{"id":1738,"date":"2023-02-13T06:31:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T06:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/australia\/?page_id=1738"},"modified":"2025-06-04T03:24:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T03:24:42","slug":"tpv-shev-visa-policy-change","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/australia\/tpv-shev-visa-policy-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Permanent pathway for TPV and SHEV visa holders \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On 13 February 2023, the Australian Government announced that refugees who have a Temporary Protection visa (TPV subclass 785) or a Safe Haven Enterprise visa (SHEV subclass 790) have a pathway for permanent protection and would be eligible for a permanent Resolution of Status visa (RoS subclass 851). These changes have been made to provide a permanent pathway for up to 20,000 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The RoS visa is a <strong>permanent visa<\/strong> permitting the visa holder to <strong>live, work, study, obtain access to Medicare and Centrelink and sponsor eligible family members for permanent residence to Australia.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Further information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Further information, including fact sheets in various languages, is available on the Department of Home Affairs website here: <a href=\"https:\/\/immi.homeaffairs.gov.au\/Visa-subsite\/Pages\/other-visas\/851-RoS.aspx\">Subclass 851 Resolution of Status (homeaffairs.gov.au)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For <strong>legal assistance<\/strong>, please contact the relevant legal service in your state or territory. A list of free legal service providers can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/australia\/where-to-find-help\/free-legal-help\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/australia\/where-to-find-help\/free-legal-help\/\">Free Legal Help. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 13 February 2023, the Australian Government announced that refugees who have a Temporary Protection visa (TPV subclass 785) or a Safe Haven Enterprise visa (SHEV subclass 790) have a pathway for permanent protection and would be eligible for a permanent Resolution of Status visa (RoS subclass 851). These changes have been made to provide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1738","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1738"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2215,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1738\/revisions\/2215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}