Roundtable meeting of the Hon Andrew Giles

Community groups , leaders , migration agents/lawyers attended the meeting

The Hon Steve Georganas MP, Federal Member for Adelaide, has always taken a lead in organising forums and meetings to address and raise the matters directly with the concerned Ministers . The Hon Steve organised an exclusive roundtable event with the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs, the Hon Andrew Giles MP in Adelaide . This provided opportunity to community groups, leaders , migration agents and lawyers to attend this rare opportunity to learn about what the Albanese Labor Government is doing in this space. This meeting also provided the opportunity to address and raise the matters about immigration, citizenship, and multicultural affairs directly with the Hon Minister and the Hon Steve Georganas. The Hon Russell Wortley MLC , The Hon Tung Ngo MLC and the official staff of the Minister and MP office , attended the meeting as well .

The Hon Steve in his welcome address extended his token of thanks to the Hon Andrew Giles MP for taking the time to come and meet with community group, leaders, and other interested parties to talk about serious issues within the Home Affairs portfolio.

The Hon Andrews Giles stated that by bringing the visa backlog down from almost 1 million to under 600,000 and committing more resources to our visa processing system, ensuring that people who want to live and work in Australia have the opportunity to do it.

During the Q & A session , The Hon Minister Andrews Giles advised that:

4There has been progress in Citizenship applications, but if there are delays it is mostly due to barriers because of the lack of documentations

4The department is working to improve the Citizenship tests for Elderly as the feedbacks received.

4Family Reunion visas has been in the back of the que, but now it has been brought forward.

4150,000 plus people have applied for Humanitarian visas, Australia cannot support all those applications and therefore the department is working to identify those at higher risk.

The Hon Minister also took notes of the important issues being raised by the attendees .