I have written extensively about many issues affecting Filipino visa applicants to Australia and how events beyond their control significantly affects their ability to secure a visa grant for any of the following visa applications to Australia from the Philippines because of Public Interest Criteria 4020 namely: –
skilled migration visas
business visas
temporary visas
student visas
family visas
As a Filipino visa applicant, you must prove a) your true identity and b) provide true information with your application to the Department of Home Affairs.
The department might refuse your visa application for failing to satisfy Public Interest Criterion (PIC) 4020 if you, or any of the members of your family unit:
do not satisfy them as to your true identity
provide bogus documents or information that is false and misleading in relation to your current visa application or
provided bogus documents or information that is false and misleading in relation to a visa that you held in the 12 months before making your current application.
The department might not grant you a visa (which has PIC 4020 as a criterion) for a period of ten years if you, or a member of your family unit, have a visa application refused because of a failure to satisfy them as to your identity.
Also, the department might not grant you a visa (which has PIC 4020 as a criterion) for a period of three years if you, or a member of your family unit, have a visa application refused due to providing bogus documents or information that is false and misleading.
Under PIC 4020, a visa might be refused if bogus documents or information that is false or misleading is given to either the Department of Home Affairs or the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT).
One such document is Birth Certificates issued by Philippine Statistics Office (PSA) through the National Statistics Office (NSO) in the Philippines.
If you do have such issues with the information included in your current Philippine Birth Certificate and wish to discuss the correct procedure to lodge a temporary or permanent visa application to Australia from the Philippines using a Philippine Birth Certificate with in-accurate information included in that particular document then contact RESPALL directly of a free initial consultation.
The solutions and remedies for such a concern is provided by the Full Court in the key case of Trivedi v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection (2014) FCAFC 42.
In Trivedi, Justice Buchanan made the following observations about PIC 4020:
“It is apparent from the terms of PIC 4020 that it is addressed (to) the problem of attempts to work a fraud or deception on the assessment of claims for a visa … I would not infer any apparent intention to disqualify a visa applicant who could explain an innocent mistake in a document or information provided by them. PIC 4020 is not directed, in my view, to innocent, unintended or accidental matters. However, different questions arise when information or documents provided in support of an application are revealed as false, in the purposely untrue sense of that term.
So before ‘you attempt your own remedies about issues included in your current Philippines Birth Certificate or convince yourself that your following application needs to be presented in a particular way’ triggering a PIC 4020 response from the Department of Home Affairs I strongly suggest to contact RESPALL (Migration) Australia first and allow us to apply tried and proven strategies that will secure your future visa grant for Australia from the Philippines.
Thank you and as always, MABUHAY!
