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Australia's new parent visa 'absolutely unfair' say migrant communities

اسټراليا ته د والدينو راوستلو لپاره نوې ويزې فعاله شوې

After years of campaigning for the new temporary parent visa so overseas grandparents can come to Australia for longer, many say they now feel excluded.


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After years of campaigning for the new temporary parent visa so overseas grandparents can come to Australia for longer, many say they now feel excluded.


Melbourne couple Inderdeep and Harpreet Sandhu were looking forward to Australia's new temporary parent visa, so their parents in India could spend more time with their three children.

Now, they say, they have been left wanting.

“It is absolutely unfair because what the initial terms and conditions promised were ... they have not been stuck to,” Mr Sandhu told SBS News.

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