Travel to Australia

Social historians and people interested in the family ancestry will now be able to access information about millions of British people who emigrated from the UK to Australia in the late 19th and early 20th century, in search of a new life.

Ancestry.co.uk has amassed details of 8.9 million free settlers or legal immigrant workers to Australia, which includes approximately 2.2 million Britains.

Early Australia settlers are often thought of as the convict population, whereas many immigrants travelled to, and settled in Australia of their own free will. They often endured long arduous ship journeys and suffered hardships when they arrived. Nevertheless they settled, and populated the Australian continent building a modern country with a strong sense of identity.

The Australian population increased above one hundred times from 1826 to 1922 mostly due to immigration and a fast rising economy.

Visitors who have stayed longer in the country than their Australian visa allows, or people who have had their Australian visa cancelled because they are in breach of the conditions, have no rights to stay in Australia and must leave.

They may be held by the Australian authorities and deported, as soon as arrangements can be made.

In some instances, people who have overstayed their visa can gain a temporary Australian visa, allowing them to make travel arrangement to leave Australia or apply for another type of visa.

Overstayers can be given temporary lawful status through the grant of a bridging visa.

This allows them to make arrangements for their departure from Australia, or to seek a further visa, if eligible.

Visitors to Australia who stay longer than 28 days after their visa expires, will not be allowed to gain a further temporary Australian visa for a period the three years. This condition enforcement will apply, whether or not the overstayer leaves of his own free will or not.

Any debts incurred by the Commonwealth of Australia, taking account of costs incurred for deportation and detention of the overstayer, would also have to be repaid before any further visa be granted.