1732063 (Refugee)

The applicant sought review of a decision by the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection concerning a protection visa. The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) was asked to consider the application for review.

The primary legal issue before the Tribunal was whether it had jurisdiction to hear the application for review, given that the application was lodged out of time.

The Tribunal determined that the application for review was not received until 18 December 2017. As this date was outside the statutory timeframe for lodging such an application, the Tribunal concluded that the application was not made in accordance with the relevant legislation. Consequently, the Tribunal found it lacked jurisdiction to consider the matter.

The Tribunal made no orders as to the merits of the protection visa application, as it had no jurisdiction to do so.