Close friends of ours, she Thai now with PR, married to an Australian.

As mum is now quite settled here, she would like to bring her teenage daughter here, who at present is living in Thailand with grandparents on the fathers side.

Thai Father apparently has no objection and has remarried.

Can the daughter firstly come here on a Tourist Visa and go through the PR stages here under family migration....or must she apply in Bangkok as is the case with partners. I imagine the daughters Tourist Visa may as in the case of most be labelled "No further stay"

I am no expert on Australian Immigration even tho i have had my experiences with them over the years but i understand if she comes here on a tourist visa she will not be able to apply for further stay or Permanent residence status . She should have been listed as a dependant on her mothers visa application so family reunion would be the way to go.

I would only consider a Tourist visa if she wants to come for a visit to see if she likes it in Oz before making a decision to come permanently.

Thanks for that.

She would have been listed as a dependant on the original application and would have been able to migrate within a time frame of her mothers successful PR approval (and under the same original cost of her mothers application)

However from what I learn from many of our Thai friends who are living here, they themselves like to settle down here initially in their new country, before taking the double whammy step of migrating particularly a teenager at the same or similar time of the mother.

My own thinking is that this daughters proposed migration probably needs a fresh high cost application in Thailand.

I was wondering though if there is a way of not requiring this additional fresh off shore application.

When the mother initially applied for her visa in Thailand, many details of her dependant child were required including even the daughter needing a full medical, so humanely one would imagine that the later migration of a dependant child should be an easier process than requiring a brand new application.

Is Family Migration a slightly easier and less costly process than the initial parents application? I'm not sure.

Edited November 10, 201114 yr by fishhooks

fishooks

The visa subclass varies depending on whether the child lodges onshore or offshore.

If lodged onshore, the visa will be S/C 802 which costs $2960.

If lodged offshore, it's a S/C 101 the cost is $1995.

The application forms are 40CH & 47CH.

If mother and daughter are sure about migrating, I would apply for a tourist

visa and hope it doesn't have the "no further stay condition" (extremely doubtful

in my opinion) and lodge onshore. If unsure, apply for a S/C679 and let her look

around and decide.

Here is a booklet on child migration: http://www.immi.gov.au/allforms/booklets/books2.htm

Regards

Will

Thanks for that.

She would have been listed as a dependant on the original application and would have been able to migrate within a time frame of her mothers successful PR approval (and under the same original cost of her mothers application)

However from what I learn from many of our Thai friends who are living here, they themselves like to settle down here initially in their new country, before taking the double whammy step of migrating particularly a teenager at the same or similar time of the mother.

My own thinking is that this daughters proposed migration probably needs a fresh high cost application in Thailand.

I was wondering though if there is a way of not requiring this additional fresh off shore application.

When the mother initially applied for her visa in Thailand, many details of her dependant child were required including even the daughter needing a full medical, so humanely one would imagine that the later migration of a dependant child should be an easier process than requiring a brand new application.

Is Family Migration a slightly easier and less costly process than the initial parents application? I'm not sure.