Migration Law Updates

A single source about the status of pieces of legislation, Bills, commencement dates, disallowances, etc

The new Regulations make changes relating to citizenship, VACs and TSMIT

"This instrument is consequential to the Amendment Regulations, which made technical amendments to the Schedule 1 requirements and Schedule 2 criteria for the Working Holiday visa. Specifically, the age criterion for eligibility to apply for a Working Holiday visa has been relocated from Schedule 2 to Schedule 1 to the Migration Regulations"

Federal Court. Can it be said that, "s 501(2) of the Act carries an implied temporal limitation, namely that once a NOICC is issued, the Minister must decide whether to cancel the visa within a reasonable time"?

Federal Court. Would it be a "potentially inefficient to proceed to make findings of fact about the reasonableness of the timing of the 501BA Decision" here in that, if XMBQ is overturned by the High Court, a Full Court will be in as good a position as the primary judge to make the necessary findings?

Federal Court. Can it be said that the non-revocation notice "substantially complies with the requirement in s 501G(f)(ii) of the Migration Act despite the omission in this case of an explanation of the effect of s 36(2) of the Acts Interpretation Act"?