Australian Immigration Daily News

Is there anything you can do to assure that your client gets a “fair hearing” before the Administrative Appeals Tribunal? 

Suppose you accompany your client to the hearing, and it is apparent from the beginning that the “handwriting is already on the wall”?  In other words, is there anything you can do when it appears that the Tribunal Member has already made up her/his mind on the merits, and that no evidence, and no submission, could possibly sway the member to determine the visa application in your client’s favour? 

Or suppose the nature of the questioning conducted by the Member appears “unsympathetic” and “insensitive” to your client’s circumstances, what then? 

The first time Australia introduced detention was in 1991 at Villawood in Sydney and Port Headland in Western Australia. The mandatory detention came in 1992 and the government at the time said it was to prevent the country from too many unauthorized refugee boats from South East Asia that can possibly test their resolve and capacity to ensure that immigration takes place within a planned and controlled framework.

Today, the situation has worsened and the most vulnerable people are arriving from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and Sri Lanka, and Australia has been imprisoning refugees on remote Pacific Islands, setting a bad example of lack of human sympathy for the rest of the world to follow. With Europe now struggling to control a huge number of refugees coming from the Middle East and Africa, walls and fences are being built across the continent in an attempt to keep them out.

Australia has previously implemented remote detention camps with high fences for the isolation of the inhabitants.

The Australian Immigration authorities have deported more criminals with mental health conditions back to New Zealand without warning the officials in the country about the state of their minds. These people are dangerous, as they have been involved in criminal activities in the past and are clinically insane.

About the Deportees

In December 2014, the Australian Immigration authorities tightened immigration laws under section Act 501 that stated that the visas of anyone with more than 12 months of imprisonment or for people who have committed offences against children are to be deported immediately.

As a result, New Zealand citizens being deported have increased six fold and around 1000 people are to be deported in the next 5 years. Most of the people sent back to New Zealand are criminals who have served their time in jail in Australia or after stints in immigration detention centers. A majority of these people have lived in Australia almost all of their lives and do not have any links with friends or family in New Zealand.

Sweeping changes to Australia’s migration program are being considered according to government documents leaked to the ABC.

The leaked document outlines plan to remove direct access to permanent residence; overhaul the citizenship test and citizenship pledge; increase monitoring of migrants, even after they're granted citizenship, according to the ABC.

Fearing that terrorist cells may be lurking particularly in the humanitarian intake of refugees from Syria, the reports suggest that access to permanent residency may be denied to this group.

According to the ABC the changes proposed include:

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