Mandip Kaur (Migration)

[2018] AATA 2650

Mandip Kaur (Migration) [2018] AATA 2650 (25 July 2018)

DECISION RECORD

DIVISION:Migration & Refugee Division

APPLICANTS:  Ms  Mandip Kaur
Mr Billa Aulakh
Master Angad Singh Aulakh

CASE NUMBER:  1729629

DIBP REFERENCE(S):  BCC2016/1783028

MEMBER:Cathrine Burnett-Wake

DATE:25 July 2018

PLACE OF DECISION:  Melbourne

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

·cl.187.233(3) of Schedule 2 to the Regulations.

Statement made on 25 July 2018 at 7:37am

CATCHWORDS
Migration – Regional Employer Nomination (Permanent) (Class RN) visa – Subclass 187 (Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme) – Direct Entry stream – Requirement to be subject of an approved nomination – Applicant not subject of an approved nomination – Decision affirmed

LEGISLATION
Migration Act 1958 (Cth), s 65
Migration Regulations 1994 (Cth), r 5.19(4), Schedule 2, cl 187.233(3)

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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 Immigration and Border Protection to refuse to grant the applicants Regional Employer Nomination (Permanent) (Class RN) visas under s.65 of the Migration Act 1958 (the Act).

2. The applicants applied for the visas on 19 May 2016. 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 (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 Agreement stream.

4. In the present case, the first named applicant (the applicant) is seeking the visa in the Direct Entry stream, to work in the nominated position of Office Manager. This stream is designed for persons who have never, or have only briefly worked in the Australian labour market and are applying for the visa outside Australia, or are applying from inside Australia but are not eligible for the Temporary Residence Transition stream.

5. The delegate refused to grant the visas because the applicant did not meet cl.187.233 of Schedule 2 to the Regulations because there was no approved nomination.

6. The applicants appeared before the Tribunal on 4 June 2018 to give evidence and present arguments. The Tribunal hearing was conducted with the assistance of an interpreter in the Punjabi and English languages.

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

   CONSIDERATION OF CLAIMS AND EVIDENCE

8. The issue in the present case is whether there is an approved nomination.

   Nomination of a position

9. For applicants in the Direct Entry stream, cl.187.233 requires that the position to which the application relates be the subject of an application for approval of a nominated position under r.5.19(4)(h)(ii) of the Regulations (that is, a Direct Entry nomination in regional Australia), or under r.5.19(4) as it was prior to 1 July 2012 (that is, a Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme nomination). 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. In addition, where the associated nomination is made on or after 1 July 2017, the position must be the position in relation to which the applicant is identified in that nomination under r.5.19(4)(a)(ii).

10. 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 r.1.13A and r.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.

11. The applicant's nominating employer, Contract Abattoir Cleaners Pty Ltd, applied to the Department for the approval of the position of Office Manager in respect of the applicant. The Department refused to approve the nomination and the employer applied to the Tribunal for review of that decision.

12. On 25 July 2018, the Tribunal set aside the Department's decision and substituted a decision to approve the nomination in respect of the applicant under r.5.19(4).

13. Therefore, cl.187.233 is met.

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

15. The application of the second and third named visa applicants is based on being a member of the family unit of the first named visa applicant who meets the primary criteria. As the Tribunal is remitting the application of the first named visa applicant with a finding that he meets the requirements of cl.187.233, the remaining criteria for his application should now be reconsidered, in addition the application of the second and third named visa applicants, as members of the family unit of the first named visa applicant, should now also be reconsidered in full.

    DECISION

16. 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(3) of Schedule 2 to the Regulations;

    Cathrine Burnett-Wake
    Member