Vilano (Migration)

[2017] AATA 1950

Vilano (Migration) [2017] AATA 1950 (13 July 2017)

DECISION RECORD

DIVISION:Migration & Refugee Division

APPLICANT:  Micah Louise Vilano

CASE NUMBER:  1712697

DIBP REFERENCE(S):  BCC2017/984104

MEMBER:Lilly Mojsin

DATE:13 July 2017

PLACE OF DECISION:  Sydney

DECISION:The Tribunal does not have jurisdiction in this matter.

Statement made on 13 July 2017 at 2:35pm

CATCHWORDS

Migration – Student (Temporary) (Class TU) visa – Subclass 500 (Student) – Review application out of time

LEGISLATION

Migration Act 1958, ss 65, 347(1)(b), 494C

Migration Regulation 1994, r 4.10

STATEMENT OF DECISION AND REASONS

APPLICATION FOR REVIEW

1. An application has been lodged for review of a decision of a delegate of the Minister for Immigration, dated 15 May 2017, to refuse to grant a Student (Temporary) (Class TU) visa under s.65 of the Migration Act 1958 (the Act).

2. The review application was lodged with the Tribunal on 15 June 2017. For the following reasons, the Tribunal has found that it has no jurisdiction to review the decision as the application was not made in accordance with the relevant legislation.

3. Pursuant to s.347(1)(b) of the Act and r.4.10 of the Migration Regulations 1994 (the Regulations) an application for review of this decision had to be made within 21 days after the applicant was notified of the decision in accordance with the statutory requirements.

4. The material before the Tribunal indicates that the applicant was notified of the decision by letter dated 15 May 2017 and dispatched by email. The Tribunal is satisfied that the applicant was notified of the decision in accordance with the statutory requirements.

5. On 22 June 2017 the Tribunal wrote to the applicant advising the applicant that their application may not have been lodged within the relevant time limit. On 4 July 2017 the applicant responded acknowledging that she lodged her appeal late as she thought she had 35 days to appeal.

6. The Tribunal finds that in accordance with s.494C of the Act, the applicant is taken to have been notified of the decision on 15 May 2017. Therefore the prescribed period within which the review application could be made ended on 5 June 2017. As the application for review was not received by the Tribunal until 15 June 2017 it follows that the application for review was not made in accordance with the relevant legislation and the Tribunal has no jurisdiction in this matter.

   DECISION

7. The Tribunal does not have jurisdiction in this matter.

   Lilly Mojsin
   Member