Submission to the Department of Immigration and Border Protection on Introducing a Temporary Parent Visa Response to the Discussion Paper

This submission is a response to the Department of Immigration and Border Protection’s discussion paper on Introducing a Temporary Parent Visa. There are concerns with current protracted wait times, prohibitive costs and increasingly inflexible requirements for family reunion mean that many young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds living in Australia today are likely to be permanently separated from their parents and families. This submission focuses on the particular concerns and challenges being faced by young people in their efforts to access family reunion.