Output 1.7 Safe Haven

Objective

Develop and maintain contingency capacity and facilitate effective management of Safe Haven arrangements.

Description

Under this output the department provides temporary Safe Haven in Australia for people who have been displaced by upheaval in their country and for whom the Australian Government considers the most appropriate assistance to be temporary Safe Haven.

In 2007–08, a group of 83 people who had been living in International Organization for Migration facilities in Indonesia for five years or more were granted Humanitarian Stay (Temporary) (subclass 449) visas and then subsequently granted three year Temporary (Humanitarian Concern) (subclass 786) visas once they arrived in Australia.

Performance

At 30 June 2008, there were no people in Australia holding Safe Haven visas.