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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 26/02/01202
2 pages
PDF
From 1 July 2025 to 31 January 2026, the Department of Home Affairs processed subclass 191 Permanent Residence (Skilled Regional) visa applications with 15,188 lodged, 16,772 finalised, and 14,353 on hand as at 31 January 2026. Processing times showed increasing delays across…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/09/02148
72 pages
PDF
Documents relating to the appointment of a Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia show interdepartmental coordination between the Department of Home Affairs, the Prime Minister and Cabinet office, and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The correspondence from September…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 26/02/01934
24 pages
PDF
This FOI disclosure contains internal Department of Home Affairs correspondence regarding a Freedom of Information request extension. The Global Feedback Unit (GFU), which handles Citizenship, Humanitarian, Family Visa Programs and Support, requested and received approval for a…
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HA
Home Affairs
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FA 26/03/01086
2 pages
PDF
This document is a publishing schedule table from the Department of Home Affairs showing Notes for Guidance (NfG) papers on the LEGEND system covering 2017-2024. The papers address health-related assessment criteria across 21 medical domains, each assigned a unique identifier…
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HA
Home Affairs
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FA 25/11/00686
77 pages
PDF
Assistant Minister for Citizenship Julian Hill sought input from state and territory governments on nomination allocations for Skilled Nominated (subclass 190) and Skilled Work Regional (subclass 491) visas for the 2025-26 program year. The correspondence outlines the…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 26/01/00855
249 pages
PDF
This disclosure contains a complaint lodged on 18 August 2025 through the Department of Home Affairs website regarding delays in processing a Visitor visa (subclass 600) application. A migration agent submitted the feedback on behalf of their client, whose application was lodged…
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HA
Home Affairs
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FA 25/11/00215
124 pages
PDF
The disclosure contains correspondence from the Attorney-General's Department's National Security Information Branch regarding establishment of a national hate crimes and incidents database covering NSW and Victoria. A director from the Hate Crimes Reporting Section requested…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 26/02/00037
3 pages
PDF
This release is a staffing and organisational structure dataset, not a set of policy briefs or operational reports. It consists of position listings for Executive Level 2 (EXEC 2), Executive Level 1 (EXEC 1) and Senior Executive Service (SES BND1 to BND3) officers, with columns…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/11/01021
25 pages
PDF
The Department of Home Affairs released correspondence from September 2023 regarding media monitoring and D-notice systems. The documents detail an Age newspaper article reporting that Home Affairs Secretary Michael Pezzullo lobbied for expanded government powers to censor media…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 26/03/00398
34 pages
PDF
This Standard Operating Procedure (VM-6619) establishes protocols for processing Australian citizenship conferral applications from applicants residing overseas, approved August 2020. The document outlines procedures for the Overseas Citizenship Unit (OCU) handling offshore…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/11/00835
81 pages
PDF
These meeting papers document the Firearms and Weapons Policy Working Group's discussions from September 2023, held in Darwin. The agenda covered establishment of a National Firearms Register, with presentations from New Zealand on their implementation experience and the…
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HA
Home Affairs
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FA 26/03/00878
1 page
PDF
As of 12 March 2026, there were 172 Panamanian citizens in Australia holding permanent or temporary visas. The largest cohorts were Student visas (42 total: 28 female, 14 male) and Bridging visas (15 total: 6 female, 9 male). Temporary Resident visas for skilled and other…
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HA
Home Affairs
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FA 26/01/00043
16 pages
PDF
This document outlines the Department of Home Affairs' internal procedural flowchart for processing section 501 visa cancellation and refusal referrals following Administrative Review Tribunal (ART) losses. The Tribunal Assessment Team (Alpha Team) must determine whether the…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/11/01060
14 pages
PDF
This document released by the Department of Home Affairs contains general background information on Vietnam covering national identification systems, economic conditions, employment, banking, and education. Key data includes Vietnam's national ID card system (with nine-digit…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 26/02/01268
2 pages
PDF
Red Notice 2020/14 issued by the Department of Home Affairs' Citizenship Identity & Character Helpdesk on 31 July 2020 provides guidance to onshore citizenship processing officers across all Australian states regarding determinations to delay applicants from taking the pledge of…
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HA
Home Affairs
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FA 26/01/00053
45 pages
PDF
The Department of Home Affairs released grant opportunity guidelines for the Safe and Together Community Grants Program, administered through the Community Grants Hub under the National Security and Criminal Justice Program. The open competitive grant round opened on 23 November…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/12/01356
12 pages
PDF
This FOI disclosure documents wildlife product detections at Australia's borders under managed goods legislation from November 2019 through December 2021. The data captures contraband wildlife items intercepted during the specified period, organised by product category and…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 26/02/00775
2 pages
PDF
The Department of Home Affairs released visa processing time data for Hong Kong applicants under the Skilled Independent (subclass 189) and Permanent Residence Skilled Regional (subclass 191) visa streams from January 2022 to January 2026. For subclass 189, median processing…
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HA
Home Affairs
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FA 25/12/00950
98 pages
PDF
This document lists goods descriptions from Australian export declarations to Israel covering 13 August 2025 to 14 December 2025. The disclosed exports include consumer goods (food items such as frozen beef cuts, corn thins, and faba beans; clothing items; candles and home…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/12/00567
38 pages
PDF
The Attorney-General's Department contracted Breakthrough Media Network Pty Ltd for communication services against violent extremism (CAVE). The contract, dated March 2016, establishes the service provider's obligations including liaison with a departmental project officer…