Advocates are calling on the federal government to open a new visa pathway for refugees via broader community sponsorship of asylum seekers
Afghan refugee Sakineh with her sons Ehsan and Erfan, participants in the Community Refugee Integration and Settlement Pilot, on their back doorstep in Bendigo, Victoria.Afghan refugee Sakineh with her sons Ehsan and Erfan, participants in the Community Refugee Integration and Settlement Pilot, on their back doorstep in Bendigo, Victoria.he desire to give generously runs through the veins of our regional communities.
CSRA receives many inquiries from Australians each month who would like to sponsor a refugee or family Unmani Umani, 70, lives in the tiny Victorian town of Wal Wal and is volunteering with Rural Australians for Refugees to try to bring the Anwari family to Australia.The Syrian family had arrived in Goulburn through Community Sponsorship Refugee Australia ’s Community Refugee Integration and Settlement Pilot . The program’sthrough the federal government selecting those identified by the UN high commissioner for refugees as being in the most urgent need of resettlement.
“These would-be sponsors are prepared to fund their resettlement costs as well as provide practical support upon arrival but are often unable to find a viable avenue to do so in the absence of a flexible and accessible linked community sponsorship program. ‘Grown men were sobbing’: the story of a refugee family who survived war and pirates to build a life in country NSW“The tourist visa is not fit for purpose in these circumstances, and really Australia should be considering an emergency uplift-type visa, similar to that of the 449 visa which was used for those Australia evacuated from Afghanistan, where families, communities and individuals can apply for or request of the Australian government at such times of dire need,” a spokesperson says.
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