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Inquiry into immigration treatment of disability

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Have your say on the migration health requirement

The formal submission period for the inquiry ended on 28 October 2009, although the Committee is continuing to accept submissions. Please refer to our brochure called preparing a submission for more information.

The Committee would welcome submissions from people with a disability, employers, business organisations, disability and community services providers, and any other interested individuals or organisations who would like to make comment.

If you, a family member or a friend have had issues with the health requirement due to a disability, disease or condition, the Committee is also interested your story. Submissions can be of any length or format, and it doesn’t matter if you’re not Australian or not in Australia.

Following the terms of reference, submissions might choose to respond to the following questions:

Is the current process for assessing a visa applicant against the health requirement fair and transparent?
What types of contributions and costs should be considered?
How do we measure these?
Are there additional factors that should be considered?
Do you have personal experience of this?
What principles should apply to the assessment of visa applications against the health requirement? Should there be exceptions?

You do not have to provide a view on all of these points. The Committee welcomes your responses to any or all of these questions. The full terms of reference are available through the link above.

It is preferred that submissions are lodged by email, although we will accept submissions in a range of formats including typewritten and handwritten documents. If possible, please provide your submission in Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format so that the secretariat will be able to supply copies on request to people who may have difficulties accessing PDF versions of submissions, such as through screen readers.

Submissions should be emailed to jscm@aph.gov.au or sent to the Committee.

The Committee usually publishes all submissions received in full to facilitate public participation in the inquiry process. However, if you are an individual and have concerns about publication, for example, due to information provided about your own health or the health of a family member, or due to ongoing migration or legal proceedings, you may request that your name be withheld or your submission be kept confidential. Please contact the committee secretariat for more information.

Submissions will be listed below in Portable Document Format (PDF) once they have been received and authorised by the Committee for publication. To view or print the submissions, you will need Adobe Acrobat® PDF Reader, which can be downloaded free of charge from Adobe®.

If an alternative format, such as hard copy, large print or Rich Text Format (RTF) is required, please contact the committee secretariat.

There is currently a total of 102 submissions and 2 supplementary submission in the following list.