1825831 (Refugee)

The applicant, a citizen of Ghana, sought review of a decision concerning 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 limits.

The Tribunal determined that the application for review was received on 4 September 2018, which was after the statutory deadline for lodging such applications. Consequently, the Tribunal concluded that the application was not made in accordance with the relevant legislative provisions. As a result, the Tribunal found it lacked jurisdiction to consider the merits of the applicant's case.

The Tribunal made no orders as to costs and determined that it did not have jurisdiction in this matter.