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With currently about 100 visa subclasses, Australian Immigration Law is a complex system.

For instance,

the Migration Act 1958 consists of over 1,000 pages spread over 2 volumes,
the Migration Regulations 1994 consists of over 2,200 pages spread over 7 volumes,
there are over 130 migration related legislative instruments; and
countless of pages of policies (commonly known as the Procedural Advice Manual 3 or PAM3) published by the Department of Home Affairs.
The ever-changing migration legislations, regulations and policies can make your visa journey a stressful and confusing process.

ProActive Legal is a specialist immigration law firm that focuses on providing practical, effective and tailored solutions to achieving your migration goals. The Solicitor Director of ProActive Legal is one of only 42 Accredited Specialists in Immigration Law in New South Wales.

We have expertise in providing advice and representing clients in the full array of immigration and Australian citizenship situations. It includes:

‧ Visiting Australia: Visitor visas for tourism or business purposes and Working Holiday visas.
‧ Studying in Australia: Students visas whether to study English courses, primary or secondary school, university or vocational courses
‧ Working in Australia: Skilled migration visas, employer sponsored temporary visas (subclass 482 visa) , employer nominated permanent residence (ENS) visas, regional sponsored migration scheme (RSMS), State/Territory nominated skilled migration visas.
‧ Specialised work activity in Australia: Short stay and long stay business visas, training and research visas, entertainment visas, etc.
‧ Investing or establishing a business in Australia: Business and innovation visas, business talent visas, investor and significant investor visas.
‧ Family visas: partner visas, parent visas including prospective marriage visas, child visas, carer visas, orphan relatives visa, remaining relative visas, aged-dependant visas, and New Zealand family relationship visas.
‧ Other temporary visas such as investor retirement visas, medical treatment visas
‧ Refugee, humanitarian and protections visas.
Our expertise don’t just stop at visa applications, assisting clients to resolve and achieve the best outcome in challenging matters such as the following are what makes as different.

‧ Challenging legality of Department of Home Affairs’ policy or interpretation of legislative provision in appropriate situation.
‧ Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) Migration and Refugee Division (formally the Migration Review Tribunal (MRT) and Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT)) merits review of Department of Home Affairs’ decision to refuse the grant of a visa or to cancel a visa.
‧ AAT merits review of Department of Home Affairs’ decision to refuse to the grant of a visa or to cancel a visa on character grounds, or refusal of Australian Citizenship.
‧ Representing client in appeals to the Federal Circuit Court, Federal Court of Australia and the High Court of Australia of decisions to refuse or cancel a visa including airport visa cancellation.
‧ Making ministerial intervention requests
‧ Assisting with seeking for wavier of health requirements
‧ Assisting corporation in sponsorship business monitoring in relation to compliance of sponsorship obligations.
‧ Family violence, waiver of sponsorship limitation, etc. in Partner visa application
‧ Complicated Australian citizenship application involving seeking residence exemptions, character concerns, and children that lived in Australia the first 10 years of their life but without a valid visa)
‧ Bridging E visa refusals
‧ Application for waiver of No Further Stay visa condition

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