Recent Parliamentary Report

Parliamentary Report and Immigration Lawyer Sydney

A recent parliamentary report claims the family visa system is inefficient, overly complex and about 30 years out-of-date. Amid other issues, the immigration applicants endured extremely long waiting times and an unreasonably high financial cost.

Migration lawyers familiar with this recent report have called for its demands to be heeded. The family visa system needs a long-term strategy for updating its processing. The present human cost shows the system is failing. People spent many years in Limbo, waiting for possible Visa approval, or refusal. Changes need to be made urgently.

The report says that family reunions needed to be presented as an essential aspect of a successful Visa program. The past debate over immigration, even recently, has tended to see the issue as a balance of family reunions versus social, economic, and humanitarian interests. This has overlooked the experiences of individual people within the migration program. The report shows how poor those experiences were. The migration process was long, expensive, and difficult to navigate.

Both the law and the migration process have been criticised as hard to follow. They include processes and definitions that are difficult for lawyers to follow. It is even more difficult for non-specialists and those who only know English as a second language. Apparently, the IT system used by the Department of Home Affairs is also poor, only making matters worse.

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