02:01 AEST Sat Jul 28 2012
The legal status of more than 130,000 foreign work visa decisions made by a federal government body is under a cloud thanks to a bureaucratic bungle, it's been reported.
Both Joe Hockey and Julia Gillard, in respective workplace ministry roles, failed to ratify Trades Recognition Australia (TRA) as a relevant authority under the Migration Act to ensure foreign workers met Australian standards before being approved for employment, Fairfax reports.
The paperwork oversight has implications for 135,000 skilled assessments made between 2007 and 2011, the Saturday Age newspaper says.
It said immigration experts believed the blunder could have profound implications for many visa applications.
A spokesman for federal Tertiary Education and Skills Minister Chris Evans has confirmed the bungle, saying steps had been taken to rectify the situation, the Saturday Age reported.
The Howard government set up TRA in 2007, but it wasn't properly empowered as the assessing authority until 2011 by the Gillard government.
The oversight emerged in March when Indian national Gurinder Singh successfully overturned a Migration Review Tribunal decision to refuse him a visa on the grounds that he'd given false information about his work experience. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
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