Australian Immigration Daily News

From today, Chinese nationals can pay an additional $1000 to have their visa applications for a Visitor visa in either the Tourist or Business Visitor stream, fast-tracked.

As part of a trial to speed-up visa-processing for those who need to travel to Australia on short-notice and can afford to pay for the priority-processing, the department of immigration has announced that it will start fast-tracking such applications but did not commit to a minimum processing timeframe.

The department of immigration says there is no regulatory requirement that the application be decided by a particular timeframe despite the promise of priority processing and accepting the payment of $1000.

'HOW TO SUPPORT WOMEN IN THE WORKFORCE'

As you may be aware, I am on Women's Council for the NSW Liberal Party, and as a result am able to extend this invite to my networks.

I would like to invite Migration Alliance members to lunch with the Premier, Treasurer and Minister for Women on Friday 6 May 2016. 

A Federal Court decision overruling the Immigration Minister’s decision to cancel a Brisbane man’s visa mid last year, has been overturned by the Full Federal Court last week.

Mas Eden’s visa was cancelled last year by the Minister using the power to cancel a visa under section 501(2) of the Migration Act because of a criminal conviction in 2011.

The Full Court reinforced the Minister’s powers to cancel Mr Eden’s visa finding the primary judge’s decision was affected with jurisdictional error.

The Full Court of the Federal Court has issued a decision which is likely to transform or even revolutionise the way that applications for partner visas are assessed in Australia!! 

How often does that happen? Not very often at all!! 

So it is exciting, dramatic and important when it does!!! 

The Full Court of the Federal Court issued a decision on Friday 11 March which holds that the Department's discretion not to apply Schedule 3 criteria in partner visas is not limited to consideration only of "compelling and compassionate circumstances" which were in existence at the time of the application.

Under this ruling, the Department (and the Tribunal) are required to take into account circumstances which arose after the application was made but before the application was determined.

This decision obviously has immense significance for people who do not hold substantive visas at the time that they are making onshore applications for partner visas, and for RMAs who are advising them.