This proposal would abolish the Temporary Sponsored Parent visa, which was announced in the 2017‐18 Budget and legislated as part of the Migration Amendment (Family Violence and Other Measures) Act 2018, and replace it with a new Long Stay Parent visa that would charge a quarter of the application fees of the current Temporary Sponsored Parent visa, indexed by consumer price index and rounded to the nearest $5.

An uncapped number of the proposed Long Stay Parent visas would be made available each year to parents of Australian citizens, Australian permanent residents and eligible New Zealand citizens to stay in Australia for periods of up to three or five years, with the following conditions.

• The visa would operate under the family sponsorship framework outlined in the Migration Amendment (Family Violence and Other Measures) Act 2018. The Australian child of a visa applicant would need to be approved as a sponsor prior to the parent making a visa application.
• Two sets of parents per household (up to a maximum of four) can be sponsored for this visa.
• Visa applicants would be required to hold and maintain health insurance from an Australian provider for the duration of their stay in Australia, and would not be entitled to public health or aged care services in Australia. Any debts to the Commonwealth Government accrued by the visa holder through access to these services would need to be repaid by their sponsor.  
• Visa applicants would be required to have an assurance of support from an Australian resident for the full duration of their visas.
• At the end of the visa’s duration, visa holders will be required to leave Australia for at least four weeks prior to applying for another visa.

The proposal would commence from 1 July 2019.