Appeals & Reviews
It is indeed disheartening to receive a visa refusal or visa cancellation in either case of study or migration to Australia.
If you have also received a Notice from Department of Home Affairs of consideration to cancel your visa application, You need not panic! There can be a solution in most of the cases.
Australian Visa Refusal Reasons
While following may not be the exhaustive list for Visa Refusal, here are some of them depending on your case:
- Application for a wrong type of visa
- Failure in proving the financial capacity
- Submission of incomplete or false information
- Sponsor of the applicant failed to meet the requirements
- Unawareness of the course applied for
- No relevancy of the applied course with the current qualifications or experience.
- Failure in providing concrete future plans
- Miscalculation in Points
- Bogus Documents
In majority cases, you may be eligible to approach Administrative Appeal Tribunal-AAT for review of your application.
Who is AAT?
From 1st of July 2015, the working of Migration Review Tribunal (MRT) and Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT) were incorporated into Migration Division of AAT that reviews the decisions made by the Federal Government.
Administrative Appeal Tribunal is the only body that has authority to review the merits of a visa application.
What does AAT do?
The AAT reconsiders your case file entirely reviewing the facts provided, laws relating to the decision and arrive at a new decision. AAT examines your application afresh reviewing the documents, evidences, forms and all the information you have provided to the department.
There is a TIME LIMIT!
When you are applying for an appeal, you must lodge the application for review within the time frame specified in the notification letter of decision. There may also be an additional application fees for the appeal application.
What can be the outcomes?
These are the possible outcomes.
Affirm: Means AAT agrees with the department's decision to refuse or cancel your visa. The decision made by the department is not changed. Hence, the refusal stands.
Vary: Means AAT disagrees with the decision of the department to refuse or cancel your visa and resend your application with new instructions and recommendation. Your application will be then forwarded to the Department of Immigration for further assessment.
Is there any other chance if my appeal failed at AAT?
If the outcome of AAT review is 'Affirm', then you have 2 options further:
Application to Federal Court: This can be done in strictly limited cases where there is some Legal Error in the decision by AAT.
Application for Ministerial intervention: You can write a request to the minister for his personal discretion to grant you visa by providing some potent reasons. The number of requests that are successful is less. But, in general if the Minister intervenes then the decision is positive.
How BizMan Consultants Help?
As you must have understood by now that applying for a review is very delicate and intimidating procedure. This is the last chance for you to get your facts assessed. We have extensive knowledge with experience of handling multiple cases of myriad situations, we can highlight the likelihood of success, potential issues or better alternatives as we have developed a propensity in the subject-matter.
We understand how crucial it is for you and hence, we perform extensive research and spend the time needed to make your appeal strong!
