100,000 people are waiting for repatriation! Visa rejection is accelerating, Australian officials warn: Don’t abuse this visa, name these two people!

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100,000 people await repatriation;

Official roll call of applicants from both countries

Australia has always attracted people from all over the world with its sunny beaches and relaxed lifestyle. However, as more and more foreigners try to extend their stay in Australia by “taking advantage of loopholes”, the Australian government has also begun to strengthen supervision.

Recently, the Australian Department of Home Affairs issued a warning that some visa holders are trying to extend their stay in Australia by applying for a Protection Visa.

In response, the authorities stated that this approach was an abuse of the immigration system.The speed of rejection of relevant visas has increased significantly, and may even lead to serious consequences such as long-term entry ban!

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The latest data reveals that Australia’s immigration system is facing increasingly severe challenges.

Nearly 100,000 people in Australia are still stranded in Australia waiting to be deported after their protection visa applications were rejectedmeanwhile, tens of thousands of applications are queuing up for review. A large number of applicants from China, India and other countries were involved. Many of them originally entered the country on student visas, but applied for asylum when their visas were about to expire.

Recently, the Australian Department of Home Affairs also specifically named applicants from two countries, saying that it has recently been found that more and more visa holders from the United Kingdom and Ireland are applying for protection visas when their original visas are about to expire, so as to continue to stay in Australia.

The latest data shows that as of July 31, 2025, a total of 98,979 people whose protection visa applications were rejected are still stranded in Australia and have not yet been repatriated, while there are still 27,100 applications waiting for approval.

These include those found to be illegal residents, those holding bridging visas, and applicants who are appealing through the Administrative Review Tribunal (ART), with a few cases even reaching the Federal Court for final determination.

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Dr. Abul Rizvi, former deputy minister of immigration and immigration policy expert, said that based on the current backlog of cases in the Administrative Review Tribunal, approximately 50,000 people have exhausted all appeal channels but are still staying in Australia illegally.

Data shows that in the past financial year, Australia received a total of 23,576 new protection visa applications, of which only 4,036 were approved, while 24,924 applications were rejected.

At the same time, between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025, Australia only deported an average of about 12 failed applicants per month, and a total of 162 people were deported throughout the year.

This number is almost negligible compared with the size of the backlog of nearly 100,000 people.

It is worth noting thatAmong these asylum applications, many applicants originally held student visas, but chose to apply for asylum when their visas were about to expire, hoping to extend their stay in Australia.

Analysis of Department of Home Affairs data shows that India and China, Australia’s largest sources of international students, submitted a large number of applications to the system, but the vast majority were rejected.

Among them, Indian applicants submitted 2,596 domestic protection visa applications, and 5,633 applications were rejected during the same period, accounting for more than one-fifth of all visa rejection cases. However, only about 42 to 60 people were finally approved.

Chinese applicants submitted 2,494 applications, 3,538 were rejected, and about 290 people were granted asylum, accounting for about 7% of the total approvals.

The protection visa (subclass 866) was originally created for asylum seekers. The application fee is only about A$50. It is mainly aimed at those who may face serious harm or persecution after returning to their country of origin.

The Department of Home Affairs stresses that this type of visa is by no means intended for people who wish to extend their holiday or continue to work in Australia.

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Officials noted that some people were influenced by incorrect advice from friends or on social media and mistakenly believed that they could “buy out time” by applying for a protection visa.

In fact, this kind of behavior not only has a very low success rate, but may also have a serious impact on an individual’s future immigration record.

Jana Favero, deputy chief executive of the Australian Refugee Resource Center (ASRC), also said that this behavior actually exposed loopholes in the immigration system. She pointed out that if an immigration system operates efficiently, fairly and quickly, it should not be easily exploited.

At the same time, the agency stated thatThey have not received requests for asylum from British or Irish citizens, meaning many applications may not meet genuine refugee criteria.

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Abuse of visa or face lifelong record,

Even long-term ban on entry

The Australian government has warned that applicants who do not meet the conditions for a protection visa but still submit an application may face a series of serious consequences.

First of all, once a visa is refused, the refusal record will be retained in the personal immigration file for life.

Secondly, the visa currently held by the applicant may also be directly canceled.

What’s more serious is that some applicants may also face long-term bans from re-entering Australia, and their future applications for visas from other countries may also be affected.

The government specifically reminds you not to take the risk of submitting an ineligible application based on a friend’s recommendation or online information.

Officials call on applicants to be sure to understand the visa rules so as not to affect their chances of re-entering Australia due to a wrong decision in the future.

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Data shows that Australia has become a desirable place to live for many British and Irish citizens.

As of June 2023, the number of British-born people living in Australia has exceeded 1.1 million, making them the largest overseas-born group in Australia.

At the same time, the number of residents born in Ireland continues to grow, reaching approximately 103,000 in 2024, almost doubling in the past 20 years.

Immigration lawyers say many young people who come to Australia on one-year working holiday visas ultimately want to stay long-term.

However, in the context of increasingly stringent immigration policies, trying to extend your stay through non-compliant means may bring not opportunities but irreversible consequences.

Faced with the increasing number of applications and the huge backlog of cases, the Australian government is considering taking new measures.This includes expediting the processing of applications that are clearly ineligible, prioritizing newly submitted cases, and strengthening supervision of immigration agents and visa agents.

At the same time, the government once again reminds all visa holders not to try to extend their stay in Australia through loopholes or wrong advice.