Gill Palmer
My contraption now works again.
Re-reading your original post, and having now also had a quick look at the DIMA website for you, I think there are several problems with my earlier suggestions (which is why one really does need the experts in a difficult situation like yours.)
Contributory Parent visa is out for the moment. You & your wife would need to have lived in Australia for 2 years unless that period can be reduced on compelling & compbuttionate grounds - about which I don't know. Plus the Parents must both be able to pbutt the medical criteria and meet the Balance of Family test.
The residence requirement might be the same with a Carer visa as well. It would not surprise me if it is. In addition, it seems that Health Services Australia would have to be satisfied that your wife would need the Carer's help for a minimum of another 2 years according to the HSA doctor making an independent buttessment.
Another tourist visa for your FiL would have all the possible complications described in my earlier post.
Would they be able to afford a 4 year Investor Retirement visa? They would need to be able to deposit a very substantial amount of money into a Government designated account ($500K or $750K depending on where they would be living) plus there are other complications and the application fee alone is some $8,000 for a couple. It only confers temporary residence and there are other complexities too, but I believe that you can get these reasonably quickly if it is do-able financially and in all other respects.
If you look on www.immi.gov.au and tell it to find all these possible visas by name (top right hand side of the webpage and you need not bother with the visa numbers) a look through the cue-cards might help. On this new website, I reckon the cue cards are easier and better than the various migration Booklets.
In any case, I would advise you to do no more than get yourself the brief gist of the various visas before consulting a solicitor-agent, not just an agent, about what options would realy be possible for you. With your domestic situation as it is, I suggest you have not got weeks and months to spare in which to spend your every 'spare' moment (when you probably don't have any) wading through the DIMA stuff in order to try to figure out s viable strategy by yourself.
Sorry this isn't most optimistic & positive, but yours really is an exceptionally complex and difficult situation to try to sort out in visa-terms.
Best of luck with it, and if you feel that I might be able to do any more to help you, please let me know.
Regards
Gill
