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The purpose of the instrument is to update the specified place and manner for making an application for the following visas subclasses: 101 (child), 102 (adoption), 117 (orphan relative), 802 (child), 837 (orphan relative) and 445 (dependent child).

"The purpose of the instrument is to ... specify certain legacy 457 workers as an additional class of persons for paragraph 186.221(b) of Schedule 2 to the Regulations. This will exempt them from the age requirement for the subclass 186 visa in the TRT stream."

"The purpose of the instrument is to specify the minimum amount of taxable income for the income year 2018-2019".

Among other VAC changes, the new regulations "reduce the VAC payable for an application for a Subclass 500 (Student) and Subclass 590 (Student Guardian) visa for applicants seeking to satisfy the primary criteria in Schedule 2 to the Migration Regulations for the grant of the visa and who are holders of a valid passport issued by a specified country in..."

Can an "unauthorised maritime arrival" apply for any type of visa while in Australia? Is the answer determined by s 48 of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth)?

"The Rules ensure that, if a person was entitled immediately before the transition time to appeal or make an application to a court after the transition time in relation to a decision of the IAA..."

The new instrument increases the TSMIT (temporary skilled migration income threshold) from ...

The purpose of the new instrument commencing on 26 May 2020 concerning bridging visas is to amend a drafting error in the repealed instrument

The Bill "amends the Migration Act 1958 (the Migration Act) to allow the Minister to determine that a thing is a prohibited thing in relation to immigration detention facilities and detainees (whether or not they are in an immigration detention facility), if the Minister is satisfied that possession or use of that thing might be a risk to the health, safety or security of persons in the facility, or to the order of the facility"

The new regulations "provide the Minister with a discretion to cancel the same specified visas in Australia in circumstances where it is reasonably believed that there has been an attempt to..."