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'The [Bill] will facilitate the secure, automated and accountable exchange of identity information between the Commonwealth and state and territory governments, pursuant to the objectives of the Intergovernmental Agreement on Identity Matching Services (IGA), agreed by COAG in October 2017. The Bill will achieve this by providing explicit legal authority for the Department of Home Affairs ... to collect, use and disclose identification information'

It is commonly said that the giving of immigration assistance by a person who is not an RMA makes that person liable for imprisonment, with exceptions. That is not an accurate statement. Unregistered assistance itself does not lead to imprisonment. What can lead to imprisonment is something else, as we explain.

"The amendments of the Migration Regulations provide for the ART’s ability to make decisions ‘on the papers’ in relation to certain applications for decisions to refuse grant of a student visa, without conducting an oral hearing, in appropriate cases..."

"The purpose of the instrument is to make a determination to specify eligibility and other rules in relation to conducting visa pre-application processes for the random selection of registered participants seeking to apply for a permanent Subclass 192 (Pacific Engagement) visa in the Treaty stream..."

The new instrument specifies two circumstances in which a clearance officer may require a person who has provided an Australian Travel Declaration to provide a completed incoming passenger card

The new instrument specifies the pool and pass marks for the following visa subclasses: 491, 189 and 190

The government of South Australia has released the new occupation lists for the Adelaide City Technology and Innovation Advancement DAMA and the South Australian Regional Workforce DAMA, effective 1 July 2019

The new instrument introduces a mandatory hepatitis B testing requirement for certain classes of persons

"The Regulations prescribe an amount of AUD... as the charge for registration as a registered participant in a ballot for the new Pacific Engagement visa. The charge must be paid at the time of ..."

The new LIN 19/088 exempts Chilean applicants from need to provide evidence of government support and amends lodgement requirements for Malaysian applicants