Australian Immigration Daily News

In a Third Reading yesterday:

Senator REYNOLDS (Western Australia—Assistant Minister for Home Affairs) (09:50):

I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to.

Amends the Migration Act 1958 to establish a sponsorship framework for the sponsored family visa program to: separate sponsorship assessment from the visa application process for family sponsored visas; require the approval of persons as family sponsors before any relevant visa applications are made; impose statutory obligations on persons who are or were approved as family sponsors and provide for sanctions if those obligations are not satisfied; facilitate the sharing of personal information between parties identified in a sponsorship application; enable the refusal of a sponsorship application and the cancellation or barring of a family sponsor in certain circumstances; enable the regulations to prescribe details for, and in relation to, the operation of the sponsorship framework; and make consequential amendments.

Sources:

Migration-Amendment-Family-Violence-and-Other-Measures-Bill-2016-Second-Reading.pdf

and

Migration-Amendment-Family-Violence-and-Other-Measures-Bill-2016-third-reading.pdf

and

Migration-Amendment-Family-Violence-and-Other-Measures-Bill-2017-Consideration-of-Senate-Message.pdf

and

https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r5688