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Living in Australia

Clients and Service Providers

Clients

The SGP target group comprises permanent residents who have arrived in Australia during the last five years as:

  • humanitarian entrants
  • family stream migrants with low levels of English proficiency
  • dependants of skilled migrants with low English proficiency who have settled in rural or regional areas.

Select temporary residents (Prospective Marriage, Provisional Partner, Provisional Spouse and Provisional Interdependency visa holders) in rural and regional areas who have arrived in Australia during the last five years and who have low English proficiency also fall within the target group.

Service Providers

To be eligible for funding under the Settlement Grants Program, an organisation must be either:

  • a not-for-profit, incorporated, community organisation
  • a local government organisation
  • currently funded to deliver services under the Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP)
    or
  • in rural and regional areas, a government service delivery organisation.