# Migration (Arrangements for Protection, Refugee and Humanitarian Visas) Amendment (Internet Lodgement) Instrument 2025

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Migration (Arrangements for Protection, Refugee and Humanitarian Visas) Amendment (Internet Lodgement) Instrument 2025
I, Lavinia Mitchell, delegate of the Minister, make the following instrument.
Dated 25 June 2025
Lavinia Mitchell
Assistant Secretary (Senior Executive Band 1)
Humanitarian Policy and Child Wellbeing Branch
Refugee, Humanitarian and Settlement Division
Department of Home Affairs
Contents
1  Name
2  Commencement
3  Authority
4  Schedules
Schedule 1—Amendments
Migration (Arrangements for Protection, Refugee and Humanitarian Visas) Instrument (LIN 20/169) 2020
1  Name
  This instrument is the Migration (Arrangements for Protection, Refugee and Humanitarian Visas) Amendment (Internet Lodgement) Instrument 2025.
2  Commencement
  This instrument commences on the later of:
 (a) 1 July 2025; and
 (b) the day after it is registered.
3  Authority
  This instrument made under the following provisions of the Migration Regulations 1994:
 (a) subregulation 2.07(5);
 (b) item 1402 of Schedule 1.
4  Schedules
  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Amendments
Migration (Arrangements for Protection, Refugee and Humanitarian Visas) Instrument (LIN 20/169) 2020
1  Section 8 (table item 1)
Repeal the table item, substitute:
	1
	An applicant whose entry to Australia has been proposed in accordance with approved form 681
	842 (Internet) and 681 (Internet)
	•     The application must be made as an Internet application;
•     If the application cannot be made in accordance with paragraph (a) and the Department has given written notice authorising the person to do so, it can be made using form 842 and 681 and:

(i) posted with sufficient prepaid postage, to:
     Special Humanitarian Processing Centre
     Department of Home Affairs
     GPO Box 9984
     SYDNEY NSW 2001; or
(ii)  made via the online portal at the following address: https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/humvisaapplication

	1A
	An applicant whose entry to Australia has been proposed in accordance with approved form 1417
	842 and 1417  
	Application must be:
(a) posted with sufficient prepaid postage to:
     Special Humanitarian Processing Centre
     Department of Home Affairs
     GPO Box 9984
     SYDNEY NSW 2001; or
(b)  made via the online portal at the following address: https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/humvisaapplication