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Asylum Statistics 2010-11 bi-annual publication was prepared by Systems, Program Evidence and Knowledge Section of

the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) in Australia.

For enquiries about the contents of this bulletin please contact:

Systems, Program Evidence and Knowledge Section

Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC)

PO Box 25

Belconnen, ACT 2616

Australia

Email: [email protected]

This publication and a wide variety of other statistical information on departmental activities is available on the departments

website at www.immi.gov.au

Commonwealth of Australia 2011

This work is copyright. Apart from any use permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any

process without written permission from the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC).


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Contents

Background ...........................................................................................................................................................................2

Section 1: Protection visa statistics ........................................................................................................................................ 3

Protection visa applications lodged ........................................................................................................................................ 4

Primary processingof applications .......................................................................................................................................12

Reviews by Refugee Review Tribunal ................................................................................................................................... 19

Final decisions .....................................................................................................................................................................22

Section 2: Refugee status determination statistics for Irregular Maritime Arrivals .................................................................. 29

Refugee status determination requests ................................................................................................................................30

Primary processing ..............................................................................................................................................................32

Independent Merit Review outcomes ..................................................................................................................................35

Final decisions .....................................................................................................................................................................37

Glossary ..............................................................................................................................................................................39


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2 Asylum statistics

Background

This publication provides statistical information about people who applied for Protection visas within Australia

(onshore protection).

Australias obligation under the Refugees Convention is to provide protection to people who are in Australia and who facepersecution in their home country on account of their race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or

political opinion. This includes not returning refugees or asylum seekers to places where their lives or liberties are in danger

(non-refoulement).

The onshore protection component of the Humanitarian Program enables people seeking asylum in Australia to have their

claims for protection assessed in Australia. People in Australia who are found to be refugees and who satisfy health and

character assessments are granted Protection visas.

This publication is in two parts. The rst part provides Protection visa statistics which do not include irregular maritime

arrivals (IMAs) seeking asylum who have been refused or who are awaiting completion of refugee status determination.

Figures are provided in aggregate and separated into non-IMA and IMA components. The second part provides refugee

status determination statistics for IMAs.

Statistics in this publication relate to the number of events of a given type occurring within a particular time period. These

events do not necessarily relate to the same group of people. An individual may apply for a Protection visa or seek refugee

status determination in one time period and receive an outcome at the primary, review or nally determined stage in another

time period.

Protection visa gures relating to 200506 to 200910 are as ofcially revised at the end of 200910 (data extracted

from departmental systems on 2 July 2010). Figures relating to 201011 are provisional (data extracted on

31 December 2010).

All gures relating to refugee status determination for IMAs are provisional (data extracted on 8 April 2011).


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4 Asylum statistics

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5000

6000

7000

8000

9000

Number

Total

200506 200607 200708

Program year2

200909 200910 201011

(first six months)

non-IMA

IMA

Applications lodged

Figure 1: Number of applications1 lodged

Source: ICSE

Table 1: Number of applications1 lodged

Program

Year2Principal applicants Dependants Total

non-IMA IMA Total non-IMA IMA Total non-IMA IMA Total

200506 2648 87 2735 542 14 556 3190 101 3291

200607 2902 17 2919 821 6 827 3723 23 3746

200708 3108 16 3124 880 5 885 3988 21 4009

200809 3911 212 4123 1163 16 1179 5074 228 5302

200910 4576 2024 6600 1402 148 1550 5978 2172 8150

201011

(rst six

months)

2287 672 2959 752 90 842 3039 762 3801

Source: ICSE

1. Number of applications refers to the number of persons (including family members) who made a valid application claiming protection

within Australia.

