Commonwealth legislation

Migration Regulations 1994 - Specification of Class of Passports - IMMI 12/101

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This decision directs immigration officers to treat certain travel documents (listed in Schedule A and B) as not being “valid passports” when applying Public Interest Criterion 4021, which normally requires visa applicants to hold a valid passport. It affects anyone applying for an Australian visa who relies solely on those excluded documents: applications will be refused unless the applicant can show it is unreasonable for them to obtain a proper passport.

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Migration Regulations 1994

CLASS OF PASSPORTS

(Schedule 4, Part 1, Public Interest Criterion 4021)

I, CHRIS BOWEN, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, acting under Public Interest Criterion 4021 of Schedule 4 to the Migration Regulations 1994 (‘the Regulations’) SPECIFY that the following documents are NOT TO BE TAKEN to be a passport or travel document, for the purposes of Public Interest Criterion 4021:

(a) Travel documents with certain characteristics specified in Schedule A to this instrument; and

(b) Specified Travel Documents in Schedule B to this instrument.

This Instrument, IMMI 12/101, commences on 24 November 2012, immediately after the commencement of the Migration Legislation Amendment Regulation 2012 (No. 5).

Dated 22 November 2012

Chris Bowen

Minister for Immigration and Citizenship

[NOTE 1: Public Interest Criterion 4021 of the Regulations provides that, either the applicant holds a valid passport that was issued to the applicant by an official source and is in the form issued by the official source and that is not in a class of passports specified by the Minister in an instrument in writing, or it would be unreasonable to require the applicant to hold a passport.]

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