Australian Immigration Daily News

“About 60 per cent of our population growth, roughly, is now coming from overseas, where as about 40 per cent is from the birth of young Australians,” says Assistant director of demography at the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Neil Scott in a recent interview with SBS.

The complexion of the Australian population is starting to change with diminishing birth-rates as well as diminishing rates of migration from Australia’s traditional European sources.

The ABS statistics indicate that the rate of increase in migrants from New Zealand, China, India and South Africa are increasing rapidly.

“People born in the United Kingdom remained the largest group of migrants with over 1.2 million calling Australia home, followed by those from New Zealand (608,800), China (427,600) and India (369,700),” said a statement from the ABS

I am wondering if anyone or any registered migration agent has an opinion on the value of "overseas referrals".

Any cases referred to New Delhi mission returned with "adverse information"?

Are clients really providing so many false documents? Or is the relaibilty of the "referral " system low? 

Just  received decision in the case of  person who was acused of providing a false bachelor degree from a University in India on the grounds of "overseas referral ". 

We provided further letters from the University supporting my client's claim but the officer refused the application due to a lack of skills  that had been evidenced and compared to AQF standard with AEI database. 

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Has anyone experienced getting decision without merit?  If so - is the decision valid or invalid ?

Experience shows that DIBP Managers always support their Case Officers - even though they make mistakes, are negligent or just incompetent.

I experienced 457 visa refusals on the grounds of "not satysfying schedule 3".  The officer has not adressed her concerns, reasons behind the decision, and not reffered to any particular part of schedule 3 that has not been satysfied.

Migration Alliance was invited to this but forgot to apologise as it could not attend due to conflicting events.  We are however sent the minutes and will attend the next Community Liaison Committee Meeting at the MRT-RRT.  If anyone wants us to raise issues / concerns / compliments at the next meeting please place them in the comments below:

MINUTES OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES COMMUNITY LIASION COMMITTEE MEETING
Wednesday, 13 November 2013 at 2:00pm – 3:00pm
Training Room A - MRT-RRT
Level 17, 83 Clarence Street, Sydney 

Attendee    Organisation
Kay Ransome (Chair)    Principal Member, MRT-RRT
Emily Kachenko (Minute-taker)    Assistant Director, Communications, MRT-RRT
Amanda MacDonald    Deputy Principal Member, MRT-RRT
Geraldine Macklin    MRT-RRT –  NSW District Registrar
Louise Nicholls    Senior Member, MRT-RRT
Shahyar Roushan    Senior Member, MRT-RRT
David Keegan    Settlement Services International
David Prince    Law Council of NSW
Debra Radjenovic    Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority
Farid Varess    Fragomen
Geoffrey Saul    Department of Immigration and Border Protection
Geraldine Read    Legal Aid NSW
Heather Sare    NSW Bar Association   
Jella Dehsabzi    Ethnic Interpreters & Translators
Jennifer Kwok    The Migration Institute of Australia
Jessica Schulman    Immigration Advice & Rights Centre
Katie Wrigley    Refugee Advice & Rights Centre
Keith Stevens    Community Relations Commission
Kevin Lane    The Migration Institute of Australia
Lucy Morgan    Refugee Council of Australia
Michael Kah    Law Council of NSW
Michael Jones    International Committee of Jurists
Natalie Young    Human Rights Committee of the Law Society
Oliver White    Jesuit Refugee Service Australia
Rosa Loria    Sydney Multicultural Community Services
Sophie Roberts    Anglicare
Tony Mcguire    Department of Immigration and Border Protection

1. Welcome
Kay Ransome welcomed everyone to the second New South Wales community liaison meeting for 2013 and thanked all for making the time to attend.   Kay Ransome acknowledged the traditional owners of the land.  Everyone introduced themselves around the table for the benefit of new attendees.