1823987 (Refugee)

The applicant, a citizen of China, sought review of a decision concerning their application for a protection visa. The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) was asked to consider the applicant's review application.

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

The Tribunal determined that the application for review was not received by the Tribunal until 18 August 2018. As this date fell outside the statutory timeframe for lodging such applications, 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 ordered that it does not have jurisdiction in this matter.