Financial Support for Temporary Visa Holders in Australia - COVID 19

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#6204

My friends need financial help they are here with 2 small children and he was stood down and no income coming in anymore

Justin Lubben (North Coogee, 2020-04-01)

#6209

Most of the people in my industry are temporary visa holders. My whole kitchen staff are, and they had to go home. How are we supposed to start again without them. If you want this country up and running again, you will need them.

Madelaine Huber (Melbourne, 2020-04-01)

#6214

I am a temoorary visa holder with 2 small kids and we will be left with nothing

Sarah Costello (Brisbane, 2020-04-01)

#6215

Everyone in Australia is in a difficult position because of COVID-19, and temporary visa holders are no exception. In fact, they probably have it harder than most. If the government expects us all to follow precautionary rules that result in a loss of income, there needs to be an alternative method of support. For everyone.

Sharon Blettner (Palmyra, 2020-04-01)

#6216

I'm on a bridging visa awaiting for my partnership Visa for already 30 months!! And still no payment packages are mentioned for us.

Kimberly Gnodde (Avonside, 2020-04-01)

#6217

My ex colleague as we no longer have jobs is here in Australia with a ligament visa. She needs to survive as well. I can’t believe unemployment benefits can go up but there is no support for someone that wants to work.

Jennifer Resuggan (Gold coast, 2020-04-01)

#6218

I have many friends affected by this problem

Sophie Day (Melbourne, 2020-04-01)

#6222

Because Unfortunately I’m not australian citizien and also I won’t be able to get paid as usual.

Thiago Hernani Alves Ferreira (Sydney, 2020-04-01)

#6223

Temporary Visa holders Pay taxes just like anyone else. Australian citizens in foreign countries on temporary visas are being looked after yet they feel it’s okay to leave us stranded? We still have went and bills to pay like everyone else. This is a shocking way to treat people. I guess the old “Australians are racist” Seems to ring true here, what a shame.

Deborah Lamb (Sydney, 2020-04-01)

#6225

i am on a 482 visa been here for 3 years and the fact that we all pay into the sustem to get nothing back is a joke

Russell Fitzsimmons (Sydney, 2020-04-01)

#6228

I'm signing because I am international student. I and my husband lost my job and still we have to raise our two kids. I just paid tuition fee before all of this happened. We are going through hardship right now

Vu Doan Pham (North Adelaide, 2020-04-01)

#6229

Family and friends affected

Stuart Kemp (Melbourne, 2020-04-01)

#6231

Don't leave anyone behind

Dani Harper (Orange, 2020-04-01)

#6233

Temporary Graduate Visa (485) holder who has been made redundant due to COVID-19 and has no support.

Sana Mahmood (kingsford, 2020-04-01)

#6234

I'm alone, my job finished this week, I can't support myself alone for 6 months, I'm looking to buy a reasonable priced return flight back to the UK

James Greaves (Melbourne, 2020-04-01)

#6239

I'm experiencing financial hardship due to the coronavirus and want to access my super.

James Sinnott (Sydney, 2020-04-01)

#6245

I have friends who are on a temporary visa and deserve help.

David Petrevski (Melbourne, 2020-04-01)

#6250

I m in bridging visa waiting my PR without help

Shirley Barroy (Fremantle, 2020-04-01)

#6252

I am a visa holder and pay tax and need financial assistance due to my wages being reduced due to Covid-19.

Burnette Oneil (Brisbane, 2020-04-01)

#6253

I don’t have any work now

Vivek Lather (Melbourne, 2020-04-01)

#6254

I have friends directly affected by this and it is causing marked distress for them.

Eloise O'Reilly (Melbourne, 2020-04-01)

#6260

If I can get Assistance, why can’t someone who contributes just as much to this economy also do the same. Everyone who holds a job is essential.

Jordan Cole (Melbourne, 2020-04-01)

#6265

Please help our friends!

