In September, Frank Chung at News.com.au reported that “international students are overwhelming Australia’s asylum system with bogus refugee applications, as the country’s deportation backlog surges towards 100,000”.
Abul Rizvi told Chung that “there’s an increasing number of student visa holders applying for asylum”, adding that there are likely to be around 50,000 migrants who have exhausted all their appeal avenues and remain in the country unlawfully.
This week, Chief Executive and Principal Registrar at the Administrative Review Tribunal (ART) Michael Hawkins told Senate Estimates that the ART was being overwhelmed by an “explosion” of international students appealing their visa rejections.
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