Court Cases

Court Cases

Traill & Ors v Minister for Immigration FCCA 2

In this case the applicants were refused their visa because they had been found to have failed the public interest health criteria. We represented the applicants in seeking review of this decision before the Federal Circuit Court. The Court found that the Medical Officer of the Commonwealth had misunderstood Australia’s immigration health test. We won the case for our client and the decision was sent back to the Department for reconsideration.

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Xia Guo v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship and Anor SYG2572/2010 Federal Magistrates Court

Ms Guo is a business visa applicant who was rejected both by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship and on appeal by the Migration Review Tribunal. We assisted her to seek review of the decision of the Migration Review Tribunal before the Federal Magistrates Court. In this case both the Minister for Immigration and the Court accepted the legal argument we presented to show that the Tribunal’s decision was flawed. Our client won her case without a complicated hearing and the Tribunal was ordered to consider her case again.

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Octavia v Minister for Immigration [2011] FMCA 16

After studying in Australia as an overseas student for several years Ms Veronica Octavia’s permanent skilled visa was rejected as invalid by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship because of a legal technicality. This placed her in a very difficult situation.

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