2. Program year refers to the period from 1 July to 30 June (following year).


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0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

Number

Dependants

Principal applicants

200506 200607 200708 200809 200910 201011

(first six moths)Program year2

Figure 2: Principal applicants and dependants breakdown in non-IMA caseload

Figure 3: Principal applicants and dependants breakdown in IMA caseload

Source: ICSE

Source: ICSE


0

1000

2000

3000

4000

5000

6000

7000

Number

Dependants

Principal applicants

200506 200607 200708 200809 200910 201011

(first six months)Program year2


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6 Asylum statistics

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

Number

IMA

non-IMA

China

(PRC

)Fiji

Iran

Zimbabw

e

Pakistan

SriL

anka

India

Malay

sia Iraq

Egypt

Indonesia

Leba

non

Afghanistan

Nepal

Banglad

esh

Burma

Turkey

Vietna

m

SouthKo

rea

PapuaN

ewGuinea

Citizenship

Figure 4: Number of applications1 lodged by countries of citizenship in the rst six months of the 2010-11

program year2

Source: ICSE


within Australia.



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Table 2: Number of applications1 lodged (non-IMA) by top 20 countries of citizenship in the rst six months of

the 201011 program year2

Citizenship 200506 200607 200708 200809 200910 201011

(frst six months)

China (PRC) 959 1040 1249 1183 1288 576

Pakistan 133 93 180 222 342 237

India 301 378 196 353 301 227

Egypt 57 49 53 113 206 204

Fiji 34 78 44 116 559 179

Iran 45 74 115 204 376 176

Malaysia 170 102 219 207 254 124

Iraq 107 197 186 232 221 122

Lebanon 40 88 84 102 157 106

Indonesia 208 182 219 210 175 95

Nepal 52 43 35 42 93 94

Zimbabwe 31 63 140 317 371 80

Sri Lanka 209 460 397 478 327 72

Turkey 32 28 39 49 76 66

Vietnam 27 30 45 34 43 65

Afghanistan 11 20 20 71 114 48

Bangladesh 68 56 82 116 87 47

Papua New

Guinea

14 21 32 24 41 37

South Korea 79 81 90 143 71 34

Burma 34 40 71 95 78 30

Other 579 600 492 763 798 420

Total 3190 3723 3988 5074 5978 3039

Source: ICSE

Table 3: Number of applications1 lodged (IMA) by top ve countries of citizenship in the rst six months of the

201011 program year2

Citizenship 200506 200607 200708 200809 200910 201011

(frst six months)

Afghanistan 6 12 0 184 1447 380

Sri Lanka 3 2 0 15 325 162

Stateless 0 0 0 5 175 89

Iraq 0 4 16 13 141 72

Iran 21 3 1 5 72 34

Other 71 2 4 6 12 25

Total 101 23 21 228 2172 762

Source: ICSE


within Australia.



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8 Asylum statistics


within Australia.


0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

3500

4000

Number

Female

Male

200506 200607 200708 200809 200910 201011


Figure 5: Number of applications1 lodged (non-IMA) by sex

Source: ICSE

Table 4: Number of applications1 lodged (non-IMA) by sex

Sex 200506 200607 200708 200809 200910 201011 (rst six months)

Number %

Including dependants

Female 1082 1340 1517 1851 2285 1147 38%

Male 2108 2383 2471 3223 3693 1892 62%

Total 3190 3723 3988 5074 5978 3039 100%

Dependants

Female 358 518 515 668 782 432 57%

Male 184 303 365 495 620 320 43%

Total 542 821 880 1163 1402 752 100%

Source: ICSE


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9Asylum statistics

0

500

1000

1500

2000

Number

Female

Male

200506 200607 200708 200809 200910 201011


Figure 6: Number of applications1 lodged (IMA) by sex

Source: ICSE

Table 5: Number of applications1 lodged (IMA) by sex

Sex 200506 200607 200708 200809 200910 201011 (rst six months)

Number %

Including dependants

Female 13 4 3 7 145 79 10%

Male 88 19 18 221 2027 683 90%

Total 101 23 21 228 2172 762 100%

Dependants

Female 7 3 2 5 82 48 53%

Male 7 3 3 11 66 42 47%

Total 14 6 5 16 148 90 100%

Source: ICSE


within Australia.



