Annual Report 2014-15

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Timeline of legal and policy ch who came by boat: 1 July 2014 3 July 2014 The Department advised that asylum seekers who arrived by boat and are found to engage Australia’s protection obligations will be refused permanent visas under the “national interest criteria. 25 September 2014 The Migration Amendment (Repeal of certain Visa Classes) Regulation was disallowed – meaning Non-contributory Parent, Remaining Relative, Carer and Aged Dependent visas became available again to refugees wanting to bring their family members to Australia. 16 December 2014 Refugee definition changed for applications for protection visas made on or after 16 December 2014 require applicants to show they will be persecuted in all areas of the country they are fleeing. 11 September 2014 Offers and grants of temporary safe haven visas from detention were found unlawful by the High Court. 15 December 2014 Asylum seekers arriving by boat can only apply for a Temporary Protection Visa or TPV or a Safe Haven Enterprise Visa or SHEV regardless of date of arrival and cannot access merits review at the RRT Reports of a deal that work rights will be granted to asylum seekers who arrived by boat as a matter of policy but implementation of this is slow. 11 February 2015 The High Court found the refusal of a protection visa on the national interest test was not lawful. 10 | Annual Report
anges for asylum Seekers to 30 June 2015 18 April 2015 The burden of proof for establishing protection obligations falls on asylum seekers and allows decisionmakers to draw an unfavourable inference where new claims or evidence is introduced later. A heightened emphasis is placed on providing identity documents and visas can be refused where refugees deliberately destroyed documents. Family members of refugees with an existing protection visa can no longer apply for a protection visa on the basis that they are a member of the same family unit. 19 May 2015 At a community liaison meeting with the RRT, the Department confirmed that the bar lift period will be indefinite. 16 June 2015 Asylum seekers seeking extensions of time to lodge TPV applications outside of the requested 28 days are threatened with cancellation of their bridging visas and detention for noncompliance with conditions to “co-operate with all reasonable requests” from the Department. May 2015 The Minister starts lifting the bar for asylum seekers who arrived by boat on or after 13 August 2012 and before 1 January 2014, and who have never been to Nauru or Manus Island. Applications are requested to be lodged within 28 days. 15 June 2015 The Department indicated it will not process Freedom of Information (FOI) applications for maritime arrivals unless they are submitted by people who arrived within a certain date range 1 July 2015 The Refugee Review Tribunal amalgamates into the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. SHEV applications become possible at law. Refugee Advice and Casework Service | 11
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