There is a myth that illegals can NOT be absorbed persons. The writer is of the opinion that in the right circumstances an illegal can still hold an absorbed person visa
The Full Federal Court has found that persons who hold visas by force of statute .................................
There is some confusion about those who held permanent residence visas before 30.6.07 but who applied for citizenship after that date. Not all the ...
Amendments to the Citizenship Act will now require applicants for citizenship to be permanent residents ...
All issues relating to passports are subject to appeal to the AAT....
There is no prohibition on migration agents charging fees for doing work on a citizenship application. There is no equivalent form 956 so agents would ...
In Taradel v MIMA [2005] AATA 1255 (19.12.05), the person’s Australian citizenship was revoked because he obtained a visa because of ‘migration related fraud’....
All citizenship by conferral has a requirement that "the Minister is satisfied that the person is of good character at the time of the Minister's decision on the application"....
Senator Campbell then representing the Minister in the Senate, told the Senate:...
Anyone who was a permanent resident on 30 June 2007 has 3 years to apply for citizenship under the old rules...
The new Australian Citizenship Act 2007 came into force on 1.7.07 and makes many changes to the law of citizenship. The first draft of the bill presented to Parliament had this change to the residency requirement being to increase it from 2 years to 3 years. Clause 22 in the first draft stated:...
