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The new instrument specifies the "English language test requirements that an applicant (or, if making a combined application with the applicant, the applicant’s spouse or de facto partner) may be required to satisfy for the grant of a Subclass 192 (Pacific Engagement) visa in the Pacific Engagement stream"

If the Department sends a s 57 (natural justice) letter alleging that the primary and secondary applicants have provide false or misleading information about their relationship, the obvious options are to dispute the allegation and run the risk of a visa refusal under PIC 4020(1) and a 3-year ban under PIC 4020(2) or to withdraw both the primary and secondary applications. A less obvious, yet quite interesting, option is to withdraw only the secondary applicant's application, as we explain.

The explanatory statement to the legislative instrument that created visa subclass 870 states that the new visa "is not intended to be a pathway to any other parent category visa". However, with respect, the legislation has not achieved that purpose. For instance, we explain how it is possible to apply for an 870 visa and then, while that application is pending, apply for a 143 visa, and vice-versa.

The new instrument increases the age limit to 35 for another country for subclass 417 visa applicants, effective 1 July 2019

A proclamation has been registered, setting the commencement date for the changes to the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) that will require the ART to decide some reviews on the papers

"The purpose of the instrument is to specify two AGEEs and the related class of persons for each event, for clause 408.229 of Schedule 2 to the Regulations. The events are the  ..."

The new instrument specifies "an additional class of persons, who are eligible to apply for a Subclass 408 visa in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, with a nil VAC"

Understand why more and more subclass 407 visa application refusals are not reviewable by the AAT under s 338(2) of the Migration Act 1958. Can anything be done about it? Maybe...

"The purpose of the instrument is to specify the exchange rates and foreign currencies used to make payments of certain fees, for paragraph 5.36(1A)(a) of the Regulations, from 1 January 2022"

From November 2019, a person who holds certain types of visas (or whose last substantive visa held was of one of those types) will only be able to make a valid subclass 820 application if, before making that application, they have either held those types of visas for at least 3 years or obtain another substantive visa.