Immigration Forum / Australia and NZ / August 2005

In the letter we received yesterday about getting our visa, it had the
following paragraph in it:

Travel to Australia

Once granted a visa to enter Australia as a migrant, visa holders must
make their own travel arrangements and pay their own airfares.
However, there may be eligibility for a special reduced one-way
economy fare, as well as a more generous baggage allowance.These
concessions, which may be available to prospective non-humanitarian
applicants – outside of the United Kingdom and the Republic of
Ireland – through the International Organization for Migration (IOM),
are the result of negotiations with a large number of international
carriers on designated routes.

To receive more information on IOM concessional fares, baggage
allowance and eligibility criteria, please do not hesitate to contact
IOM at

E-mail: IOMAustralia@iom.int

Website: www.iom.int

Facsimile: +61-2-6257 3743

So I went to the website because I'll certainly take a cheap fare and
am kind of interested in the larger baggage allowance.  But it seems
on the site that this thing is more for the benefit of refugees.
Which we certainly are not!  But why would our case officer have
included it in her letter to us if we didn't qualify?  I dunno, I
guess what I'm asking is, should I email them about it or would I be
taking something away from people who really need it and making myself
look really cheap?
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Britta