Jeff Harvie’s Thought Of The Day
Protection Visas! aka Refugee Visas! Are these an option for applicants from the Philippines? Or from Thailand, Vietnam or Cambodia?
People get desperate! They want better lives, and they look at their immediate surroundings and situation and can’t think of a simple solution….so they try to be clever. They hear that Australia accepts refugees! They hear the stories about how you arrive on Australia’s shores and they put you up in a flash hotel and throw money at you! Not true, but the rumors sound good! So they think that if they can get into Australia on a tourist visa they just need to go and claim asylum like they do in the movies!
Protection Visas are for those who face real persecution in their homeland and fear for their lives and liberty! Stay, and some crazies are going to try to kill you! If you’re:
- Gay in a fundamentalist country where they will throw you off a roof
- Christian in a country that doesn’t allow you to practice your faith and will kill you or imprison you over it
- Part of an ethnic group in a country where you are at risk of genocide
Scenarios like these, and you can probably apply!
How about where the following apply?
- Scenarios where you can move to another town and your problems will disappear, eg where your ex-husband is threatening you
- Being gay, following an unpopular religion or being part of an ethnic group where a handful of people don’t like you
Don’t waste your time!
If it’s not an extremist country where life and liberty are in real danger, and where moving a few hundred kilometers away would solve the problem? They will NOT grant a protection visa!
Questions: Please search our BLOG menu or Visa Knowledge Base
Questions about visa types we don’t handle, or about countries we don’t apply for visas from, will not be answered, Philippines to Australia visas for couples and families only.
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