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10 Asylum statistics

0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400

Age

group

(years)

60+ years

5160 years

4150 years

3140 years

1830 years

017 years

Number

Figure 7: Number of applications1 lodged (non-IMA) by age group in the rst six months of the 2010-11

program year2

Source: ICSE

Table 6: Number of applications1 lodged (non-IMA) by age group (age at lodgement)

Age group (years) 200506 200607 200708 200809 200910 201011

(frst six months)

017 years 298 443 473 622 762 410

1830 years 1018 1133 1213 1900 2505 1332

3140 years 1018 1051 1150 1265 1388 655

4150 years 633 733 754 804 840 400

5160 years 139 221 236 265 297 144

60+ years 84 142 162 218 186 98

Total 3190 3723 3988 5074 5978 3039

Source: ICSE


within Australia.



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Number

0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

200506 200607 200708 200809 200910 201011


017 years

1830 years

3140 years

4150 years

5160 years

60+ years

Figure 8: Number of applications1 lodged (non-IMA) by age group

Source: ICSE


within Australia.



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Primary processing3 of applications

Figure 9: Number of primary decisions4 (non-IMA)

0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

3500

Number

Primarygrantrate(%)

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

200506 200607 200708

Program year2

200809 200910 201011

(first six months)

Grants

Refusals

Primary grant rate

Source: ICSE


3. Primary processing begins at the time of lodgement of a valid application and ends with the primary decision.

4. Primary decision refers to the decision made at the end of initial processing by the department.

5. Primary grant rates measure the rate of positive decisions (visa grants) at the initial processing stage in the Protection visa process as a

proportion of total decisions made in a given period.

Table 7: Number of primary decisions4 and primary grant rates5 (non-IMA) and number of grants (IMA)

Decision 200506 200607 200708 200809 200910 201011

(frst six months)

non-IMA

Grants 565 896 1295 1598 1710 571

Refusals 2829 2717 2413 2983 3042 1963

Total primary non-IMA

decisions

3394 3613 3708 4581 4752 2534

Primary grant rate5 16.6% 24.8% 34.9% 34.9% 36.0% 22.5%

IMA

Grants 101 15 30 209 2148 771

Total grants 666 911 1325 1807 3858 1342

Source: ICSE


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0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

3500

4000

4500

Number

200506 200607 200708

Program year2

200809 200910 201011

(first six months)

IMA Grants

non-IMA Grants

All grants

0

50

100

150

200

250

300

350

400

450

Number

IMA

non-IMA

Afghanist

an

SriL

anka Ira

qIra

n

China

(PRC

)

Zimba

bwe

Pakis

tan

Statele

ss

Egypt

Burm

a

Turkey

SaudiA

rabia

Eritre

a

Banglad

esh

Nigeria

Nepal

Papu

aNe

wGuine

aFiji

Rwanda

Ethio

pia

Citizenship

Figure 10: Number of primary grants

Figure 11: Number of primary grants by top 20 countries of citizenship in the rst six months of the 2010-11

program year2

Source: ICSE

Source: ICSE



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Table 8: Number of primary grants and primary grant rates by top 20 countries of citizenship in the rst six

months of the 2010-11 program year2 (non-IMA)

Citizenship 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11

(frst six months)

