Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00115:reg:5:p21
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00115
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 5 (pt 21/34)
Character Range: 321757–324462

must refund the fee for a request for priority consideration of a visa application if the Minister decides, under regulation 2.12F, to refund the visa application charge paid in relation to that application.
 (2) The refund under this regulation must be paid to the person who paid the fee.
 (3) A refund under this regulation may be paid:
 (a) in Australian currency; or
 (b) if the amount of the fee in respect of which the refund is being paid was paid in another currency, in that other currency.

Division 2.3—Communication between applicant and Minister

2.13  Communication with Minister
 (1) For the purposes of section 52 of the Act (which deals with the way in which an applicant or interested person must communicate with the Minister), an applicant or interested person must communicate with the Minister about a visa application in the way provided by this regulation.
 (2) Except as provided by subregulation (3), the communication must be in writing.
 (3) The communication may be oral if it is:
 (a) a communication about an application for a bridging visa; or
 (b) an enquiry about the stage reached in the consideration of a visa application; or
 (c) an oral application; or
 (d) a communication about an application for an Electronic Travel Authority (Class UD) visa.
 (4) A written communication must include:
 (a) the applicant's full name, as set out in the application; and
 (b) the applicant's date of birth; and
 (c) one of the following:
 (i) the applicant's client number;
 (ii) the Immigration file number;
 (iii) the number of the receipt issued by Immigration when the visa application was made; and
 (d) if the application was made outside Australia, the name of the office at which the application was given to the Minister.
 (5) Subject to subregulation (6), a document accompanying a written communication must be:
 (a) the original; or
 (b) a copy of the original certified in writing to be a true copy by:
 (i) a Justice of the Peace; or
 (ii) a Commissioner for Declarations; or
 (iii) a person before whom a statutory declaration may be made under the Statutory Declarations Act 1959; or
 (iv) a registered migration agent whose registration is not:
 (A) suspended; or
 (B) subject to a caution; or
 (v) if the copy is certified in a place outside Australia:
 (A) a registered migration agent mentioned in subparagraph (iv); or
 (B) a person who is the equivalent of a Justice of the Peace or Commissioner for Declarations in that place.
Note: Section 303 of the Act provides that the Migration Agents Registration Authority may suspend the registration of a registered migration agent or caution him or her. If a registered migration agent is subject to a suspension