Kaur v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs [2024] FCA 63

Federal Court of Australia

Kaur v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs [2024] FCA 63 Appeal from: Kaur v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs [2021] FCCA 876

File number(s): VID 243 of 2021

Judgment of: O'BRYAN J

Date of judgment: 8 February 2024

Catchwords: PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – application for adjournment – where appellant departed Australia for Canada – where appellant did not inform the Court of travel and made no application for adjournment until week of hearing – application refused MIGRATION – appeal from decision of the (then) Federal Circuit Court of Australia – where appellants raised nine grounds of appeal – where seven grounds of appeal directed to different decision of the Federal Circuit Court to which appellants were not a party – Singh v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs [2023] FCAFC 123 applied – where other grounds do not demonstrate or identify error – appeal dismissed

Legislation: Migration Act 1958 (Cth) s 65 Migration Regulations 1994 (Cth) reg 5.19, Sch 2 cls 187.233, 187.311

Cases cited: BTI15 v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs [2022] FCAFC 49 Kaur v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs [2021] FCCA 876 Print a Portal Pty Ltd v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs [2021] FCCA 877 Singh v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs [2023] FCAFC 123