Immigration Law: Work Rights, Appeals, Character Provisions and Health Criteria
Issues covered include: visas, work entitlement, visa cancellations, AAT, NOICC, immigration, migration, character provisions, health critera, Migration Act, migration ethics, migration privacy
Description
Work step by step through the most important issues you’ll face in immigration law including visa cancellations and work entitlements public interest character and health criteria, privacy and ethics. This is the only immigration law fundamentals program you’ll need to get up to speed and be ready for any matter.
Attend and earn 4 units in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
MIGRATION AGENTS CAN EARN 2 CPD POINTS
MARA APPROVAL NUMBER SM471
MIGRATION AGENTS CANNOT CLAIM MARA CPD POINTS FROM THIS ON-DEMAND RECORDING
9.00am to 9.45am: Australian Visas and the Work Entitlement Landscape
- Overview of work visas
- Work entitlement landscape in Australia
- Work rights for visa holders
- Common challenges that arise in the employment context
Presented by Martin Hildebrand, Special Counsel, Phillip Yip & Associates; Accredited Specialist in Immigration Law
9.50am to 10.35am: Appealing and Challenging Visa Cancellations and Refusals During and After COVID-19
- People on 457 business visas who were stood down: what to do next after their job is put on hold
- Visas to apply for before an existing visa is cancelled
- Consequential effects of cancellation and cancellation powers
- How to draft submissions to the NOICC and the AAT (MRD)
Presented by Kris Ahn, Solicitor Director, Agape Henry Crux; Accredited Specialist in Immigration Law
10.40am to 11.25am: Overview of Public Interest Criteria
- Introduction to the Public Interest Criteria
- Impact on visa cancellations
- Key principles to overcoming exclusion periods
- Issues common to ‘one fails, all fail’ visa criterion
- Practical guidance on waiver provisions
- Current trend with PIC 4020: bogus documents, other false information and identity
Presented by Jason Ling, Solicitor Director and Accredited Specialist and Davin Hartanto, Practice Group Leader, Agape Henry Crux
11.30am to 12.15pm: Character Provisions and Health Criteria
- Character Provisions in section 501 of the Migration Act
- Ministerial Direction No.55
- Relevant legislative provisions, policy
- Case precedents including Love v Commonwealth of Australia and Thoms v Commonwealth of Australia
Presented by Raymond Turner, Solicitor and Migration Agent, Turner Coulson Immigration Lawyers Pty Limited; Accredited Specialist in Immigration Law
12.20pm to 1.05pm: New Privacy Risks & Ethical Traps in Immigration Matters
- A step-by-step map for privacy compliance
- When does private information become public information and under what circumstances can the right to privacy be waived?
- Ethical issues and suggestions on how to avoid conflicts of interest and the resolution of special circumstances
- Critical details of the Australian Privacy Principles and a comparison with the European GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) which is being considered as the global ‘gold’ standard
Presented by Phillip Yip, Principal Director, Phillip Yip & Associates; Accredited Specialist in Immigration Law