Sharma (Migration)

[2020] AATA 1684

Sharma (Migration) [2020] AATA 1684 (26 February 2020)

DECISION RECORD

DIVISION:Migration & Refugee Division

APPLICANTS:  Mr Rajeev Sharma
Ms Shwetha Shankar

CASE NUMBER:  1818434

HOME AFFAIRS REFERENCE(S):          BCC2017/2187026

MEMBER:Amanda Ducrou

DATE:26 February 2020

PLACE OF DECISION:  Melbourne

DECISION:The Tribunal remits the applications for Employer Nomination (Permanent) (Class EN) visas for reconsideration, with the direction that the first named 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 26 February 2020 at 2:35pm

CATCHWORDS
MIGRATION – Employer Nomination (Permanent) (Class EN) Visa – Subclass 186 – Temporary Residence Transition stream – Chef –nomination approved –subject of an approved nomination – position is still available to the applicant – decision under review remitted

LEGISLATION
Migration Act 1958, s 65, 360
Migration Regulations 1994, rr 1.13, 5.19, Schedule 2, cls 186.223, 186.311

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 on 15 June 2018 to refuse to grant the applicants Employer Nomination (Permanent) (Class EN) visas under s.65 of the Migration Act 1958 (the Act).

2. The applicants applied for the visas on 21 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 first named applicant (the applicant) is seeking the visa in the Temporary Residence Transition stream, to work in the nominated position of Chef (ANZSCO 351311).

5. The delegate refused to grant the visas because the applicant did not meet cl.186.223(2) of Schedule 2 to the Regulations because there was no approved nomination.

6. The Tribunal did not consider that it was necessary to conduct a hearing as it was able to find in favour of the applicant pursuant to s.360(2)(a) of the Act.

7. The applicants were represented in relation to the review by their registered migration agent, Mr Joseph Italiano.

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.

   Nomination of a position

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. The applicant applied for the visa on the basis of the nomination made by Ca De Vin Pty Ltd on 14 June 2017 for the position of Chef (ANZSCO 351311). On 17 May 2018, a delegate of the Department decided to refuse to approve the nomination. Ca De Vin Pty Ltd applied to the Tribunal for review of that decision.

13. On 26 February 2020, the Tribunal decided to set aside the Department’s decision and substituted a decision to approve the nomination in respect of the applicant, who was the holder of a Subclass 457 visa at the time when the nomination application was made, under r.5.19(3) of the Regulations.

14. As the relevant nomination in respect of the applicant has been approved the Tribunal, therefore, finds that the applicant meets the requirements in cl 186.223(2).

15. Therefore, cl.186.223 is met.

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

17. The second named applicant made a visa application on the basis of being a member of the family unit of the applicant who holds a Subclass 186 visa granted on the basis of satisfying the primary criteria for the grant of the visa. The delegate decided to refuse the application on the basis that the requirements in cl.186.311 were not met.

18. As the applicant does not hold a Subclass 186 visa at the time of the Tribunal’s decision, the Tribunal is not able to make a direction that the second named applicant meets the requirements in cl.186.311. However, the Tribunal refers the application made by that applicant to the Department to consider the applications afresh.

    DECISION

19. The Tribunal remits the applications for Employer Nomination (Permanent) (Class EN) visas for reconsideration, with the direction that the first named applicant meets the following criteria for a Subclass 186 (Employer Nomination Scheme) visa:

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

    Amanda Ducrou
    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.