Is Your Student Visa At Peril? Australian Student Visa Holders To Read
This article briefly highlights a few important points that any Australian student visa holder must observe and be vigilant of so not to put one’s student visa at risk. The list is not meant to be exhaustive and every case turns on its own fact. What is condition 8202? Put simply, condition 8202 requires a student visa holder to adhere to certain course enrolment, attendance, and academic requirements. As an example, condition 8202(2)(a) requires the visa holder to be enrolled in a full-time registered course. What happens when the condition is breached? When condition 8202(2)(a) is breached, the Minister is able to cancel the student’s visa in question in accordance with section 116(1)(b) of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth). What happens if I receive a Notice of Cancellation from the Department of Home Affairs? The first step is to seek our legal advice to see whether an appeal to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal is in order and that the appeal, if fo...