Migration (COVID-19 Pandemic event for Temporary Activity (Subclass 408) visa) Repeal Instrument (LIN 24/003) 2024 dated 23 January 2024 repeals Migration (COVID-19 Pandemic event for Temporary Activity (Subclass 408) visa) Instrument (LIN 22/046) 2022.
For the grant of a Subclass 408 visa, the applicant must satisfy the primary criteria that the applicant must be a person to whom a clause in subdivision 408.2 of Schedule 2 to the Migration Regulations applies. Clause 408.229 will apply to an applicant if that applicant seeks to enter or remain in Australia to undertake work directly associated with the AGEE, specified in a legislative instrument made by the Minister and the applicant is in a class of persons specified in the instrument in relation to the event.
LIN 22/046 specified the event known as the ‘COVID-19 pandemic’ as an ‘Australian Government endorsed event’ (AGEE) and classes of persons for the purposes of Subclass 408 visa. Migration (COVID-19 Pandemic event for Temporary Activity (Subclass 408) visa) Repeal Instrument (LIN 24/003) 2024 repeals (LIN 22/046) Therefore, from 1 February 2024, COVID-19 pandemic will no longer be a specified event for the purposes of sc408 visa.
The instrument is registered on the Federal Register of Legislations on 24 January 2024 and commenced on 1 February 2024.
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