Can I get a visa for my relatives to migrate to Australia from Philippines?

Can I bring my relatives to Australia on family visas?

Can I petition my family to Australia like they do in the US?

Visas for aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, brothers or sisters?

Can I bring my relatives to Australia from the Philippines, China, Thailand, Vietnam or Cambodia? Can I get a family visa for aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews or brothers and sisters? How about a child visa for kids who are not biological kids but live with us? Can I petition family members like they do in America?

In short, NO it is not possible.

Australia does not have “family visas” or “family reunion visas”. You are not entitled to invite relatives to Australia to live permanently. You can always try to get tourist visas, but there are no avenues to allow them to migrate to Australia and become permanent residents.

You can bring biological children with Child Visas or Dependent Child Visas. You can bring parents on Temporary Parent Visas for 3 or 5 years, and in some rare circumstances you can bring a parent permanently (but it’s very expensive!)

So please do not let your relatives get their hopes up, believing you can invite them into Australia. You cannot, sorry.

Any other visas? Get professional advice from Down Under Visa right from the start. They specialise in Australian Partner Visas, Child Visas and Tourist Visas for couples and families where the applicant is from South East Asia.

Who are Down Under Visa? Who is Jeff Harvie?

Jeff Harvie and the Down Under Visa team have been doing this for a lot of years! Down Under Visa have brought thousands of couples to Australia from South East Asia over the years. Mostly from the Philippines, but we help increasing numbers of couples where the visa applicant is from China, Thailand, Vietnam or Cambodia.

And what this means is we see a lot of success….and we also see failures when people go it alone after talking to their mate, or their relative, or that minimal-care-no-responsibility Facebook group run by Steve and Maribeth based on their own visa application! One application, and they feel qualified to advise others! It’s not even LEGAL to do that!

Want to bring your sweetheart to Australia from The Philippines, China, Thailand, Vietnam or Cambodia? Get a FREE VISA ASSESSMENT today! It will take you five minutes.

Jeff Harvie is a Registered Migration Agent from Australia, but resident in Philippines since 2010 with his Filipina wife Mila and large extended family. Experienced with the Philippines culture, cross-cultural relationships and bureaucracy as well as Australian visas and Australian Migration Law, he writes with authority and fortunately with enough informality and humour that the average Aussie gets it!