Australian Immigration Daily News

The Migration Legislation Amendment (Regional Processing Cohort) Bill 2019 (the Bill) amends the Migration Act 1958 (Migration Act) and the Migration Regulations 1994 (the Migration Regulations) to prevent unauthorised maritime arrivals (UMAs) who were at least 18 years of age and were taken to a regional processing country after 19 July 2013 from making a valid application for an Australian visa.

The amendments will also apply to transitory persons who were at least 18 years of age and were taken to a regional processing country after 19 July 2013 under Division 7 or 8 of Part 3 of the Maritime Powers Act 2013 (the Maritime Powers Act). These groups of people will be referred to as the designated regional processing cohort.

The amendments will include a personal power of the Minister to permit a member of the designated regional processing cohort, or a class of persons within the designated regional processing cohort, to make a valid application for a visa if the Minister thinks it is in the public interest to do so.

Rebecca Yi Jeong Shin, who owns and operates ‘Sushi Bay Belconnen’ in Canberra, has been penalised $20,736 and her company Sushi Bay ACT Pty Ltd has been penalised a further $103,680 by the Federal Circuit Court.

The penalties were imposed after Ms Shin and Sushi Bay ACT Pty Ltd admitted to underpaying 22 employees at Sushi Bay Belconnen a total of $18,671 between November 2015 and March 2016. The employees were underpaid amounts ranging from $103 to $1992, which have been repaid in full.

Source: Sushi-operator-penalised-for-underpayments.pdf

The Migration Amendment (Repairing Medical Transfers) Bill 2019 (the Bill) amends the Migration Act 1958 (the Migration Act) to repeal the provisions inserted by Schedule 6 to the Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Act 2019 (the medical transfer provisions).

As the medical transfer provisions do not provide for any return or removal mechanism, the Bill also amends the Migration Act to extend existing powers in relation to persons transferred to Australia under the medical transfer provisions to allow for their removal from Australia or return to a regional processing country once they no longer need to be in Australia for the temporary purpose for which they were brought.

Source: Migration-Amendment-Repairing-Medical-Transfers-Bill-2019.pdf

and Migration-Amendment-Repairing-Medical-Transfers-Bill-2019-Explanatory-Memorandum.pdf

Today, Orana RDA has made the following announcements:

ESSENTIAL INFORMATION

July 4th 2019 8:40am – CLOSED until 1 August 2019, if you have genuine full time employment in a related role in the Orana region please contact us.

As many of your clients will need to move money abroad to fund aspects of their migration, we’ve partnered with TorFX so you can help them save time and money.

Launching the partnership at an event last month, TorFX Strategic Partnership Manager, Nathan Bray spoke of the advantages the partnership can bring:

What will this mean for your clients?