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Christopher Levingston

Christopher Levingston

Accredited Specialist Immigration Lawyer
Convenor of Migration Alliance Inc

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I have just received an extraordinary piece of correspondence from DIBP asserting that an Australian Birth certificate and possession of an Australian passport is not proof of Australian citizenship.

If you click on the link you will see this amazing piece of correspondence.

The-Citizenship-Question.pdf

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I have just returned from Iran and have finally caught up with all of my work as well as having run 3 CPD events for LTA.

I got back on the 4th and notwithstanding catsatrophic jetlag, and a keen desire to just get back home, the overall sense of relief was tempered by the fact that I had been somewhere extraordinary, and that it was self evident, in my opinion, that what we were looking at was an emerging market.

On my last day in Tehran, the hotel where I was staying had its lifts full of 'carpet-baggers' who were in town to make deals. The newspapers were full of stories about who was in town and what the plan was.

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In a recent case an unrepresented applicant was found to have been denied procedural fairness by his Honour Judge street at the FCC.

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/FCAFC/2016/68.html

 

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One of our colleagues has been in contact with everyone he can concerning what appears to be the provision of immigration assistance by unauthorised persons. even if the owners of the business were using RMAs then the advert is non compliance.  Here is the complaint:

Please note attached immigration integrity complaint thus far sent to:

  1. Minister for Immigration and Border Protection – 3 times
  2. PM – once and thank you for the response, the only one I received
  3. DIBP – allegations area 3 times
  4. Senator Brandis – my local Senator but also AG as chief law officer
  5. The Migration Institute of Australia - representations to the Department.

Now copied to

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You may recall that when the legislative instrument was signed off by Senator Cash with the effect of cease and capping 16000 group 4 and 5 candidates; there was a reference to internal and external stakeholder consultations buried away in the explanatory statement.

I issued an FOI request seeking the following:

Details of "internal stakeholder consultation and "external" stakeholder consultation referred to in paragraph 6 of the"explanatory statement" underpinning Legislative Instrument IMMI 15/112.

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