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My Visa Application was Rejected
If you have applied for a visa to Australia and your
application was rejected by the Department of Immigration and Multicultural
Affairs, and you or your sponsor/proposer are in Australia at the
time of rejection, you may have the right to a merits review by
an appropriate tribunal. The idea of migration review is to examine
the validity of decisions made by DIMIA delegates regarding your
visa application.
There are three tribunals in Australia that deal with these kinds
of appeals:
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Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT)
• Migration
Review Tribunal (MRT)
• Administrative
Appeals Tribunal (AAT)
Which tribunal will deal with your appeal depends on what kind
of visa you were denied and what were the reasons for DIMIA’s
rejection.
• RRT will deal with your appeal if you applied for an onshore
Protection Visa
provided it was NOT rejected on character
grounds. To learn more about appealing to RRT click here.
• MRT will deal with your appeal if you applied for any kind
of Family Migration Visa and you (or your sponsor/proposer) are
in Australia at the time of rejection. However, if your visa was
rejected on character
grounds, MRT will not deal with your appeal. To learn more about
appealing to MRT click here.
• If you have applied for any visa and it has been rejected
on character grounds,
and either you or your sponsor/proposer are in Australia at the
time of rejection, you need to lodge your appeal with the AAT. To
learn more about appealing to AAT click here.
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