Australian Immigration Daily News

Must the Minister consider whether Australia has non-refoulement obligations before proceeding to cancel a person’s visa on character grounds? 

This complicated and difficult question was addressed in a decision that was handed down last Friday,

9 September 2016, by a panel of the Full Court of the Federal Court in the case of Minister for Immigration and Border Protection v Le (2016) FCAFC 120.   

Greetings from Canberra

Closure of Occupations: Unit Group 2231 HUMAN RESOURCE PROFESSIONALS

Effective tomorrow, 10 September 2016, the following occupations will close as the demand for these occupations has been met:

Is a failure to comply with Schedule 3 criteria necessarily “fatal” to a visa application? 

What about in circumstances where there is no possibility of getting Schedule 3 waived? 

For instance, what about in the case of a “New Zealand Citizen Family Relationship” visa (Subclass 461)? 

On the TOEFL iBT® test, the Speaking and Writing questions are often regarded by test takers as the most challenging questions.

Agents can learn more about how their clients will be tested on these two important skills at a free TOEFL Propell workshop on 20 September from 2:00-4:30 pm in Melbourne (CBD).

The workshop will be led by ETS Global consultant and TOEFL expert Cath Moore. The workshop includes:

Imagine that you are contacted by a potential client who is in immigration detention and asks if you are able to help him. 

Imagine further that the client tells you the following information about his situation: 

He was the holder of a 457 visa.  When he went to the international airport in Sydney to take a flight overseas, he filled in an “outgoing passenger card”.  He responded to a question on the card that asked whether he was taking more than $10,000 out of Australia by answering “No”.  However, a routine search of his baggage by officers of the Australian Border Force revealed that he was in fact carrying more than $24,000.