Lushani Wijayasekara (Melbourne, 2020-04-01)

#6267

I’m signing because I, and many of my friends and colleagues, are on a 482 visa. We pay our taxes as an Australian Citizen would but aren’t treated like one when we need something back. I come from the UK where Australians are being treated equally and are receiving help from the British Government.

Helen Robinson (Sydney, 2020-04-01)

#6272

I’m a temporary visa holder subclass 462. It’s not easy to get a job, and then the virus makes this worse. I have to defer my study plan in UWA, and paying bills without any income. I wish I could get a little help from government. Life is pretty hard for me now.

Xu Han (Perth, 2020-04-01)

#6273

These people contribute to our economy, and are a part of our community. We can’t let anyone suffer through this alone.

Stephanie Oberstar (Melbourne, 2020-04-01)

#6276

I am job less, broke, nearly homeless and stranded.

Kiera McKay (Melbourne, 2020-04-01)

#6278

Those people need our help.

Wilfredo Castillo (Perth, 2020-04-01)

#6279

This greedy govt only known how to get our money by contribution tax and not provide the help in this global health crisis

Elsie McMaster (Perth, 2020-04-01)

#6286

Am on temporary visa holder and looking for financial support as lost my job.

Jaspal Mehta (Nowra, 2020-04-01)

#6289

I am affected.

Daniel Lever (Sydney, 2020-04-01)

#6290

Our best friends just immigrated with their two small boys. Australia is the country where they want to live for the rest of their life. They are hard workers and gave everything up to live in your country. But because of the corona virus, their jobs disappeared.

Caroline Clifford (Harderwijk, 2020-04-01)

#6292

I am aware of all the hard work they do including work Australians don’t want to do and it builds good friendships with other countries. Imagine how you would feel if you were stuck in a foreign country with low finances
Steve

Steve Linley (Cairns, 2020-04-01)

#6296

I'm international student

Rafaela Krause (Melboune, 2020-04-01)

#6299

I’m on Brindging Visa A waiting for PR

Loic Avril (Melbourne, 2020-04-01)

#6308

My family and I are on a bridging visa A awaiting PR.
My wife has been stood down and if my company closes doors due Coronavirus. We do not qualify for help from government.

Dean Hutcheson Clelland (Sydney, 2020-04-01)

#6324

I live with 2 UK and 1 Irish housemates that are all out of work. they need government assistance right now like everyone else!!

Lisa Howat (larrakeyah, 2020-04-01)

#6328

I recently applied for my temporary work visa (Graduate Visa) this Feb for which i paid 2.3k - after that my shifts at my current retail job stopped (casual) and my full time graduate role got postponed - so bascially i have no savings, no income or source of incone in future. I need help desperately!

Moksh Mittra (ACT, 2020-04-01)

#6330

My flatmaye is on work visa and just lost his job and im at risk of becoming homeless as I lost my job now I have to pay his and my rent.

Louise Togers (Sydney, 2020-04-01)

#6331

People from overseas are a real value to this country! We are all immigrants in Australia... equality is what we need in this planet!

Carolina Goody (Perth, 2020-04-01)

#6333

My friends just moved to Austrialia and their business closed so they are in trouble

Bastiaan Kedie (Harderwijk, 2020-04-01)

#6334

We also pay tax for Australian, and we are worked in Australia until shut our workplace. Due to government decision, therefore we lose our job.

Si-Hyun Kim (Western Australia, 2020-04-01)

#6339

To support any person not eligible for any assistance from any government during Covid 19

Shannon Peachey (Brisbane, 2020-04-01)

#6340

I’m signing this because I’m also currently going through the same situation.

