Editing Immigration to Australia (section)

===Humanitarian program===
{{Main|Asylum in Australia}}
Australia grants two types of visa under its humanitarian program:<ref>{{Cite web|url= http://www.border.gov.au/Trav/Refu/Offs|title= Offshore - Resettlement|website= www.border.gov.au|access-date= 2017-01-02|archive-date= 21 January 2017|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170121133852/http://www.border.gov.au/Trav/Refu/Offs|url-status= live}}</ref>

* Refugee-category visas for refugees under the [[Convention relating to the Status of Refugees]]
* Special Humanitarian Programme (SHP) visas for persons who are subject to substantial discrimination amounting to gross violation of their human rights in their home country

The cap for visas granted under the humanitarian program was 13,750 for 2015–16,<ref>{{Cite web|url= https://www.border.gov.au/Trav/Refu/Offs/The-Special-Humanitarian-Programme-(SHP)|title= The Special Humanitarian Programme (SHP)|website= www.border.gov.au|access-date= 2017-01-02|archive-date= 3 January 2017|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170103002531/https://www.border.gov.au/Trav/Refu/Offs/The-Special-Humanitarian-Programme-(SHP)|url-status= live}}</ref> plus an additional 12,000 visas available for refugees from the [[List of modern conflicts in the Middle East|conflicts in Syria and Iraq]].<ref>{{Cite web
|url= https://www.border.gov.au/Trav/Refu/response-syrian-humanitarian-crisis
|title= Australia's response to the Syrian and Iraqi humanitarian crisis
|website= www.border.gov.au
|access-date= 2017-01-02
|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170321233214/https://www.border.gov.au/Trav/Refu/response-syrian-humanitarian-crisis
|archive-date= 21 March 2017
|url-status= dead
}}</ref>