Australian Immigration Daily News

Was it the Christmas spirit or unrelenting media pressure and public backlash that led the Immigration Minister to reverse a decision not to grant a visitor visa to the mother of a Pakistani student dying of cancer in Melbourne?

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton yesterday allowed the mother of Hassan Asif to be with her 25-year old son in Australia in, what doctors say are likely to be, the last few days of his life.

The high commission in Islamabad last week refused Mr Asif's mother and brother's application to visit Australia on the grounds they were a flight a risk and would not return home. The decision was made despite the officers being aware that the young Melbourne student was suffering from terminal skin cancer. Mr Dutton, first stood by the decision saying it could cost the Australian public millions if the visitors did not return home after the visit.

In a trade-off with the unions for wage increases totalling 6% over 2 years, the department of immigration is seeking to axe at least 680 positions, according to a report on the ABC.

The proposed job cuts amount to about 5 percent of the total workforce according to the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU). It says this will put the staff “already struggling to deal with rapidly growing international passenger and freight numbers’ under tremendous pressure.

"This attempt to slash nearly 700 jobs is outrageous and shows just how ridiculous the Government's funding of Immigration and Border Protection is if the department has to cut this many jobs just to get closer to maintaining existing pay," national secretary Nadine Flood said.

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Indian police have arrested at least 5 people and charged them with various offenses relating to defrauding hundreds of people by promising them visas to Australia and New Zealand, according to media reports from India.

Police have seized some 400 passports held by Royal Education Consultants in Jalandhar, a city in the northwest of Punjab, India. The passports belonged to people from various districts across Punjab and Chandigarh who paid thousands of dollars on the promise of receiving ‘work permits’ and student visas for Australia and New Zealand.

Media reports estimate the fraud committed by the firm could amount to ‘crores of rupees’ (a ‘crore’ which is 10,000,000 rupees is equivalent to about AU$210,000.)

One of our latest cases regarding the topic of licensing, registration and membership involved an individual who was in the process of applying for his Temporary Residence Transition (TRT) stream under the ENS (subclass 186 scheme).

The applicant duly fulfilled his obligatory two (2) years of employment with the employer and was eligible for the ENS TRT permanent residence visa. However the process was not as straightforward as it should have been.

The applicant was sponsored by a telecommunications company under the subclass 457 visa in 2013 under the nominated occupation of a Construction Project Manager (ANZSCO 133111). However in actual fact, the applicant should have chosen the ICT Project Manager position (ANZSCO 135112) as it would have suited the applicant better and on top of the fact the an ICT Manager is not required to show registration, licensing or membership.