Australian Immigration Daily News

An interview today from THE TODAY SHOW:

KNIGHT: A three-year old girl, lured from a play area while her mother was Christmas shopping. The CCTV pictures of this are absolutely chilling and it's really struck a nerve with you, hasn't it?

PRIME MINISTER: Well, as a parent, like any parent, it's absolutely sickening. To anyone, it's sickening and some years ago when I was Immigration Minister I introduced a new law which said If you’re sentenced - if you're on a visa - to more than 12 months, well, your visa will be cancelled and you'll be deported and on more than 4,000 cases we've done that. And in this case we'll be doing it as well, and doesn’t matter if you're on a permanent protection visa or any other visa, it applies to you. This is a sickening crime and this person has no business being in this country.

Liana Allan, Founder of Migration Alliance, represented the five-thousand plus Migration Alliance membership on Tuesday this week at the Migration Advice Industry - Stakeholder Meeting, followed by dinner with Jason Wood MP. Migration Alliance was the peak professional association for RMAs present at the meeting.

The meeting took place at 5:30PM on Tuesday 27 August 2019 at the Sydney office of Sparke Helmore Lawyers.  The informal dinner was at Baccomatto Osteria in Surry Hills.

Representatives from key groups such as the Law Council, Corporate Sector, RILC, College of Law (Capstone), Australian Government Solicitors, Migration Alliance, and others who flew in from across Australia.

Migration Newsletter 735 by Lewis & Bollard has been released and makes excellent reading.

Migration_Newsletter_735.pdf

Below is a copy of today's AAT Bulletin.

Citizenship decisions are on page 4.  Migration decisions are on page 5.

AAT-Bulletin-26-August-2019.pdf

Migration Alliance has been in communication with the Office of the MARA today after receiving multiple calls and emails about delayed registration applications. 

Regarding repeat registration applications

As long as an agent has lodged on time, or can show that they have made every attempt to lodge on time, and it was through no fault of their own that the application could not be lodged (ie OMARA website temporarily offline) there will be no disadvantage to them or their repeat registration application.