Migration Law Updates

"The Regulations now operate to specify the VAC in four separate tiers to implement the increased VAC amounts for ..."

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The new Regulations will replace the Migration Agents Regulations 1998

Federal Court. Is there a principle of constructive refoulement in Australian law?

Federal Court. A letter notifying of a visa refusal stated: "As this letter was sent by email, you are taken to have received it at the end of the day it was transmitted. You have appointed an authorised recipient and are taken to have received this letter at the end of the day it was transmitted to your authorised recipient." Is the letter defective, as there was no authorised recipient?

Federal Court (Full Court). Can it be said that "the national interest requires an emergency, a significant threat or other circumstances involving the nation as a whole" and that "[t]he expression ‘national’ also directs attention to the interests of Australia as a whole as distinct from local or regional interests within Australia"?