Grants Primarygrant

rate

Grants Primarygrant

rate

Grants Primarygrant

rate

Grants Primarygrant

rate

Grants Primarygrant

rate

Grants Primarygrant

rate

Zimbabwe 24 72.7% 17 43.6% 63 51.6% 191 75.8% 225 74.3% 95 59.0%

China (PRC) 40 4.2% 131 11.9% 186 16.7% 175 14.6% 229 19.9% 76 12.8%

Pakistan 33 28.0% 38 44.7% 99 63.5% 138 65.7% 183 71.8% 57 48.7%

Sri Lanka 184 55.3% 275 73.7% 389 88.0% 335 80.3% 165 67.9% 55 53.4%

Iran 32 60.4% 37 56.1% 72 75.8% 132 83.5% 200 88.1% 50 49.0%

Iraq 92 90.2% 147 93.0% 200 96.6% 153 87.9% 174 91.1% 30 66.7%

Egypt 10 11.5% 16 38.1% 26 57.8% 38 41.8% 62 45.9% 29 28.2%

Afghanistan 7 70.0% 11 100.0% 17 89.5% 47 92.2% 75 86.2% 25 62.5%

Burma 17 35.4% 23 65.7% 50 87.7% 70 76.1% 60 80.0% 17 54.8%

Turkey .. 10.5% .. 16.0% 14 38.9% 14 37.8% 23 51.1% 14 34.1%

Fiji 0 0.0% 21 35.0% 5 12.2% 10 9.6% 14 3.3% 13 6.2%

Papua NewGuinea

.. 18.2% 6 37.5% 15 46.9% 18 72.0% 16 69.6% 12 70.6%

Bangladesh .. 6.1% 12 21.8% 14 18.2% 38 35.2% 21 30.4% 10 26.3%

Nepal 7 11.7% .. 9.8% .. 7.1% 12 41.4% 16 24.6% 9 15.0%

Ethiopia 16 69.6% 8 32.0% 15 48.4% 26 63.4% 11 57.9% 8 50.0%

Nigeria .. 6.1% 5 21.7% 0 0.0% 5 15.2% 17 56.7% 8 44.4%

Stateless 15 68.2% .. 50.0% .. 50.0% 12 60.0% 15 75.0% 7 50.0%

Rwanda na na na na 0 0.0% .. 30.0% 0 0.0% 6 85.7%

Saudi Arabia na na 0 0.0% .. 100.0% na na .. 100.0% 6 85.7%

Eritrea 6 75.0% 9 100.0% 17 94.4% .. 80.0% 8 88.9% 5 100.0%

Other 68 .. 129 .. 103 .. 177 .. 195 .. 39 ..

Total 565 16.6% 896 24.8% 1295 34.9% 1598 34.9% 1710 36.0% 571 22.5%

Source: ICSE


.. Not published


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15Asylum statistics

Female grants

9%

Male refusals

51%

Female refusals

27%

Male grants

13%

Figure 12: Primary decisions4 in the rst six months of the 2010-11 program year2 by sex (non-IMA)

Source: ICSE





Table 9: Number of primary decisions4 and primary grant rates5 by sex (non-IMA)

Sex and decision 200506 200607 200708 200809 200910 201011

(frst six months)

Primary decision

Female grants 245 347 536 622 699 232

Female refusals 933 961 847 1059 1156 680

Male grants 320 549 759 976 1011 339

Male refusals 1896 1756 1566 1924 1886 1283

Total 3394 3613 3708 4581 4752 2534

Primary grant rates5

Female grant rate 20.8% 26.5% 38.8% 37.0% 37.7% 25.4%

Male grant rate 14.4% 23.8% 32.6% 33.7% 34.9% 20.9%

Source: ICSE


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Table 10: Number of primary decisions4 by sex (IMA)

Sex and decision 200506 200607 200708 200809 200910 201011

(frst six months)

Primary decision

Female grants 11 2 5 7 139 77

Female refusals 1 1 0 0 0 3

Male grants 90 13 25 202 2009 694

Male refusals 8 3 0 12 0 4

Total 110 19 30 221 2148 778

Source: ICSE



0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000

Sex/Roletype

Number

201011

200910200809

200708

200607

200506

Male

principal

applicants

Female

principal

applicants

Maledependants

Female

dependants

Figure 13: Number of primary decisions4 in the rst six months of the 2010-11 program year2 by role type

and sex (non-IMA)

Source: ICSE


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Source: ICSE





Table 11: Number of primary decisions4 by role type and sex (non-IMA)

Role type

and sex

200506 200607 200708 200809 200910 201011

(frst six months)

