Reviews and Appeals

Reviews and Appeals

Visa rejection and cancellation is not the last option. We can assist with the decisions made under the Migration Act 1958 to refuse or cancel your visa. The Migration Act and the Migration Regulations 1994 specify what decisions can be reviewed. We can assist genuine rejected applications or visa cancellations for appeals to the Tribunal or Minister. Discuss with us and we will guide you to the next best course of action.

Ministerial Intervention

You can make a request for ministerial intervention if you have received a decision by Administrative Review Tribunal (ART). This is because the minister’s public interest powers need an ART’s decision to exist before he can intervene.  However, there are certain limited circumstances where the minister cannot intervene even after a decision by a review tribunal. These include where:

Decision not to grant a visa is not a decision that can be reviewed by ART
ART has sent your case back to Department of Home Affairs for further consideration and one of their decision-makers has made a subsequent decision on the visa
your ART decision was made before 1 September 1994
a finding by ART that the decision is not reviewable by it
a finding by ART that the application made to the ART was invalid as it was not made within the required timeframe
a decision of the ART that is not in respect of a reviewable decision or a protection visa decision.

The department will advise you if your request cannot be considered under the minister’s public interest powers.

About Us

Connect Education & Migration Services Pty Ltd trading as Connect Migration Solutions is a registered company in Australia which provides education & migration services to people who wish to come to study, live, work, visit or migrate to Australia.

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