Bill
Migration Amendment (Visa Revalidation and Other Measures) Bill 2016
lapsed, as at 2019-07-01. Immigration and Border Protection portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Immigration and Border Protection
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2016-10-19
- second reading — 2016-10-19
- second reading — 2017-02-08
- second reading — 2017-02-09
- second reading — 2017-02-09
- third reading — 2017-02-09
- introduced — 2017-02-09
- second reading — 2017-02-09
- other — 2019-07-01
Divisions
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2016-10-19.
The bill would let the Minister require some visa holders to periodically update their details.
A revalidation check would be passed if the Minister finds no adverse information about the person, or if it is reasonable to ignore any such information.
The framework is designed to support a trial of a longer validity Visitor visa, created as part of a government policy for developing northern Australia.
- The bill creates a visa revalidation framework in the Migration Act.
- It gives the Minister a general power to require revalidation checks for prescribed visa holders, and a personal non-compellable power to apply this to a class of persons by legislative instrument.
- It allows a visa that has ceased to be in effect to be revived if the holder later completes and passes the revalidation check within the visa period.
Holders of prescribed visas, particularly those with longer validity Visitor visas, and the Department of Immigration and Border Protection.
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