Immigration Forum / Australia and NZ / February 2005

Problems are likely to arise if *your* children are 18, or about to turn
18 - not theirs.
The income requirements to do a mandatory Assurance of Support are fixed
and not flexible.

Jeremy

Hi Jackie,

Here's the wording directly from the CentreLink AoS Factsheet which is
available on the CentreLink web page:

"In all other bonded and unbonded cases the minimum amount of income is
based on the Family Tax Benefit (Part A) income threshold. Currently the
annual income is $32,485.

These amounts include the first child of the assurer and are sufficient
to provide an assurance for one assuree. They are further increased
according to the number of other adults and children who are dependent
on the assurer for support and the number of adults and children who are
going to be covered by the Assurance of Support. The amounts are
increased by $2500 for each adult and $1250 for each child. An assurer?s
partner is not considered to be dependent on the assurer and is not
included in calculating the amount of income required for an Assurance
of Support to be accepted."

Reading this through again I think that the info I gave previously
might have been wrong (can Jeremy confirm this?). The way I read this
now, an assurer with no dependents but with a spouse has an income
basis of $32485, onto which the $5000 additional income requirement
for two adults would be added, giving a total of $37485. This differs
from Datamile's figures inthe spreadsheet he put up as he seemed to
add to the income level for the assurer's spouse, which doesn't seem
to be required.

If this is correct then I think that Jackie's case would be as follows:

- Assurer: 2 adults ($32485) + 2 dependent children ($1250x1) = $33735
- Assuree: 2 adults ($2500x2) + 4 dependent children ($1250x4) = $10000
- Total Income Level Required: $43735

The bond level of course would still be $5000 so long as all Jackie's
children are under 18 throughout the entire application process.

Cheers,
Brian