The Arrangements for Child Visa Applications 2016/051 was amended vide the Migration (LIN 20/179: Arrangements for child visa applications) Amendment Instrument 2020 dated 15 July 2020. Accordingly, a compilation of the Arrangements for Child Visa Applications 2016/051 incorporates the amended text of the law and is in force from 17 July 2020, registered on 22 July 2020.
The compilation incorporates the amendment to a drafting error, where the option for an application for visa Subclass 445, for a dependent child outside Australia to be made outside Australia, was removed vide the Migration (LIN 20/049: Arrangements for child visa applications) Amendment Instrument 2020. After the amendment, an application by a dependent child of a visa holder of Subclass 309, 310, 445, 820 or 826 visa outside Australia can be made through Form 918.
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