Australian Immigration Daily News

 How much time do you have to respond to a “section 359A” letter from the Administrative  Appeals Tribunal?

Recall that section 359A of the Migration Act  requires the Tribunal to give a visa applicant clear particulars of any information that it considers would be the reason, or part of the reason, for affirming the refusal of a visa application and to invite the applicant to comment on or respond to the information.

Recall further that section 359C provides that if an applicant is invited to comment on or respond to information under section 359A and does not do so within the time given to do so, then the Tribunal may proceed to make a decision on the review.

The Conservative Party opposes Australia signing up to the international pact which would weaken our sovereignty and relinquish significant control of Australia's borders over to unelected and unaccountable United Nations bureaucrats.

The debate over the UN migration pact comes as Sunday 29 July marks the 10th anniversary of the Rudd government dismantling the successful Howard government 'Pacific Solution', commemorated with the Conservative Party's Action Plan.

The key UN migration agency involved in the pact said it was yet to be told of a change in the government’s position since Australia helped negotiate the deal.

Source: PM-refuses-to-rule-out-UN-deal-on-migration.pdf

A 61-year-old Australian man who was travelling from Melbourne to the Philippines on Wednesday 25 July has been arrested and charged after he was found with child exploitation material on his mobile phone.

Australian Border Force (ABF) officers stopped the man before his departure, as he was suspected of purchasing online child exploitation material from the Philippines. During an examination of his mobile phone, officers allegedly found multiple photographs of a sexual nature involving persons under the age of 18.

Acting ABF Regional Commander Victoria Ranjeev Maharaj said the arrest reflected the ABF’s commitment to preventing the transmission and use of this material.

Servcorp hosted a group of Migration Alliance members at their North Sydney offices for a networking evening on the 25th of July.  Headed up by RMA, Svetlana Gunaratne, the evening was a lovely occasion and included food and drinks for migration agents.

Stand by for our next networking evening.

Director of Migration Statistics at the ABS Myles Burleigh said that the number of people moving interstate was the highest in 13 years, and the number of arrivals of overseas migrants was the highest on record.

"However, factoring in departures, in net terms overseas migration was 262,000, which is below the record high of 300,000 in 2008-09", Mr Burleigh said.

Of the 539,000 people who migrated to Australia in 2016-17, 315,000 arrived on a temporary visa, including just over 150,000 international students, just over 50,000 working holiday makers, and 32,000 workers on temporary skill visas.

Source: Australias-dynamic-population.pdf