applied for and been granted my visa on the website that [echt] mentions. It lasts for 3 months. You need to go back on that website and reapply. They email back within 24 hours or tell you why you have been rejected.

Another confirming the ETA is free and easy to get online for up to 3 months.
We also applied for a residency visa, which I completed myself, and it was less than a grand.

It was AUD776.00 actually.

a guy i work with has an irish passport and i just checked with him , as i know he was in australia less than 2 years ago she said he went on the official website filled in form and it was approved very quickly, he has told me his wife had to fly over there early spring ( i didnt know this -as her sisters husband has a serious workplace accident and he was touch and go, flown to a specialist hospital 1000's kilometers away, the sis needed someone to look after kids , anyway his wife didnt have the 24 hours to wait for it, quickest way was to fly to london staright away, so rang embassy who said no problem book earliest flight you can and return to me with flight info and it will be fastracked..

My sister didn't get her Visa granted, she applied for a slightly different one and it went through instantly

A certain % get pulled, a much bigger percentage go through with zero oversight

There is no fucking way you have to stump 24k for a 3 month ETA

By the way I'm not sure how legal that is