In alignment with the commencement of the new Sponsored Parent (Temporary) Class GH, Subclass 870 visa, this new class and subclass has been added to the drop-down list for Current Visa class and Current Visa subclass within the Passport & Visa layout.

*The Department of Home Affairs have announced that applications to sponsor a parent for a Sponsored Parent (Temporary) visa will be open from 17 April 2019. Once a sponsorship application has been approved, a sponsored parent will be able to apply for a Sponsored Parent (Temporary) visa. Applications for the visa will open from 1 July 2019.

The Immigration Law matters in LEAP currently display the Primary applicant’s (and Secondary applicant) current visa (as entered in this Passport & Visa layout) in the matter view. For more details on how to make the most of immigration law matters in LEAP, please refer to the corresponding information sheet on the LEAP Community page – How to complete an Immigration law matter. There is also corresponding commentary on the new Sponsored Parent (Temporary) in the By Lawyers immigration guide.

The Skills table is now included as a default table in the immigration, visa, merits review and judicial review matter types.

Within the Skills table layout, clients have to option to record details of the Primary Visa Applicant’s (and if applicable, the Applicant’s Spouse’s) nominated occupation and corresponding ANZSCO code.

The Skills table layout also contains the relevant factors that contribute to a skilled visa applicant’s points under Schedule 6D of the Migration Regulations 1994 including:

• Age qualifications
• English language qualifications
• Overseas employment experience qualifications
• Australian professional year qualifications
• Educational qualifications
• Australian study qualifications
• Credentialled community language qualifications
• Study in regional Australia or a low-population growth metropolitan area qualifications
• Partner skill qualifications
• State or Territory nomination qualifications
• Designated area sponsorship qualifications

Once the relevant number of points are entered into the applicable fields for the qualifications, the sum of applicable points will be tallied up in the Total Points field at the bottom.

These points will also display in the matter view.

Further details on how to complete immigration matter types in LEAP can be found here.

Following client feedback, the Content team have added Bridging Visa Granted to the suite of Critical Dates within the relevant immigration matter types (immigration, judicial review, merits review, ministerial intervention).

This complements the existing Critical Dates, Bridging Visa Application Date and Bridging Visa Expiry Date, contained within the immigration, visa, merits review and judicial review matter types.

To utilise these dates for the workflow of your matters, you can create “Recurring Task” templates or “Due Date Tasks” based on the critical dates entered within your matter (which integrate with Outlook). See LEAP Communities to create Recurring Task templates across your Immigration matter types so that these are created once and used on multiple matters.

See LEAP Communities to also create Due Date Tasks.  Within the Task created, you can also:

• Assign a Task to other staff
• Add/record Time/Fee Entry
• Create and email Status Reports to staff
• Set a Follow Up
• Set Recurrence
• Assign to another Matter
• Mark Complete

Tasks created will appear in the Tasks List of the matter and will be crossed/grayed out when you mark them as Complete.  You will also receive ‘Task Due Notifications’ in your matter lists.  These notifications are hyperlinks, therefore, you can click on them and you will be taken directly to the Task itself in the matter.

For more articles regarding Calendar & Tasks see LEAP Communities.

NOTE: If you would like the new critical dates to appear in your “existing” matters, you will need to change the matter type to a different matter type, save, and then change back again to the correct matter type, this will “refresh” the critical date scheme.

The following NEW Administrative Appeals Tribunal – MR Division forms have been added to our Immigration Law Matter types:

• Form FOI – Request for access to documents under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (LL-FED-AAT-24)
• Form MR1 – Registered Migration Agent Notice under section 312B – MR Division (LL-FED-AAT-20)
• Form MR5 – Appointment of Representative Appointment of Authroised Recipient – MR Division (LL-FED-AAT-21)
• Form MR6 – Change of Contact Details – MR Division (LL-FED-AAT-22)
• Form MR14 – Consent to Release Personal Information – MR Division (LL-FED-AAT-23)

The forms are included in each of the LEAP Forms folders for all six new Immigration Law Matter types: