Australian Immigration Daily News

LODGING COMPLETE APPLICATIONS – THE HEALTH REQUIREMENT

The Department encourages the lodgement of complete applications as this assists with quicker processing. One element of a complete 457 visa application is to have finalised any necessary health assessment prior to lodging the application. Information on whether a health assessment is required is available at ( http://www.immi.gov.au/allforms/health-requirements/health-exam.htm

Please ensure that you carefully consider the work and study intentions in Australia of all family members included in your application when determining whether health assessments are required. Should the requirement for additional health assessments be identified in processing, finalisation of your application will be delayed.   Please note that dependents under 18 years are expected to attend school.  

An RMA sent the following in to Migration Alliance and we sent it in to the DIBP:

"I would like to bring a couple of issues to your attention which I hope you can assist with:

Recent changes with ENS lodgement

MRT-RRT end of year shutdown

The offices of the Migration Review Tribunal and the Refugee Review Tribunal (the tribunals) will be closed over the Christmas and New Year period. Offices will close from 5.00pm on Wednesday, 24 December 2014 and will reopen from 8.30am on Friday, 2 January 2015.

During this period applications for review can continue to be lodged using the tribunals’ online lodgement facility or by fax.

This morning I visited Mark Robinson SC at his chambers on an unrelated matter.  Whilst we were talking, he showed me a fascinating paper he had written called "Australia’s Papua New Guinea Response to the Boat People Crisis – Legal and Constitutional Perspectives".

Mark Robinson SC  presented the following paper to the ANZAPPL National Conference 20 November 2014.

The paper speaks on an epic constitutional challenge in the High Court of Australia that was argued and determined this year concerning the constitutional validity of Australia’s handling of the “boat people” refugees.