2218137 (Refugee)

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) considered an application for review concerning a protection visa. The applicant sought to challenge a decision, but their application for review was lodged with the Tribunal after the statutory deadline.

The central legal issue before the Tribunal was whether it possessed jurisdiction to hear the applicant's appeal, given that the application for review was not received within the time prescribed by the relevant legislation.

The Tribunal determined that the application for review was not made in accordance with the relevant legislative requirements because it was received by the Tribunal on 9 December 2022, which was outside the statutory timeframe. Consequently, the Tribunal concluded that it lacked jurisdiction to consider the matter. The Tribunal therefore made no substantive decision on the merits of the protection visa application.