1812109 (Refugee)

The applicant, a citizen of China, sought review of a decision by the Minister to refuse to grant a protection visa. The application for review was lodged with the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.

The central legal issue before the Tribunal was whether it had jurisdiction to hear the applicant's review application, given that it was received by the Tribunal after the prescribed time limit.

The Tribunal, constituted by Member Mila Foster, found that the application for review was not received until 27 April 2018. As this date was outside the timeframe stipulated by the relevant legislation for lodging an application for review, the Tribunal concluded that it lacked jurisdiction to consider the merits of the applicant's case.

Consequently, the Tribunal made no order in relation to the merits of the protection visa application, as it had no jurisdiction to do so.