Principal

applicants

2745 2881 2872 3579 3666 1980

Male 1994 2044 1963 2487 2417 1367

Female 751 837 909 1092 1249 613

Dependants 649 732 836 1002 1086 554

Male 222 261 362 413 480 255

Female 427 471 474 589 606 299

Total 3394 3613 3708 4581 4752 2534

Source: ICSE

Primarygrant

rate(%)

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

200506 200607 200708 200809 200910 201011


017 years

1830 years

3140 years

4150 years

5160 years

60+ years

Figure 14: Primary grant rates5 by age group (non-IMA)


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Table 12: Number of primary grants and primary grant rates5 by age group (non-IMA)

Age group (years) 200506 200607 200708 200809 200910 201011

(frst six months)

Primary grants

017 years 120 162 251 213 296 103

1830 years 203 292 433 659 726 235

3140 years 106 175 265 314 324 123

4150 years 62 132 156 156 172 56

5160 years 37 62 88 127 89 22

60+ years 37 73 102 129 103 32

Total 565 896 1,295 1,598 1,710 571

Primary grants rates5

017 years 33.9% 44.3% 54.0% 42.8% 51.6% 34.1%

1830 years 19.1% 26.8% 39.7% 40.9% 38.4% 21.1%

3140 years 10.1% 16.2% 25.1% 25.6% 29.6% 20.8%

4150 years 9.3% 17.6% 21.4% 19.8% 22.5% 16.5%

5160 years 23.6% 31.5% 41.7% 47.7% 36.0% 18.3%

60+ years 38.1% 56.2% 65.0% 67.5% 56.3% 47.1%

Total 16.6% 24.8% 34.9% 34.9%0 36.0% 22.5%

Source: ICSE




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Reviews by Refugee Review Tribunal6 (RRT)

Figure 15: Number of cases lodged with RRT

Source: RRT

0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

3500

Number

200506 200607 200708 200809

Program year2

200910 201011

(first sixt months)

Table 13: Number of cases lodged with RRT

RRT cases 200506 200607 200708 200809 200910 201011

(frst six months)

Cases lodged 3021 2835 2284 2538 2271 1482

Country of citizenship

China (PRC) 1030 1078 890 1000 751 416

Fiji 35 48 38 60 243 170

Malaysia 140 86 126 165 201 122

India 304 364 215 287 138 113

Indonesia 153 171 164 115 115 77

Egypt 46 28 18 39 52 61

Lebanon 40 56 51 80 84 59

Zimbabwe 14 16 31 40 52 48

Pakistan 88 57 67 57 53 44

Nepal 70 58 48 25 28 39

Other 1101 873 636 670 554 333

Source: RRT


6. It is the RRTs practice to count multiple applications for review as a single case where the legislation provides that the applications for

review can be handled together, usually where members of a family unit have applied for the grant of visas at the same time.


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0

100

200

300

400

500

Number

China

(PRC)

Fiji

Malaysia

India

Indonesia

Egypt

Lebanon

Zimbabw

e

Pakistan

Nepal

Other

Citizenship

0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

3500

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

Num

ber

Remitrates(%)

200506 200607 200708

Program year2

200809 200910 201011

(first six months)

Outcomes

Remit Rate

Figure 16: Number of cases lodged by country of citizenship in the rst six months of the 201011

program year2

Figure 17: Number of RRT outcomes and remit rates7

Source: RRT


7. Remit rates measure the rate of remit decisions as a proportion of total of remit and afrm decisions made in a given period.

Source: RRT


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0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

Num

ber

Affirms

Remits

200506 200607 200708 200809 200910 201011


Figure 18: Number of primary decisions afrmed or remitted by RRT6

Source: RRT


6. It is the RRTs practice to count multiple applications for review as a single case where the legislation provides that the applications for

review can be handled together, usually where members of a family unit have applied for the grant of visas at the same time.

7. Remit rates measure the rate of remit decisions as a proportion of total of remit and afrm decisions made in a given period.

