Migration (LIN 19/183: Arrangements for Working Holiday Visa Applications) Instrument 2019
I, Gaye Lalor, Delegate of the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs, make the following instrument.
Dated 26 June 2019
Gaye Lalor
Gaye Lalor
Acting Senior Executive Service, Band 1, Immigration and Visa Services Division and Delegate of the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Name
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Definitions
5 Schedules
Part 2—Arrangements for Working Holiday Visa Applications
6 Working Holiday (Temporary) (Class TZ) visa applications
Part 3—Working Holiday Eligible Passports
7 Subclass 417 (Working Holiday) visa eligible passports
Part 4—Application provision
8 Application of this instrument
Schedule 1—Countries or regions, passport conditions and age requirements
Schedule 2—Amendments
Migration (LIN 18/173: Arrangements for Working Holiday Visa Applications) Instrument 2018 (F2018L01507)
(1) This instrument is the Migration (LIN 19/183: Arrangements for Working Holiday Visa Applications) Instrument 2019.
(2) This instrument may be cited as LIN 19/183.
This instrument commences on 1 July 2019.
This instrument is made under the following provisions of the Regulations:
(a) subregulation 2.07(5);
(b) subitem 1225(5) of Schedule 1;
(c) subclause 417.211(2) of Schedule 2.
In this instrument:
authorising email means an email authorising an applicant to make an application in a different place or a different manner.
Regulations means the Migration Regulations 1994.
The instrument specified in Schedule 2 to this instrument is repealed as set out in that Schedule, and any item in Schedule 1 to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
Part 2—Arrangements for Working Holiday Visa Applications
6 Working Holiday (Temporary) (Class TZ) visa applications
Approved form
(1) For the purposes of subitem 1225(1) of Schedule 1 to the Regulations, the specified approved form for making an application for a Working Holiday (Temporary) (Class TZ) visa is:
(a) 1150 (Internet); or
(b) if an officer of the Department has sent an authorising email to the applicant—1150.
Place and manner
(2) For the purposes of subitem 1225(3) of Schedule 1 to the Regulations, the specified place and manner for making an application for a Working Holiday (Temporary) (Class TZ) visa is:
(a) if an officer of the Department has sent an authorising email to the applicant:
(i) the applicant must attach a copy of the authorising email to the approved form mentioned in paragraph (1)(b); and
(ii) the applicant must submit the application in accordance with the directions in the authorising email by the end of the next day after which the authorising email was sent (AEST or AEDST as applicable to the date on which the authorising email was sent); or
(b) if paragraph (a) does not apply to the applicant—as an internet application.
Part 3—Working Holiday Eligible Passports
7 Subclass 417 (Working Holiday) visa eligible passports
(1) For the purposes of subclause 417.211(2) of Schedule 2 to the Regulations, the following kind of working holiday eligible passport is specified:
(a) the passport is issued by a country or region specified in an item in Column 1 of the table in Schedule 1; and
(b) the passport satisfies the conditions specified for that item in Column 2 of that table.
(2) For the purposes of subparagraph 417.211(2)(b)(ii) of Schedule 2 to the Regulations, a younger age of an applicant from a country or a region specified in an item of Column 1 of the table in Schedule 1 is specified in Column 3 for that item.
8 Application of this instrument
(1) This instrument applies in relation to an application for a Working Holiday (Temporary) (Class TZ) visa that is made on or after 1 July 2019.
(2) Despite the repeal of Migration (LIN 18/173: Arrangements for Working Holiday Visa Applications) Instrument 2018 (F2018L01507) in Schedule 2, that instrument continues to apply in relation to an application for a Working Holiday (Temporary) (Class TZ) visa that is made but not finally determined before 1 July 2019.
Schedule 1—Countries or regions, passport conditions and age requirements
Note: Where no younger age is specified, subparagraph 417.211(2)(b)(i) of Schedule 2 to the Regulations applies.
Item | Column 1 Country or region | Column 2 Conditions | Column 3 Specified younger age (if any) |
1 | Belgium | Passport must indicate that the applicant is a national of Belgium. | 30 |
2 | Canada | Passport must indicate that the applicant is a national of Canada. |
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3 | Cyprus | Passport must indicate that the applicant is a national of Cyprus. | 30 |
4 | Denmark | Passport must indicate that the applicant is a national of Denmark. | 30 |
5 | Estonia | Passport must indicate that the applicant is a national of Estonia. | 30 |
6 | Finland | Passport must indicate that the applicant is a national of Finland. | 30 |
7 | France | Passport must indicate that the applicant is a national of France. |
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8 | Germany | Passport must indicate that the applicant is a national of Germany. | 30 |
9 | Hong Kong - Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China | Nil. | 30 |
10 | Ireland | Passport must indicate that the applicant is a national of Ireland. |
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11 | Italy | Passport must indicate that the applicant is a national of Italy. | 30 |
12 | Japan | Passport must indicate that the applicant is a national of Japan. | 30 |
13 | Malta | Passport must indicate that the applicant is a national of Malta. | 30 |
14 | Netherlands | Passport must indicate that the applicant is a national of the Netherlands. | 30 |
15 | Norway | Passport must indicate that the applicant is a national of Norway. | 30 |
16 | Republic of Korea | Passport must indicate that the applicant is a national of the Republic of Korea. | 30 |
17 | Sweden | Passport must indicate that the applicant is a national of Sweden. | 30 |
18 | Taiwan | Passport must not purport to be an official or diplomatic passport. | 30 |
19 | United Kingdom | Passport must indicate that the applicant’s nationality is British Citizen or British National (Overseas). | 30 |
1 The whole of the instrument
Repeal the instrument.