If this question is important to you and your clients, then consider getting the expert opinions of some of the best in the business at the upcoming Migration Alliance and Legal Training Australia Migration Conference. 

Accredited Specialist in immigration law Christopher Levingston and Lawyer Hugh Ford who worked for 16 years at the Department of Immigration will be deciphering the major issues now facing partner visa applications at this one-day conference in Sydney.

Gus McLean from the Australian Federal Police will join the key speakers to discuss some of the main issues Registered Migration Agents need to consider when providing advice to partner migration applicants, particularly those deemed by the department to be from ‘risk’ countries.

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A Dying Man’s Last Wish

A Pakistani student, Hassan Asif, who came to Australia to study architecture, was diagnosed with terminal skin cancer in July 2015 while he studying in the country. He had been receiving outreach palliative care right after the diagnosis. As his condition deteriorated, he was transferred to a specialist medical institution for intensive care. The doctors declared that he was in no condition to go back all the way to Pakistan to his family, although he had planned to go back to his home country someday and work as an architect.

Because he knew he was dying, and that he could not go back home, he made an appeal to the Department of Immigration and Border Protection to allow his brother and mother to travel to Australia, so he could be with them as he dies.

In an emotional appeal, he requested that like anyone who has limited days left in the world, he would also want to spend this time with his family as his mother desperately wants to be with him during this time.

The fate of a Bangladeshi woman together with those of several thousands of other asylum seekers detained offshore could be decided today when the full bench of the High Court of Australia hands down its decision on the legitimacy of Australia’s offshore detention facilities.

For the past nine months, lawyers for the woman who was on a boat intercepted by Australian authorities in 2013, have argued it is illegal for the Australian Government to operate and pay for offshore detention in a third country, according to a report on the ABC.

The woman was initially detained offshore but was brought to Brisbane to give birth in late 2014. Her lawyers from the Human Rights Law Centre then filed an application to prevent authorities from taking the woman back to Nauru.

In a similar case in 2014, Australia's offshore processing operation in Papua New Guinea was upheld by the High Court. The court found in this case the law designating PNG as a regional processing country was valid under the aliens power in section 51 of the constitution.

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