Amendment of Migration Regulations 1994 relating to personal identifiers

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Amendment of Migration Regulations 1994 relating to personal identifiersCommencement: 1 July 2011Client summaryFrom 1 July 2011, the Migration Regulations 1994 (the Regulations) are amended to:

• enable the Minister to specify in an instrument in writing a place that an applicant for a visa who is not in Australia at the time of the application is to provide certain personal identifiers; and
• prescribe fingerprints as a type of personal identifier for the purposes of paragraph 40(3C)(a) of the Migration Act 1958.
  

Affected legislationThe following provisions of the Regulations are amended:

• Part 2, paragraphs 2.04(1)(a) and (b) the words ‘subregulation (2) or (4)’, are omitted
• Part 2, paragraphs 2.04(1)(a) and (b) the words ‘subregulation (2) or (3)’, are inserted
• Part 2, subregulation 2.04(3), is substituted
• Part 2, subregulation 2.04(4), is substituted
• Part 2, subregulation 2.04(5), is substituted
• Part 2, subregulation 2.04(6), is inserted
  

Additional informationNil.
Transitional provisionsThese amendments apply in relation to an application for a visa made on or after 1 July 2011.
FormsNil.
InstructionsPAM3 – Act – ID – Biometrics for Visa Processing Program-offshore will be amended to reflect these changes.