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写了个petition to senate 的联署信模版，有没有谁知道怎么放到网上让大家签名，这样发邮件的朋友可以把联署请愿信作为附件发给参议员，想让哪个愿意帮我们present到参议院的参议员动用disallowance motion，联署请愿信可以作为参议院开会时的支持材料：
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Senator's Signature：
To the Honourable President and members of the Senate in Parliament assembled:
1. The petition of the undersigned shows:
1.1 Background Legislation Information
On 26 March 2018, the Minister for Social Service Dan Tehan has introduced a legislative instrument to amendment the financial criteria for Assurance of Support in which all Australian Citizens and permanent residents who wish to spouse their overseas parents or relatives to come to Australia under a relevant visa program have to meet. The legislative changes / instruments come into effect almost immediately from 1 April 2018.
(The legislative details can be found here: https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2018L00425)
1.2 The new changes compared with the previous criteria
The new changes compared with the previous criteria are summarised as below:
(1) Significant Uplift in Income Thresholds - taxable income requirement of assurer(s) are almost doubled up from the previous requirement:
Example 1: a single non-married individual now requires A $88,291 to be eligible for AoS for both parents, whereas according to ABS figure, a full-time adult average weekly ordinary time earnings is A$1,567.90 or A$81,530.80 per annum. This demonstrates the unreasonableness of such dramatic income test change. Please note the previous standard for this scenario was approximately $46,875.
Example 2: a married couple with 1 child is the highest % of family composition, whereas Median Weekly Income of Family is A$1,734, or A$90,169 per annum. This is way less than the AoS income test of A$120,664.93 should they want to sponsor one pair of parents.) Please note the previous standard for this scenario was approximately $61,756.44.
Example 3: An adult assurer with a kid to provide assurance for one parent has to have taxable income for at least $58,860.94 annually (previous required amount only a little bit over $30,000). If this assurer has married or has a de facto partner the income requirement will be significantly increased to $88,291.41 annually regardless of whether or not this partner or spouse is willing to be jointly included into the assurance of support, and the calculator does not consider if the partner has income or not.
(2) The income evidence under the new legislative instrument is now required to be provided for three years (last two financial years plus the current financial year). Previously the years required to meet the income test was two years.
(3) Longer period of evidence to be provided - under current new requirement, the requirement of taxable income for assurer(s) has been almost doubled when comparing with the previous AoS criteria, and the years required to meet the requirement has increased from 2 years to 3 years.
(4) All three years income (two historical financial years and the current financial year) have to meet the new criteria without considering the income increase level.
(5) There is no transition period for the existing immigration applicants - the applicants who have submitted immigration applications but did not receive the notice from the immigration department to lodge their AoS application with Centrelink before the 1st of April, 2018 have also been affected and they are required to meet the criteria under the new legislation instrument. The 143 parent visa applicants who have recently been requested by the Immigration Department to complete an AoS test actually lodged their immigration applications three years ago.
Though the Immigration Department and Centrelink are two separated departments, however, this legislation amendment issue cannot be only regarded as an independent issue raised by Centrelink. That’s because passing an AoS income test has always been a mandatory requirement to acquire a parent visa and the AoS test is only required to be done at the final stage of the application upon receiving the Immigration Department's request. Such dramatic change has a significant impact should the visa application have been made 3 years ago, as the sponsor should have known whether they would be capable of assuring for their parent(s) when they submitted the application.
1.3 Who Will Be Affected by This Amendment
All Australian Citizens and Permanent Residents who have submitted or consider to submit the following visas:
(1) an aged dependent relative visa
(2) a contributory parent or contributory aged parent visa
(3) a parent or aged parent visa
(4) a remaining relative visa
(5) a humanitarian entrant visa under the Community Support Program
1.4 Our Petition / Demands
(1) A transition period to be given to those existing immigration applicants who summited their immigration applications prior to the release of the new legislative instrument (come into effect since 1 April 2018). In short, we request the existing immigration applications to be exempted from the new legislative instrument.
(2) Changes are understandable but should not be made with such a significant amount without prior notice. We request that the taxable income requirement of the assurer(s) to be changed back to the previous level or to a level slightly higher than the previous standard instead of doubling up the previous amount.
(3) Historical income evidence should be assessed in accordance with the previous standard as the historical taxable income of many assurer(s) of the existing immigration applications have met the previous income criteria set by Centrelink for AoS test. The applicants could not foresee the significant AoS changes when they submitted the applications as the previous AoS criteria had lasted for many years without massive changes. The existing applicants should not take responsibility for the failed results caused by the new legislation.
2. Our petitioners ask/request that the Senate:
Many of existing sponsors of the parent visa(s) have been lived in Australia for years as hard working taxpayers. The change of the AoS legislation is really stopping us from reuniting with our parents and it has disappointed many of us who love Australia and want to stay to work for the country for long term.
We demand that the Federal Parliament to strike down the new amendment to AoS income requirement. We demand the AoS criteria to be remained the same as before or at least the new legislation should be changed by referring to Section 1.4 Our Petition/Demands which are listed as above.
No. Petitioner Name Email Address
1 Arissa Wong arissaauz@gmail.com
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