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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/12/00108
37 pages
PDF
This submission briefs the Ministers for Home Affairs and Cyber Security ahead of a Joint Standing Committee on Treaties (JSCOT) visit to India in December 2023. Four federal parliamentarians were scheduled to visit Kolkata and Delhi to support the Australia-India Economic…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 26/01/00324
4 pages
PDF
During 2025, the Department of Home Affairs cancelled 5,158 onshore visas after visa holders had entered Australia. Student visas comprised the largest category with 2,396 cancellations, followed by Visitor (1,110), Other (618), Temporary Resident (425), and Migrant (228). The…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/12/01290
4 pages
PDF
This procedural instruction governs how Status Resolution Officers (SROs) exercise discretion when considering visa cancellations under the Migration Act. The document outlines mandatory considerations including: identifying cancellation grounds consistent with legislation and…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 26/01/00007
4 pages
PDF
This FOI disclosure contains Department of Home Affairs documents relating to an individual associated with "Canary Mission" between January 2021 and December 2025. Document 1 is a Client Brief dated 22 November 2024 prepared for the Minister for Home Affairs and other…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/12/01587
3 pages
PDF
Since 24 October 2025, the Department of Home Affairs granted 132 Bridging Visa R (BVR) visas. Between 22 October 2025 and 30 November 2025, four BVR holders were transferred to Nauru under the Third Country Reception Arrangement—two involuntarily and two voluntarily. The…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 26/02/00123
3 pages
PDF
The Department of Home Affairs released a statutory declaration form used in Australian citizenship and visa processing. The form requires declarants to confirm they have no criminal convictions, pending charges, domestic violence orders, or involvement in specified offences. It…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/11/01808
36 pages
PDF
The Australian Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism sought to procure an independent audit of Universities Australia members' antisemitism policies and campus safety measures for Jewish students and staff. An initial tender (RFx25630) circulated to five selected bidders over two…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/12/01786
25 pages
PDF
Home Affairs released procedural instructions governing Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) data handling at Australian airports, approved 21 May 2018 and reviewed 21 May 2019 (Document ID TI-742). The instruction provides guidance on correct handling, storage, and release of CCTV…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 26/01/01298
1 page
PDF
As of 30 November 2023, fewer than five unlawful non-citizens from South Sudan were in detention in Australia who had experienced visa cancellation under section 501 of the Migration Act, lacked section 197C protection findings, and had not been granted Bridging Visa Returns…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/08/01011
66 pages
PDF
A Department of Home Affairs Community Liaison Officer engagement report documents a meeting involving federal and state politicians including Assistant Minister for Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs Julian Hill MP, MPs from Bruce, Holt, Higgins, Berwick and state members…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/10/00401
61 pages
PDF
The release comprises Australian Border Force back pocket briefs, key briefs, internal emails and Senate Estimates preparation material concerning Australian citizens who travel overseas to fight, particularly with the Israel Defence Force (IDF) in Gaza. The records cover the…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/12/01050
1 page
PDF
This Department of Home Affairs release, FOI request FA 25/12/01050, is a single statistical table of unlawful non-citizens (UNCs) in Australia as at 30 June 2025, broken down by length of overstay. The estimated total is 77,700. Around 20,000 (25.8 per cent) had overstayed or…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/12/00522
8 pages
PDF
This FOI release is a tabular list of unauthorised maritime arrivals (SIEVs, or suspected illegal entry vessels) for two periods: 1999 to 2001, comprising five vessels, and 2009 to 2011, comprising roughly 290 vessels numbered SIEV 43 to SIEV 294. For each vessel, the table…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/12/01525
14 pages
PDF
The release comprises network advice notices, a Code of Behaviour template, a participant training guide and training slides concerning Bridging visa E (BVE), subclass 050 (Bridging (General)). The two network alerts, dated April 2024 and February 2025, announce renewal of the…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/12/00004
44 pages
PDF
The release comprises Australian Border Force seizure notices and related records from Perth Airport (WA Air Travellers Terminal 1) relating to incidents in 2025. The seizures were made under sections 205 and 205A of the Customs Act 1901 and cover special forfeited goods…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/12/00112
112 pages
PDF
The release contains change requests, incident records, email chains, a meeting transcript and post-incident reports concerning outages of the Passenger Analysis Clearance and Evaluation (PACE) system, which the Australian Border Force relies on for passenger clearance, in…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/12/01268
9 pages
PDF
The release comprises three documents. The first is a table of departmental spending on Christmas and end-of-year activities in November and December 2025 under the Awards and Recognition Policy, totalling $1,777.39 across four divisional events (a catered lunch, a sausage…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/10/00928
14 pages
PDF
The released document is the May 2025 Review of the Home Affairs Technology and Major Capability Group (TMCG), a review of the structure and operating model of the department's technology function. It notes that TMCG has a headcount of about 2,000 across two divisions and one…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/09/00830
155 pages
PDF
The release comprises procurement documents from the Department of Home Affairs for the Provision of Services for the Delivery and Administration of the Migration Agents Capstone Assessment, the prescribed exam migration agents must pass to register under the Migration Act 1958.…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/12/01008
2 pages
PDF
This Department of Home Affairs FOI release (FA 25/12/01008) provides statistics on Bridging E visa (BVE) grants carrying condition 8566, which relates to the Code of Behaviour. Grants rose from 5,181 in 2020 to 6,454 in 2025, totalling 33,651 over the period. The Department…