If you want your parents to come live in Australia, there are two main visa categories, non-contributory and contributory.
Zeke Bentley is a migration agent and lawyer at The Migration Place in Brisbane.
He explains that the main difference between the two type of visas is cost and wait time.
Let's look first at non-contributory visas, which include the permanent subclasses 103 and 804 visas.
That's the most affordable option, at around six thousand dollars for the main applicant and two thousand dollars for the dependant spouse.
But most applicants face a long wait, up to thirty years.
The other main option, that's quicker, but more expensive, is the contributory visas, subclasses 143, 173, 864 and 884.
They are granted within two years, but cost almost fifty thousand dollars.
If both parents are coming, the cost is almost a hundred thousand dollars.
But affordability is not the only issue, visa applicants must also pass character, health and balance of family tests.
Last May, the government proposed a new temporary sponsored parent visa that could last for up to ten years, but again, it's not cheap.
But after paying twenty thousand dollars and living in Australia for ten years, the parents would then have to go back to their home country, they wouldn't be allowed to stay in Australia.
This new temporary sponsored parent visa still needs to be voted in.
If it passes in parliament, it could be available by the end of the year.