Benjamin Timms (Sydney, 2020-04-01)

#6344

We all need help

Shona Shortland (Port macquarie, 2020-04-01)

#6346

My daughter is in this situation

Andrew Robinson (Ramsgate, 2020-04-01)

#6352

I lost my job today

Mariana Irigoyen (Sydney, 2020-04-01)

#6354

Half of pur kitchen crew are on working or temp visas, they pay tax like all of us. They stimulate the economy like all of us. They should be taken care of

Alix Lowcock (Melbourne, 2020-04-01)

#6356

I have many friends and colleagues on temporary working visas who are going to seriously struggle in the months ahead.

Charlie Dean (Sydney, 2020-04-01)

#6358

My friend is out in Australia and is worried

Rachel Whelan (Newcastle upon Tyne, 2020-04-01)

#6359

Temporary residents pay taxes just like any Australian, so we deserve to have a benefit as well.

Marcio Gualtieri (Brisbane, 2020-04-01)

#6361

I’m signing because I have spent over 30 000 dollars in education, 10 000$ in private health. I rent and support all local shops and inject plenty of money into the economy by renting and living here for over two years. I also pay regular tax. We have only just began to be allowed to work full time and now with my husband losing his job and my hours cut we are not even sure we will be able to meet the requirements for the job ready program never mind be able to afford to live in Sydney. But our tax helps pay for everyone who isn’t working and those in hotels in quarantine and everyone else getting assistance. It’s not right.

Niomi Evensen (Sydney, 2020-04-01)

#6363

We contributed a huge amount to growth the economy now it is high time to get back some help during the unique period.

Md Ali (Sydney, 2020-04-01)

#6364

Im effected by this and have no financial support!!

Nicola Phillips (Sydney, 2020-04-01)

#6367

Im signing because I’m on working visa and having no any support.

Ruta sarakauskaite (Sydney, 2020-04-01)

#6368

My daughter is in a working visa there.

Siobhan Hennessy (Sligo, 2020-04-01)

#6372

Involved

Dick Scheepstra (Salaar, 2020-04-01)

#6374

I'm on this visa and at some point money will run out. Its next to impossible to get work at the moment and a variety of reasons to not being able to fly home

Emma Nicole (Melbourne, 2020-04-01)

#6375

To the Honourable Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives

I’am signing because I am temporary resident of Australia and I came here to work and pay tax for one year.

I would like to ask for repeal existing legislation and to take action for the benefit of particular people by the House.

Lenka Lukesova (Sydney, 2020-04-01)

#6376

we need these workers - It they all need how we will get the work done?

Dean Evenden (QLD, 2020-04-01)

#6377

I’m signing because i have been living here for 3 years now and I’m on student visa and feel like an Australian here since then, now feeling like left over on the side, but we are Australian when we paying taxes here.

Ryan El amrani (Melbourne, 2020-04-01)

#6378

I have friends living and working in Aus, and with covid 19 there’s a lot of financial uncertainty, so some support would alleviate some stress

Liz Elms (London, 2020-04-01)

#6389

im signing it

lucus ra (melbourne, 2020-04-01)

#6391

My best friends live in Australia on a temporary visa and have always worked extremely hard and paid their way to the country. They both may lose their jobs and would be forced to move to god knows where, and at this current time god knows which country they would be allowed to go to.

Abby Mold (Peterborough, 2020-04-01)

#6393

My daughter , a chef on a skilled visa, is penny less and soon to be homeless and no help given to her or her friends in similar situations, shame on you Australia,

Sandra Willits (Washington, 2020-04-01)

#6395

It’s unfair that these workers are not helped especially as they came to help skill shortage and now ignored- shame on you Australia

Alan Willits (Washington, 2020-04-01)

#6397

I’m signing because I’m an international student working as a childcare casual worker. As there is low attendance due to COVID-19, there has not been shifts available for me to work.

Margaret McLuckie (Sydney, 2020-04-01)

#6400

I’m signing this because as a visa holder I know for a fact how hard is to pay the rent and the groceries (just to say something) and some off us are losing their job, so we are just asking you to put yourself in our position.

Laura Forigua (Melbourne, 2020-04-01)