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866 - Protection visa (permanent)

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    PROTECTION VISAS

    Subclass 866 – Protection visa (permanent):

    This visa allows refugees and those who meet Australia’s complementary protection criteria to live, work and study permanently in Australia. You must be in Australia at the time that you lodge your application for this visa.

    KEY REQUIREMENTS

    Refugee or Otherwise Protected

    To qualify for this visa, you must be a refugee, as this term is defined by the Migration Act 1958i.e. you must be:

    • outside your home country AND
    • unable or unwilling to return to (or seek the protection of) your home country owing to a ‘well-founded fear of persecution’. This means that:
    • you must fear persecution based on your race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion (at least one of which must be the essential and significant reason for your persecution); and
    • there must be a real chance that if you were to return to your home country now, you would be persecuted for one or more of these reasons; and
    • the persecution must involve both ‘serious harm’ to you (for instance, a threat to your life or liberty, or significant economic hardship that threatens your ability to survive) AND ‘systematic and discriminatory conduct’ i.e. the harm must be targeted against you, and the persecutor’s conduct must affect you or members of your group in a way that singles you or your group out from the rest of the community.

    NOTE: If you have the right to enter and reside in another country in which you do not fear persecution, you must have taken all possible steps to exercise that right before claiming refugee status in Australia.

    Alternatively, if you are not deemed to be a refugee you may still qualify for this visa if you meet the complementary protection criteriai.e. if there are substantial grounds for believing that there is a ‘real risk’ that you would suffer ‘significant harm’ if you were moved from Australia to your home country.

    NOTES: ‘Significant harm’ is defined as the arbitrary deprivation of life; the death penalty; torture; or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

    There is NOT considered to be a ‘real risk’ of harm if it would be reasonable for you to relocate to a different area of your home country where there would not be a real risk of such harm; or you could obtain the protection of your home country; or if the risk is one faced by the population of your home country in general, rather than you personally.

    Bars on Application & Prohibited Visas

    You are barred from applying for this visa if:

    • since you last arrived in Australia, you have either been refused a protection visa OR have had a protection visa cancelled; or
    • you are a national of two or more countries; or
    • you have protection in a prescribed safe third country.

    NOTE: The Minister may lift this bar if it is deemed to be in the public interest.

    In addition, you may not apply for this visa if you hold (or have ever held) any of the following visas:

    • subclass 785 Temporary Protection visa
    • subclass 449 Temporary Safe Haven visa
    • subclass 786 Temporary (Humanitarian Concern) visa
    • subclass 790 Safe Haven Enterprise visa

    Bogus Documents

    It is critical that the information you provide in your application is accurate, and that any documents you supply in support of your claim are genuine. This applies particularly to documents that establish your identity, nationality or citizenship.

    The department of Home Affairs may refuse to grant you a visa if you provide a ‘bogus document’ in support of your application, or if you destroy or dispose of your identity documents.

    ‘Bogus documents’ include counterfeit and forged documents, those issued to a person based on a false or misleading statement, and those that were not in fact issued to the person who claims to hold them.

    Please contact us if you have any questions or concerns regarding your documents or previous visa applications.

    BENEFITS

    • You will be able to live, work and study in Australia permanently.
    • You will be able to access the Australian Government benefits.
    • You will be able to sponsor eligible family members for permanent residency through an offshore humanitarian Program.
    • You may be able to access 510 hours of free English Language classes.
    • You may be able to apply for Australian Citizenship.

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