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WHAT IS THE ASSISTED RETURNS PROGRAM? The Assisted Returns Program provides non-citizens with an option to voluntarily depart Australia. We listen to your needs, respect your choices, and give you options to return home. If you are deemed eligible, expenses related to your approved travel arrangements will be covered under the Assisted Returns Program. Your assigned Case Worker will also help you obtain travel documents and organise your travel bookings. This service is offered on behalf of the Department of Home Affairs. Assisted Returns
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From the Australian Newspaper: Special welfare payments and visa extensions will be offered to non-residents stranded in Australiawho lose their jobs and are unable to return home. The Australian understands the Morrison government is working on a plan that includes a form of support payment for temporary migrants who stand to lose their jobs in industries such as tourism and hospitality that face being decimated by the shutdown. While Australian workers will come first, the government will seek to place highly skilled temporary migrants — without a method to return to their country of citizenship — into high-demand areas, including …read more
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Partner and Child visa holders (except Prospective Marriage visa holders) can come to Australia. You will need to self-isolate for 14 days, at home or in a hotel. https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/…/curr…/novel-coronavirus
The Department now has a protocol for this situation. Immediate family members who do not hold a permanent visa need to contact the Department of Home Affairs before travelling using Australian Immigration Enquiry Form on the COVID page: https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/help-support/departmental-forms/online-forms/australian-immigration-enquiry-form Scroll down and select the nearest DHA office at the bottom of the page.
Key points: All non-residents will be banned from arriving in Australia from 9pm on Friday It replaces earlier travel bans on foreigners coming from China, Iran, Italy and South Korea Australians who return from overseas will still need to isolate themselves for a fortnight Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced the enhanced border measures in response to the coronavirus outbreak. It applies to all non-citizens and non-residents. Australians will still be able to return from overseas but they will be required to self-isolate for 14 days. The Government had previously banned foreign nationals from coming to Australia from China, Iran, …read more
From midnight on Friday, only essential travellers will be allowed into Tasmania without going into quarantine. Any non-essential traveller into Tasmania will be required to go into a period of 14 days of quarantine. Essential travellers will be those that are important to our health effort, or to an emergency situation, or those that keep our trade links running. Tasmanian residents who are returning to the state after midnight on Friday will also have to comply with the quarantine. https://www.smh.com.au/national/tasm…19-p54bn2.html
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