It is estimated that it would take the government 100 years to resolve the cases of the 7,000 asylum seekers living in Australia on bridging visas, according to Greens senator David Shoebridge. The group arrived in Australia by boat before 2013, when the Rudd government determined that no asylum seekers arriving by sea would be permanently resettled in the country. In 2014, the Abbott government established the “fast track” scheme to assess whether more than 30,000 asylum seekers could seek protection. About 19,000 passed and were then placed on temporary protection visas (TPVs) and safe haven enterprise visas (SHEVs), which advocates said left them in a permanent limbo. Before the 2022 election, Labor promised to abolish the the TPV and SHEV visas and allow them to apply for a permanent Resolution of Status (RoS) visa. However, about 7,000 asylum seekers got rejected through the fast track process. Their only pathway to permanent status in Australia is through ministerial intervention. The intervention would allow those people to apply for permanent visas.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/24/it-would-take-100-years-to-resolve-claims-of-7000-asylum-seekers-stuck-on-bridging-visas-greens-claim