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HA
Home Affairs
Released
DA 25/02/00078
7 pages
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This FOI release comprises four quarterly data tables on Protection (subclass 866) visa applications lodged between July 2015 and March 2025, extracted from departmental systems on 30 April 2025. The first table breaks down applications by country of citizenship and initial visa…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/03/00751
304 pages
PDF
The Department of Home Affairs entered into a Deed of Variation with Life Without Barriers (ABN 15 101 252 171) on 5 June 2023, amending a contract dated 3 January 2023 for the provision of Status Resolution Support Services in Western Australia. The variation, effective from 3…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 21/02/00779-OR1
107 pages
PDF
A journalist's FOI request (FA 20/09/00115) from Paul Farrell concerning grants under section 298 of the Proceeds of Crime Act was processed by Home Affairs with delays beyond statutory timeframes. The Department released documents in two tranches: Tranche 1 (7 December 2020)…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/04/01411
4 pages
PDF
This key brief to Additional Estimates discusses litigation trends following the High Court's NZYQ [2023] HCA 37 decision, which established that unlawful non-citizen detention for removal becomes unconstitutional when no real prospect of practicable removal exists within the…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/05/00014
5 pages
PDF
A 2015 Country of Origin Information report prepared by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection assesses claims by a Pakistani male applicant that he faces persecution from Taliban and extremist groups upon return to Pakistan due to his time spent in Australia. The…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/04/01303
7 pages
PDF
The Department of Home Affairs established the Office of Community Cohesion to address growing hate crimes and social divisions, particularly stemming from Middle East conflict impacts in Australia. Deputy Secretary Sophie Sharpe leads the office's work on democratic resilience…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
DA 25/03/00123
3 pages
PDF
This Department of Home Affairs data release, reference DA25/03/00123, provides monthly figures for Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) visa subclass 491 applications from January 2023 to March 2025. It reports applications lodged, granted and refused by month, along with 26,757…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
DA 25/03/00106
3 pages
PDF
The release is a Department of Home Affairs data access response (reference DA25/03/00106) covering Employer Nomination Scheme (subclass 186) visa statistics. For 1 July 2024 to 31 March 2025, there were 43,804 lodgements, comprising 26,016 Direct Entry, 15,202 Temporary…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
DA 25/04/00152
3 pages
PDF
This Department of Home Affairs data access request (DA25/04/00152), released 10 May 2025, contains four monthly tables of visa application backlog data as at 31 March 2025. The tables cover queued and non-queued Parent (subclass 103) applications and queued and non-queued Aged…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
DA 25/04/00150
3 pages
PDF
The release is a Data Access Request (DA25/04/00150) containing monthly on-hand caseload figures for four parent visa subclasses from 2016 to March 2025: Contributory Parent (subclass 143), Contributory Parent (Temporary) (subclass 173), Contributory Aged Parent (subclass 864)…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
DA 25/04/00157
3 pages
PDF
This Department of Home Affairs data release provides monthly figures for Permanent Residence (Skilled Regional) visa applications under subclass 191 for January 2024 to March 2025. Lodgements ranged from 703 (February 2024) to a peak of 1,628 (July 2024), with 1,342 lodged in…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
DA 25/04/00158
1 page
PDF
This release is a data access response from the Department of Home Affairs (reference DA25/04/00158) providing counts of "COVID-19 affected visa" holders who applied for Working Holiday (subclass 417) and Work and Holiday (subclass 462) visas. For offshore applicants between 1…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
DA 25/04/00143
3 pages
PDF
This FOI release is a Department of Home Affairs data access response (reference DA25/04/00143) covering subclass 190 Skilled Nominated visa applications for ANZSCO code 323212 (Fitter and Turner) sponsored by New South Wales where the client was located offshore at lodgement.…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
DA 25/03/00126
2 pages
PDF
This Department of Home Affairs data release (DA25/03/00126) contains statistical tables on visa nominations, lodgements and outcomes for the nominated occupation Truck Driver (General), ANZSCO 733111, across financial years 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25 to 28 February 2025. It…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
DA 25/04/00141
2 pages
PDF
This data access request release from the Department of Home Affairs (reference DA25/04/00141) provides statistics on Partner (Temporary) (Subclass 820) and Partner (Permanent) (Subclass 801) visa applications lodged by Nepalese citizens across program years from 1 July 2020 to…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
DA 25/03/00125
1 page
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This Department of Home Affairs data release, issued under reference DA25/03/00125 and dated 8 May 2025, provides visa processing statistics for first Work and Holiday (subclass 462) visas held by Vietnamese nationals. It reports 144 first subclass 462 applications on hand and…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
DA 25/04/00147
2 pages
PDF
This release is a data access response (reference DA25/04/00147) providing monthly counts of subclass 491 Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) visa applications in the subsequent entrant stream from April 2023 to March 2025. For each month it reports applications lodged, granted…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
DA 25/03/00124
4 pages
PDF
This Department of Home Affairs data release, reference DA25/03/00124 and dated 8 May 2025, provides statistics on Prospective Marriage (Subclass 300) visa applications for program years from 1 July 2014 to 31 December 2024, as at 31 March 2025. Lodgements fell from 7,070 in…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/04/00265
43 pages
PDF
This standard operating procedure governs use of biometric information within Home Affairs' Client Search Portal (CSP), the system used for visa and citizenship processing. The document establishes protocols for biometric enrolments, automated matching processes, and…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/04/01412
6 pages
PDF
This budget estimates brief addresses approximately 60 terrorism-linked Australian men and women remaining offshore, with uncertain numbers in Syrian detention facilities and internally displaced persons camps. Following the Assad regime's fall on 8 December 2024 and Hay'at…