Australian Immigration Daily News

On 1 August 2019 the Senate referred the below matters to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee for inquiry and report by 16 October 2019. On 16 September 2019 the Senate extended the reporting date to the last sitting day in February 2020. The terms of reference for the inquiry are as follows: 

The impact of changes to service delivery models on the administration and running of Government programs, with particular reference to:

1. the privatisation of Australia’s visa and citizenship program, including:

Here is a tip for the busy practitioner.

If you are doing a ministerial intervention request try to get the local Federal member involved.

If the press get on board....even better!

I thought practitioners might be interested in the role of policy in respect of delays in the processing and finalisation of 890 applications.

This will be of particular assistance to Colleagues running matters at the AAT where the first instance 890 application was refused and in the intervening period the business has also collapsed and has ceased to trade.

The argument runs like this:

This instrument extends Medicare Eligibility to holders of two provisional Skilled Work Visas (Subclasses 491 and 494).   

Migration Alliance made a submission in support of this instrument: https://migrationalliance.com.au/immigration-daily-news/entry/2019-10-new-skilled-regional-visas-consequential-amendments-bill-2019-provisions-report.html

Start date:  16 November 2019

Dear Migration Alliance Member

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