Ho (Migration)

[2022] AATA 4532

Ho (Migration) [2022] AATA 4532 (2 November 2022)

DECISION RECORD

DIVISION:Migration & Refugee Division

APPLICANT:  Miss Kathryn Mae Ee Ho

REPRESENTATIVE:  Ms Vanessa De Pretis (MARN: 1388116)

CASE NUMBER:  1920535

HOME AFFAIRS REFERENCE(S):          BCC2018/2456839

MEMBER:George Hallwood

DATE:2 November 2022

PLACE OF DECISION:  Adelaide

DECISION:The Tribunal remits the application for a Regional Employer Nomination (Permanent) (Class RN) visa for reconsideration, with the direction that the applicant meets the following criteria for a Subclass 187 (Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme) visa:

·cl 187.233 of Schedule 2 to the Regulations.

Statement made on 02 November 2022 at 2:17pm

CATCHWORDS 
MIGRATION – Regional Employer Nomination (Permanent) (Class RN) visa – Subclass 187 (Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme) – Direct Entry stream – Office Manager – subject of an approved nomination – decision under review remitted

LEGISLATION
Migration Act 1958 (Cth), s 65
Migration Regulations 1994 (Cth), Schedule 2, cl 187.233

STATEMENT OF DECISION AND REASONS

APPLICATION FOR REVIEW

1. This is an application for review of a decision made by a delegate of the Minister for Home Affairs to refuse to grant the applicant a Regional Employer Nomination (Permanent) (Class RN) visa under s 65 of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) (the Act).

2. The applicant applied for the visa on 1 July 2018. At the time of application, Class RN contained one subclass: Subclass 187 (Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme).

3. The criteria for a Subclass 187 visa are set out in Part 187 of Schedule 2 to the Migration Regulations 1994 (Cth) (the Regulations). The primary criteria must be satisfied by at least one applicant. Other members of the family unit, if any, who are applicants for the visa need satisfy only the secondary criteria. Applicants seeking to satisfy the primary criteria must meet the 'Common criteria', as well as the criteria of one of two alternative visa streams: the Temporary Residence Transition stream, or the Direct Entry stream.

4. In the present case, the applicant is seeking the visa in the Direct Entry stream, to work in the nominated position of Office Manager.

5. The delegate refused to grant the visa because the applicant did not meet cl 187.233 of Schedule 2 to the Regulations because the nomination was refused.

6. The applicant appeared before the Tribunal on 11 October 2022 to give evidence and present arguments. As this was a combined hearing with case number 1914629, the Tribunal also received oral evidence from Dr William Tam and Mrs Feng Tam, both directors of the related nominator: Tam, William Chin En.

7. The applicant was represented in relation to the review.

8. For the following reasons, the Tribunal has concluded that the matter should be remitted for reconsideration.

   CONSIDERATION OF CLAIMS AND EVIDENCE

9. The issue in the present case is that the application requires an approved nomination to succeed.

   Nomination of a position

10. Clause 187.233 as applicable in this case is set out in full in an attachment to this decision. Essentially, it requires that that the position to which the application relates be the subject of an application for approval of a nomination in the Direct Entry stream, located in regional Australia. The position must be the one that was the subject of the declaration made as part of the current visa application. In addition, where the associated nomination was made on or after 1 July 2017, it must identify the applicant in relation to the position.

11. In addition, this criterion also requires that:

    ·the person who will employ the applicant is the person who made nomination

    ·the nomination has been approved and has not been subsequently withdrawn

    ·there is no ‘adverse information’ known to Immigration about the person who made the nomination or a person ‘associated with’ that person (within the meaning of reg 1.13A and reg 1.13B); or it is reasonable to disregard any such information

    ·the position is still available to the applicant, and

    ·the visa application was made no more than six months after the nomination of the position was approved.

12. On 2 November 2022 the Tribunal approved the nomination in the Direct Entry stream, located in regional Australia for the position to which this application relates – case number 1914629 - Tam, William Chin En.

13. Having reviewed the application the Tribunal is satisfied the position is the one that was the subject of the declaration made as part of the current visa application and which identified the applicant in relation to that position.

14. Mr Tam confirmed at the hearing that person who will employ the applicant is the person who made nomination - Tam, William Chin En. Mr Tam also confirmed that the nomination has not subsequently been withdrawn.

15. There is nothing before the Tribunal that suggests there is any ‘adverse information’ known to Immigration about the person who made the nomination or a person ‘associated with’ that person.

16. At the hearing Mr Tam confirmed that the position is still available to the applicant.

17. As the visa application was made on 1 July 2018, the visa application was made no more than six months after the nomination of the position was approved.

18. For these reasons the Tribunal is satisfied the application meets the criteria for the nomination of a position.

19. Therefore, cl 187.233 is met.

    CONCLUDING PARAGRAPH

20. Given these findings, the appropriate course is to remit the visa application to the Minister to consider the remaining criteria for the visa.

    decision

21. The Tribunal remits the application for a Regional Employer Nomination (Permanent) (Class RN) visa for reconsideration, with the direction that the applicant meets the following criteria for a Subclass 187 (Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme) visa:

    ·cl 187.233 of Schedule 2 to the Regulations.

    George Hallwood
    Member

    
    
    

    ATTACHMENT A

    187.233(1)     The position to which the application relates is the position:

    (a)nominated in an application for approval that:

    (i)identifies the applicant in relation to the position; and

    (ii)is made in relation to a visa in a Direct Entry stream; and

    (iii)seeks to meet the requirements of subregulation 5.19(12); and

    (b)in relation to which the declaration mentioned in paragraph 1114C(3)(d) of Schedule 1 was made in the application for the grant of the visa.

    (2)     The person who will employ the applicant is the person who made the nomination.

    (3)     The Minister has approved the nomination.

    (4)     The nomination has not subsequently been withdrawn.

    (4A)    Either:

    (a)there is no adverse information known to Immigration about the person who made the nomination or a person associated with that person; or

    (b)it is reasonable to disregard any adverse information known to Immigration about the person who made the nomination or a person associated with that person.

    (5)     The position is still available to the applicant.

    (6)     The application for the visa is made no more than 6 months after the Minister approved the nomination.