suraweeraneil

Frankly, I do not know to differentiate this. My sponsor is my brother, Am I a non immediate family member or not?

If they do, then Government should not loose any case in courts. Even with the asylum seekers.

I fully agree with you.

That means you believe that we have a chance to win. great,

That has to be decided by a lawyer. If he feels we do not have a better standing at the courts, Our sponsors can come forward and fight the battle. As far as I know, last time nobody challenge it in courts. Only one person complaint to the tribunal which has no power to overthrow ministers decision. Also they introduced cap and cease for the applicants who applied within 2 years of the effective date. So, they might not bother to challenge it.

Sometimes I suspect DIBP officials logged in this forum as applicants to discourage us moving forward . Anyway as I mentioned earlier, we have to give it a try. As you say It is worth either we win or loose.

We did not think of a legal battle earlier, because we thought they will process our applications one fine day. But now our hopes are gone. Now is the time to fight this. I will contribute to this wholeheartedly even if they do not consider my application, but some of our team members ,at least 1 of us get the benefit of our effort. I am in need to migrate to Australia. But if I can become a seed and help someone else , I would not be reluctant to do so. Even if they decide to process 10 applications per year, 10 of us will full fill their desire. I do not try to offend you. I respect your view. At the same time I wish to support this fight and become a candle even to future applicants.

You can count on me. I will join the club to fight against this unfair decision. I believe we have to get at least 100 members together. A good lawyer in Australia would charge minimum $5000 for 1 sitting. So with more than 100 members it will not cost a lot individually. This is not everything. Will take this as 1 option. As somebody mentioned, they cannot take our 6 years of waiting just like that. This can be serious violation of our rights.

Only hope is that they will have a new immigration minister with their new Government and the new minister will cease this

This is really a serious situation. They have implemented a similar program in June 2009 and refunded the application fee of the applicants whose applications have not been processed. I think this time they just refuse our applications without a single cent. ''5. Section 39(2) of the Act, when read with this determination and the relevant criterion for each class, has the effect that when grants of that relevant subclass have reached the ministerially determined maximum, any outstanding applications for visas of that subclass are taken not to have been made.'' As you mentioned they are going to refuse our applications. Only 36 lucky winners will be there