Labor to allow 19,000 refugees to stay permanently in Australia from early 2023

Decision grants people on temporary protection visas rights to social security and reunion with family members

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The Albanese government will, in early 2023, allow 19,000 refugees to stay permanently in Australia, granting them rights to social security and reunion with family members.

The decision affects people who hold temporary protection visas (TPVs) and safe haven enterprise visas (SHEVs) who arrived to Australia by boat before 2014, having since spent at least a decade in limbo.

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