Student visa backlog blows out as Tribunal struggles to cope

A record -breaking increase in a student visa is sinking the Australia’s Migration Court without visible relief of Dr Abul Rizvi until the end of 2025.

ADMINISTRATIVE INVESTIGATION COURSE DEPARTMENT RECEPING STUDENT RENEWING WORK LIST (ART) In March 2025, 34,470 broke a new record in May 2025 from 29,508. (Art did not publish data for April, but I asked me to provide and provide me.)

Before Covid, student rejection on land was less than 10,000 and relatively constant. These accumulated work will take years and will receive a tremendous amount of money to be discussed. Ministers will be tired of supporting the Ministry of Interior (Dha)

(Data Source: ART)

The large primary land accumulation in DHA (the data is more than 100,000 when the data is last published), the highly rejected ratio based on subjective criteria (around 75 percent), and the lack of art resources to cope with the accumulation of student in art will continue to result in art.

The oldest thing in which any regulatory changes can be made is November 2025, which does not affect the already placed applications (accumulated participation in both DHA and art). In addition, it will take 6-9 months for additional resources where art can be provided to hire and educate additional personnel and art members, and it will start to have an impact on the processing rates.

This means that for the rest of the accumulated work for the rest of 2025, it will probably continue to grow by about 2,000 per month, subject to DHA Kara student processing rates. This will slow down the fall rate of net migration, as expected by the Treasury. This will make the ministers even more angry.

Other aspects of the migration in art (non -asylum) accumulation in the student strongly contain the following:

At the end of June 2023, the temporary graduate rejection rose from 797 to 1,904 in May 2025; And
At the end of June 2022, the growing student visa cancellations from 138 from 138 (when the sources of migration for migration have been low for a long time, and students had unlimited business rights) to 966 in May 2025.

The total migration in art (non -noble) accumulated work rose in March 2025 from 46,371 to May 2025 to 53,036. Migration (non -noble) accumulated work, before 43,000 before 43,000, a total of 100 was shot before, with total migration and noble backlog, 100 in total. 2025.

This is one of the inevitable consequences of net migration explosion directed by students. In addition, since the government is trying to process applications faster and tighten the policy, other parts of the visa system will increase further in other parts of land applications for permanent migration (NOTE, the government has not announced the permanent migration program for 2025-26) and asylum.

It takes years to address the flow results of a net migration explosion directed by students (or other temporary visas) and is costly both financially and in terms of public trust in immigration management.

If the 2028 will take control of it before the Federal elections, the government will need to act quickly.

DR ABUL Rizvi An independent Australian columnist And a former deputy secretary of the Ministry of Immigration. You can follow Abul on Twitter @Rizviabul.

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