Jones (Migration)

[2020] AATA 4625

Jones (Migration) [2020] AATA 4625 (25 August 2020)

DECISION RECORD

DIVISION:Migration & Refugee Division

APPLICANT:  Mr Bryn Ilan Jones

CASE NUMBER:  1814479

HOME AFFAIRS REFERENCE(S):          BCC2017/2208767

MEMBER:Phoebe Dunn

DATE:25 August 2020

PLACE OF DECISION:  Melbourne

DECISION:The Tribunal remits the application for an Employer Nomination (Permanent) (Class EN) visa for reconsideration, with the direction that the applicant meets the following criteria for a Subclass 186 (Employer Nomination Scheme) visa:

·cl.186.223(2) of Schedule 2 to the Regulations.

Statement made on 25 August 2020 at 12:18pm

CATCHWORDS

MIGRATION – Employer Nomination (Permanent) (Class EN) visa – Subclass 186 (Employer Nomination Scheme) – Temporary Residence Transition stream – position of Customer Service Manager – nomination approved upon review – decision under review remitted      

LEGISLATION

Migration Act 1958, ss 65, 360
Migration Regulations 1994, r 1.13; Schedule 2, cl 186.223

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 on 14 May 2018 to refuse to grant the applicant an Employer Nomination (Permanent) (Class EN) visa under s.65 of the Migration Act 1958 (the Act).

2. The applicant applied for the visa on 22 June 2017. At the time of application, Class EN contained one subclass: Subclass 186 (Employer Nomination Scheme).

3. The criteria for the grant of a Subclass 186 visa are set out in Part 186 of Schedule 2 to the Migration Regulations 1994 (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 three alternative visa streams: the Temporary Residence Transition stream, the Direct Entry stream, or the Labour Agreement stream.

4. In the present case, the applicant is seeking the visa in the Temporary Residence Transition stream, to work in the nominated position of Customer Service Manager (ANZSCO 149212).

5. The delegate refused to grant the visa because the applicant did not meet cl.186.223(3) of Schedule 2 to the Regulations because the related nomination application by High Clean Pty Ltd ATF High Clean Trust (the nominator), being the nomination referred to in cl.186.223(1), was refused by a delegate of the Minister on 5 April 2018 and as such there was no approved nomination.

6. In reaching its decision, the Tribunal did not consider a hearing to be necessary, as it was able to find in favour of the visa applicant on the basis of the material before it, pursuant to s.360(2)(a) of the Act.

7. The applicant was represented in relation to the review by his registered migration agent, Ms Elaine Nunez.

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 whether there is an approved nomination.

10. The Tribunal notes that the decision record makes reference to the applicant not meeting cl.186.223(3) of Schedule 2 to the Regulations on the basis that the related nomination had not been approved. The Tribunal considers this should refer to cl.186.223(2), being the requirement that there be an approved nomination.

    Nomination of a position

11. Clause 186.223 as applicable in this case is set out in full in the attachment to this decision. Essentially, it requires that the position to which the application relates is the subject of an application for approval of a nomination in the Temporary Residence Transition stream that identifies the visa applicant. The position must be the one that was the subject of the declaration that was required to be made as part of the current visa application.

12. In addition, this criterion also requires that:

    ·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 r.1.13A and r.1.13B of the Regulations), 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.

13. The applicant applied for a Subclass 186 visa on the basis of the nomination made by the nominator for approval of the nominated position of Customer Service Manager.  The nomination was refused by a delegate of the Minister on 5 April 2018 and as such the delegate found that the applicant did not meet the requirements of cl.186.223 of the Regulations. 

14. The nominator applied to the Tribunal for a review of that decision and on 24 August 2020 the Tribunal set aside that decision and substituted a decision approving the nomination.

15. This means that the related nomination application identifying the applicant has been approved as required by cl.186.223(2).  As such, the Tribunal finds that cl.186.223(2) is met.

16. Accordingly, cl.186.223 is met.

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

    DECISION

18. The Tribunal remits the application for an Employer Nomination (Permanent) (Class EN) visa for reconsideration, with the direction that the applicant meets the following criteria for a Subclass 186 (Employer Nomination Scheme) visa:

    ·cl.186.223(2) of Schedule 2 to the Regulations.

    Phoebe Dunn
    Member

    
    

    ATTACHMENT A

    186.223(1)     The position to which the application relates is the position:

    (a)nominated in an application for approval that seeks to meet the requirements of subregulation 5.19(3); and

    (b)in relation to which the applicant is identified as the holder of a Subclass 457 … visa; and

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

    (2)     The Minister has approved the nomination.

    (3)     The nomination has not subsequently been withdrawn.

    (3A)    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.

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

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