Australian Education and Migration Services
12 Apr 2016
Only Australian citizens can get the rights but permanent residents cannot get the 5 rights: 1, the right of vote; 2, to be elected; 3, to join the army; 4, to be elected as members of the jury; 5, to work in some special government (such as intelligence staff).
The permanent visa, means the Green Card that Australia is essentially a valid visa, generally only allow the holder to 5 years out of Australia. You must renew after expiration, the renewal request in the past 5 years. And once got Australian citizenship, regardless of whether you live on Australia, will be maintained for life Australian citizenship, and are subject to the protection of Australia’s overseas embassies and consulates.
The Green Card holder was sentenced to 12 months or more in Australia, that will be cancelled the Green Card. The Australian citizenship cannot be cancelled.
If both of parents have one of Australia’s Green Card holders, as s child born in Australia, then the child will be an Australian citizen. If the child born in China, then the child will be a Chinese citizen, and you can also apply for an Australia Green Card. If one of the parents is an Australian citizen, regardless of where the child born (such as China), the child will be Australian citizen.
To get an Australia Green Card doesn’t mean that naturally acquired Australian citizenship, and it doesn’t mean you lose Chinese nationality, but continue to hold the Chinese passports, keep the Chinese nationality. In accordance with relevant of Chinese laws, these people are called overseas. Once a permanent resident has become an Australian citizen, is called Australian Chinese. Whether it is immigration countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, or non-immigrant countries such as European countries and Japan, the law generally requires permanent residents to meet certain conditions before being eligible to apply for citizenship in the country, namely to obtain nationality of the country.
According to the Australian Constitution, Australian citizens can have multiple nationalities. This indicates that when the citizens of other countries apply to join the Australian nationality, country of origin as long as the law allowed, he (she) can still retain the original nationality. Conversely, when an Australian citizen to apply for another nationality, he (she) may also retain Australian citizenship. The citizenship hold the dual nationality is worth nothing that in the enjoyment of rights in the country at the same time, there is the responsibility to fulfil the obligations of the citizens of the country.
After receiving the Green Card, if you meet the certain conditions, you can apply for Australian citizenship. When applying for naturalization residency requirements to be met: the first 4 years to a total of naturalization have lived in Australia for 3 years, but at least before applying for naturalization has received a full-year stay in Australia for at least 9 months, and in 4 years prior to the application which has to live for at least 12 months as a permanent residency in Australia, but it allows that there are total of 12 months doesn’t exceed the departure time of 3 months.
1. Application: Applicants can download the nationality application from online. After filling out the application form and sent to nationality office with the necessary information.
2. Interview: The aged 16 or over of applicants must participate the interview. The purpose of interview is to confirm the idea that you know the rights and obligations of an Australian citizen, and can use simple English (applicants is 50 years old or more don’t need to comply with this item).
3. Nationality ceremony: After the interview, you will be notified within 2 months, according to the time and place to participate in “citizen certificate presentation ceremony.” In the ceremony, the applicant will conduct the naturalization sworn, to receive Australian citizenship certificate.
Once you have the citizenship certificate, within 2 weeks you can get an Australian passport. With an Australian passport, you can go to all of Western countries without visa, including the United States and Western Europe. Note: each person requires a separate application for naturalization, cannot apply with family together. As the wife has lived 4 years, then the wife can apply. If the husband doesn’t live in, then he cannot apply.
In 1910, Australia started building a social security system; it was the first one of the best countries to implement social welfare social system in the world. After the new immigrants arrived to Australia, they can get free health care and parent allowances and other benefits. However, the new permanent residence visa holders can apply for unemployment benefits, a comprehensive emergency relief and student allowances and as same as other benefits in the first 2 years, such as free primary and secondary education, student loans, free medical care and so on. After holding the Green Card for 2 years, you can get all of the benefits of Australia. (Australian permanent residence visa holders are free to settle in New Zealand, New Zealand get all the rights if a green card).
1. Pension: Australian get the pension that the men is over 65 years old and the women is over 60 years old. Although recipients wife has no qualify for a pension that can also receive the pension. Whether can receive the pensions or how much can receive, that will be according to the person’s income, assets, and meet the requirements of living conditions. Annuity and inflation linked, revised every 2 years. Pensioners can get discounted of medical and other health-care treatment. The government provide the pensioners other preferential, including the reduction in transportation costs, local taxes, and electricity and car registration fees.
2. Family child allowance: Raising one or more children can get subsidies, but must go through to obtain the subsidy on household income and property surveys. Family allowances are usually made once every 2 weeks, to the main guardian, usually is to the child’s mother. Children receive sponsorship fees according to an annual income of families with children circumstances.
3. Disabled and sick benefits: the pension because of disability due to illness and people who receive temporary subsidies, receiving rehabilitation treatment and training, parent or guardian because to child physical, mental or psychological disability and need to be at home nursing and care of persons will disabilities are patients can receive benefits. If you have employed or being training, but cannot use public transport for disabled persons can receive transportation subsidies; and long-term home caring for severely disabled pensioners or those receiving other benefits can get a caregiver subsidies.
4. Unemployment benefits: for unemployment that is looking for career opportunities or is receiving education, training or placement of the unemployed, to enable then to get enough income to maintain themselves and their families the living payments, there is a “ looking for work subsidies” and “re-start allowance: and so on; the amount of the unemployment benefit is currently about 410 AUD every two weeks. New immigrants arrived in Australia for two years that can be eligible to apply.
5. Pregnant grants: living in Australia, and the pregnant women whose child was born in Australia, can apply for pregnant grants. As the way to Australia to settle and the child born on board, and the foreigners live in Australia for more than one year, can get the subsidies. Every child can get one-time childbirth allowance.
6. Universal access to free health care: Medicare is Australia’s national health insurance plan, the majority of new immigrants can instantly get free medical services to NHS patients may also be entitled to free treatment in public hospitals. The national will pay for the patients: doctor’s fees, surgery in public hospitals, hospital (including drugs and diet) costs, in this circumstance, medical practitioners and hospitals would unify checkout with the government, the patient only need credit card without paying. Although the national doesn’t pay for medicine costs for patients, but the government will pass the “medicine subsidy program” for many pharmaceutical prescription subsidies.
In addition, there is also the study allowance, the remote area allowance, the nursing allowance, the spouse allowance, the spouse allowance, the telephone allowance, the rent allowance, the transport allowance, the children allowance, etc., but most of the new immigrants have to wait 2 years to be eligible for the part of the social insurance subsidies, including unemployment benefits and study grants. After the new immigrants arriving in Australia can get the benefits include pharmaceutical allowance, the child sponsorship fees, the special benefits, the college scholarships and tuition reimbursement interest-free loans of other items.
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