2024-25 PRE-BUDGET SUBMISSION

1 Increasing the Humanitarian Program 1.1 The Government’s commitments and scaling up options In its election platform, the Australian Labor Party put forward an aspiration to increase the Humanitarian Intake to 32,000 places: 27,000 places per year in the Refugee and Humanitarian Program, with 10,000 additional places set aside for complementary pathways.1 It is the view of the Refugee Council an. [...] Recommendation 2 Separate the onshore and offshore components of the Program The Australian Government should numerically de-link the onshore component of the Humanitarian Program from the offshore component, in line with practice in all other resettlement countries in the world. [...] Recommendation 5 Expand eligibility criteria of the SRSS Program and develop a mainstream option in parallel The Minister for Immigration should give direction to the Department of Home Affairs to expand the eligibility criteria for the Status Resolution Support Service (SRSS) Program to support people to resolve their immigration status. [...] Recommendation 2 Separate the onshore and offshore components of the Program The Australian Government should numerically de-link the onshore component of the Humanitarian Program from the offshore component, in line with practice in all other resettlement countries in the world. [...] Recommendation 5 Expand eligibility criteria of the SRSS Program and develop a mainstream option in parallel The Minister for Immigration should give direction to the Department of Home Affairs to expand the eligibility criteria for the Status Resolution Support Service (SRSS) Program to support people to resolve their immigration status.