Carer Visa
This visa allows a person to live permanently in Australia to care for a sick relative who cannot get proper care from family, hospitals, or nursing services.
Carer Visa (Subclass 116 and 836)
This visa allows a person whose relative is unwell and is unable to receive proper care from any other relative, hospital, nursing services, etc. in Australia, to live in Australia permanently and provide care and assistance to them. The applicant can only include their partner and their or their partner’s child or stepchild as family members in the visa application. The applicants, as well as the dependents in visa application, need to be outside Australia for subclass 116 and in Australia for subclass 836 at the time of lodging visa application and while visa grant.
Requirements:
- Either the relative who needs care and assistance or their partner must sponsor the applicant.
- The relative who needs to be assisted, the applicant as well as the family member who needs care all must live in the same house.
- The relative who needs care or assistance must be an Australian permanent resident, a citizen of Australia or an eligible citizen of New Zealand. The relative must be in a relation of either child, parent, brother, sister, partner, grandparent, grandchild, uncle, aunt, nephew or niece (step-equivalent included) with the visa applicant.
- The relative needing care or assistance must be suffering from a permanent or long-term medical condition (which is assessed by Bupa Medical Visa Services) for which they need the support of the applicant relative for a minimum span of 2 years.
- For health requirements, the applicant and accompanying family members must undergo medical examination within 12 months of applying for the visa, while for character requirement they must provide a police clearance from respective countries in which they have stayed for more than 12 months in the last 10 years after turning 16 years old.
- The applicant must be devoid of any debts to the Australian government before visa grant.
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