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

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Migration (Arrangements for Protection, Refugee and Humanitarian Visas) Amendment (Expanding Internet Lodgement) Instrument 2025
I, Lavinia Mitchell, delegate of the Minister, make the following instrument.
Dated 25 November 2025
Lavinia Mitchell
Assistant Secretary (Senior Executive Band 1)
Citizenship and Humanitarian Policy
Migration, Citizenship and Humanitarian Policy 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 (Expanding Internet Lodgement) Instrument 2025.
2  Commencement
  This instrument commences on 29 November 2025.
3  Authority
  This instrument is made under the Migration Regulations 1994.
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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 4
Insert:
Internet application has the meaning given by regulation 1.03 of the Regulations.
2  Section 5
Repeal the section.
3  Section 8 (table item 3)
Repeal the table item, substitute:
	3
	Any other applicant
	842 (Internet);
842
	(a) The application must be made as an Internet application.
(b) If the application cannot be made in accordance with paragraph (a), and the Department has given written notice authorising the person to do so, the application may be made using form 842 and:
(i) posted with sufficient prepaid postage to a Departmental office; or
(ii) emailed to the Department; or
(iii) made at a diplomatic, consular or migration office maintained by or for the Commonwealth and located outside Australia.