Legislative instrument

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

Status: Repealed
Made / registered: 2025-11-26
Register ID: F2025L01435

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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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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:

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.