Australian Immigration Daily News

Police in the Indian state of Punjab are investigating a brother-sister duo, believed to be currently living in Australia, who are accused of forgery and marrying each other in order to get Australian visas.

The Conservative Party has long called for urgent reform of the visa system with rorts and scams abounding. SBS reports, the pair’s cousin complained to the police earlier this month that they had forged a bank account, a passport and other documents in her name and used them for getting an Australian spouse visa.

Source: Marry-your-sister-visa-racket-exposed.pdf

The following decision illustrates the principles underpinning the characterisation of what is unreasonable if the AAT refuses an adjournment application.

http://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Judgments/fca/single/2019/2019fca0040

BKQ16 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2019] FCA 40

A recent decision of the federal court will be of interest to practitioners dealing with PIC 4020.

http://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Judgments/fca/single/2019/2019fca0052

Fati v Minister for Home Affairs [2019] FCA 52 

The following information is posted on the Business and Skilled Migration Queensland website:

01 February 2019

Please note that the following occupations:

Representatives from the Law Council warned the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, that the proposed changes may be inconsistent with our international obligations.

Under the proposed legislation as it is drafted, the Minister can strip anyone convicted of terrorism-related offences of their Australian citizenship regardless of the severity of the conviction. The proposed legislation stipulates the Minister need only be ‘satisfied’ that the person would have another citizenship – a much lower and vaguer threshold.

Current laws allow individuals to lose citizenship if they are convicted of a terrorism-related offence with a prison sentence of at least six years, and have citizenship of another country.

Source: Law-Council-Media-release---warns-against-handing-Home-Affairs-Minister-power-to-render-Australians-stateless.pdf