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Prescribed visa-label issuance ended for new requests

Validated finding · five-country-2010-20260922-v118-evidence-presentation-fix

CountryAustralia
Operative dateSeptember 1, 2015
CategoryMigration policy
Affected groupAustralian visa holders requesting prescribed evidence of their visa

Policy effect

From September 1, 2015, Australia removed the prescribed visa-label service by repealing Division 2.4 of Part 2 of the Migration Regulations 1994. Visa holders could use electronic records to demonstrate their status. The former rules continued to apply to a request for visa evidence made before September 1, 2015 if its visa evidence charge had also been paid before that date. Holding a valid Australian visa did not previously require a passport label to travel to, enter or remain in Australia.

Conditions and exceptions

Validated condition or limit: The former rules continued to apply to a request for visa evidence made before September 1, 2015 if its visa evidence charge had also been paid before that date.

Official source excerpt

Quoted verbatim from the official source below. Ellipses indicate omitted text.

… to this instrument has effect according to its terms.Federal Register of Legislative Instruments F2015L01304 Schedule 1 Amendments 2 Migration Amendment (Visa Labels) Regulation 2015 No. 144, 2015 OPC61327 - A Schedule 1—Amendments Migration Regulations 1994 1 Division 2.4 of Part 2 Repeal the Division. 2 Schedule 13 Insert in its appropriate numerical position: Part 45—Amendments made by the Migration Amendment (Visa Labels) Regulation 2015 4501 Operation of Schedule 1 Despite the repeal of Division 2.4 of Part 2 of these Regulations by Schedule 1 to the Migration Amendment (Visa Labels) Regu … st following cessation of issuing visa labels. Having to obtain a visa label can result in unnecessary expense, delays and inconvenience for clients and third party stakeholders. The amendments to the Migration Regulations 1958 (the Migration Regulations) allow Australia to cease issuing all visa labels from 1 September 2015. Removing Division 2.4 of Part 2 of the Migration Regulations would remove the remaining requirement to provide visa labels, as there would be no prescribed form of evidence under the following provisions:  subsection 70(1) (which allows persons to request to be given a p … rescribed form of evidence); and  section 71A (which requires an officer to give a requesting person a prescribed form of evidence provided the visa evidence charge has been paid). Human rights implications The department has considered the amendments against the seven core international human rights treaties to which Australia is a party. It is considered that the Legislative Instrument engages Article 2 and 26 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). Article 2 of ICCPR provides that: “Each State Party to the present Covenant undertakes to respect and to ensure to … on, that Division, as in force immediately before the repeal, continues to apply on and after 1 September 2015 in relation to a request made under section 70 of the Migration Act for evidence of a visa if:  the request was made before 1 September 2015; and  the visa evidence charge for the request had been paid before 1 September 2015. The intention behind item 2 of Schedule 1 to the Regulation is to ensure that any request made under section 70 of the Migration Act for evidence of a visa will be a valid request if the request was made before 1 September 2015 and the visa evidence charge for … the request had been paid before 1 September 2015. A visa label must be provided in this circumstance. Explanatory Statement to F2015L01304 … ve Instruments F2015L01304 No. 144, 2015 Migration Amendment (Visa Labels) Regulation 2015 1 OPC61327 - A 1 Name This is the Migration Amendment (Visa Labels) Regulation 2015. 2 Commencement (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms. Commencement information Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Provisions Commencement Date/Details 1. The whole of this instrument 1 September 2015. 1 September 2015 Note: This table relates only …
Federal Register of LegislationF2015L01304, commencement and Schedule 1; official explanatory statementOpen official source
Retrieved from https://www.legislation.gov.au/F2015L01304/asmade/2015-08-20/text/original/pdf

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