{"id":1563,"date":"2023-06-16T14:22:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T21:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2023-06-18T08:43:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T15:43:03","slug":"australias-immigrant-age-discrimination-is-intense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2023\/06\/16\/australias-immigrant-age-discrimination-is-intense\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s immigrant age discrimination is intense"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Now, Glenn, 57, and Sheena, 50, are <strong>too old to apply for permanent residency because the age limit is 45<\/strong>, leaving them with no option but to return to England by August 4.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/world\/australia-immigration-skilled-migrant-visa-british-family-perth-b1088138.html\">British couple who moved to Australia eight years ago are being kicked out &#8211; because they\u2019re too old<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I noted this before. New Zealand and a few other countries prohibit residency for those over a certain age.<\/p>\n<p>Again &#8211; TRAVEL WHEN YOU ARE YOUNG. Consider working abroad or even living abroad when younger, potentially gaining a 2nd citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>Once you pass a certain age (depending on country), your only option is to purchase a visa via investment &#8211; these can cost from $100k to $10 million and are available primarily to the very wealthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several countries practice intense age discrimination towards immigrants. Australia has told a British couple in their 50s that they are now too old to apply for permanent residency and must leave Australia, even though they lived there for 8 years. Australia bans residency applications for those over age 45.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-background","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}