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Migration Amendment (Common Sense for All Visas) Bill 2021 + Explanatory Memorandum
This Bill seeks to amend the Migration Act 1958 to enable, for a specified period, applicants for any visa to be granted the visa while either onshore or offshore. Applicants for various visa subclasses are required by the Migration Regulations 1994 to be either outside, or inside, Australia at the time of visa grant. Ordinarily, applicants who are in Australia on temporary visas can leave and return to the country relatively easily in order to meet this requirement. Similarly, applicants who may be working or travelling overseas on a temporary basis can return to Australia to be granted a visa, should they be required to do so.
The Bill enables the grant of visas onshore or offshore on a temporary basis, from the day after the Royal Assent is received until 31 December 2021, after which time the current processing requirements would resume.
Source: Migration-Amendment-Common-Sense-for-all-visas-Bill.pdf and
Migration-Amendment-Common-Sense-for-all-visas-Bill---explanatory-memo.pdf
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A long wait for such common sense. Will, it get through both houses, interesting to see who would vote against it. The fiery red-head perhaps just because she can, or maybe she will ask to "please explain"!