An estimated 180,000 visa applicants currently doing an x-ray only to meet the health criteria will soon be required to complete a medical examination as well, under the department of immigration’s new health standards. In addition, 30,000 children under 11 years, will be required to be screened for TB.

The new health requirements announced by the DIBP last Friday, mainly affects temporary visa applicants and will come into effect on 20 November 2015. It is expected to slow down visa processing times - particularly those of sc457 applications from selected countries who will be required to undergo more thorough health checks.

DIBP announced that a new health matrix will be introduced whereby there will only be two risk levels with health examinations: required or not.

Under the new system, visa applicants from over 100 countries considered ‘safe’ will generally not be required to undergo health checks for stays in Australia of six months or less. DIBP estimates that 40,000 applicants per year will not be expected to undergo medical examinations.

However, the nationals from several countries including Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Singapore and South Africa are among those not on the ‘safe list’.

The new Health Policy Advice Manual (PAM) will be released on 20 November 2015 and will be available on LEGENDcom. This will contain policy details of the changes. Enquiries, including questions related to operational arrangements, can be made to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Calls from the likes of  Nationals MP Andrew Fraser to close Australian borders to refugees have been rejected by immigration minister Peter Dutton, who has however warned that tougher security checks will be in place and result in lengthy delays to the processing of refugees.

On Friday, at least 7 Islamist terrorists carried out co-ordinated attacks across Paris which claimed 129 lives and injured at least 400 more. It has been reported that a Syrian passport used by the holder to enter Greece as a refugee, was found near the body of one of the Paris suicide bombers, raising concerns that terrorist cells are lurking among the migrants now flooding into Europe. 

Australian diplomats in the middle-east have been instructed to tighten checks on applicants seeking to enter Australia as terrorist cells may be lurking among those claiming refuge in Australia.

Immigration minister says the attacks on Paris over the weekend has necessarily required stricter checks on refugees as there are false documents and passports circulating in refugee camps.

"We are not going to rush this process," Mr Dutton told the Seven Network on Monday. "If it means that the timeline is blown out ... that will be a consequence of it. We need to make sure we know who is coming to our country," he said

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Get to know your Vice-Convenor

Kristie is an Australian Registered Migration Agent, handing all types of visa submissions to the Department of Immigration & Border Protection (DIBP), as well as the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT).

Kristie established Morgan Jensen Migration in 2010.  The business has recently gone through re-branding and has recently commenced trading as Morgan Immigration Australia.  

As a regionally based business owner, Kristie has a strong interest in regional migration matters, with particular skills in handling RSMS (subclass 187) submissions, and assisting employers to manage the temporary and permanent visa needs of their international employees.

I think it is safe to say that there are many people who are greatly troubled by Australia’s current policies for dealing with so-called “illegal maritime arrivals”, or “asylum-seekers”.  

Is it really consistent with international humanitarian standards for Australia to hold people in what news reports have described as squalid, unsanitary and miserable conditions for years on end while their claims of refugee status are “processed”? I don’t think it is!!!! We are now in the midst of what has been called the greatest refugee crisis since World War 2, with 60 million people desparately seeking to escape wars and persecution. Yet we don’t see the governments in Europe putting people in detention!

Speaking purely for myself, there is something terribly wrong with this picture.  And as someone who is a migrant to Australia himself, and who comes from a family where ancestors were fortunate enough to escape from war and persecution, I have the greatest sympathy for refugees who find themselves in detention.