Table 14: Number of RRT outcomes and remit rate7

RRT outcomes 200506 200607 200708 200809 200910 201011

(frst six

months)

Afrms 2069 2202 1661 1787 1540 948

Remits 982 649 422 468 514 317

Withdrawals 70 52 33 29 21 29

No jurisdiction to review 166 199 202 178 82 67

Total 3287 3102 2318 2462 2157 1361

Remit rate7 32.2% 22.8% 20.3% 20.8% 25.0% 23.0%

Source: RRT


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2. Program year refers to the period from 1 July to 30 June the following year.

8. Final grant rates measure the rate of positive decisions (visa grants) at the nal processing stage in the Protection visa process as a


Final decisions

Figure 19: Number of nal decisions and nal grant rates8 (non-IMA)

0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

Number

Finalgrantrate(%)

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

200506 200607 200708

Program year2

200809 200910 201011

(first six months)

Grants

RefusalsFinal grant rate (non-IMA)

Source: ICSE

Table 15: Number of nal decisions and nal grant rates8 (non-IMA)

Final decision 200506 200607 200708 200809 200910 201011

(frst six

months)

non-IMA

Grants 1120 1691 1900 2173 2367 909

Refusals 2479 2652 2106 2624 2266 1413

Total nal non-IMA

decisions

3599 4343 4006 4797 4633 2322

Final grant rate8 31.1% 38.9% 47.4% 45.3% 51.1% 39.1%

IMA

Grants 127 16 32 209 2148 773

All grants 1247 1707 1932 2382 4515 1682

Source: ICSE


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0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

3500

4000

4500

5000

Number

All grants

200506 200607 200708

Program year2

200909 200910 201011

(first six months)

non-IMA grants

IMA grants

Figure 20: Number of nal grants

0

200

400

600

800

Number

Grants

Refusals

China

(PRC

)

Zimbabw

eInd

ia

Pakistan

SriLankaFij

i

Malay

sia Iran

Iraq

Indonesia

Egypt

Leba

non

South

Kore

a

Banglad

esh

Afghanistan

Philip

pines

Burma

Turke

yNe

pal

PapuaN

ewGuinea

Citizenship

Figure 21: Number of nal decisions by top 20 countries of citizenship in the rst six months of

the 2010-11 program year2 (non-IMA)

Source: ICSE

Source: ICSE



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Table 16: Number of nal grants and nal grant rates by top 20 countries of citizenship in the rst six

months of the 201011 program year2 (non-IMA)

Citizenship 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11

(frst six months)

Grants Finalgrant

rate

Grants Finalgrant

rate

Grants Finalgrant

rate

Grants Finalgrant

rate

Grants Finalgrant

rate

Grants Finalgrant

rate

China (PRC) 188 18.9% 416 31.3% 415 37.8% 426 31.5% 492 42.1% 183 30.6%

Zimbabwe 40 93.0% 27 93.1% 87 79.8% 215 90.3% 255 85.3% 129 80.6%

Pakistan 44 38.3% 53 49.5% 115 73.2% 158 76.7% 212 83.8% 72 79.1%

Iran 45 88.2% 58 80.6% 96 92.3% 142 88.8% 211 97.7% 66 91.7%

Sri Lanka 244 66.8% 361 81.9% 433 90.8% 359 90.0% 190 76.0% 66 84.6%

Fiji 5 8.2% 23 27.7% 7 11.3% 27 29.3% 38 16.0% 58 17.5%

Egypt 47 58.0% 50 71.4% 37 62.7% 45 56.3% 79 71.2% 43 75.4%

Iraq 103 98.1% 154 100.0% 204 96.7% 157 95.7% 182 95.3% 32 91.4%

Afghanistan 13 86.7% 20 90.9% 24 96.0% 48 94.1% 75 94.9% 29 74.4%

Burma 34 77.3% 43 86.0% 56 91.8% 78 94.0% 78 96.3% 26 83.9%

Turkey 10 22.2% 12 40.0% 26 61.9% 25 64.1% 31 72.1% 22 73.3%

Nepal 32 52.5% 18 26.9% 24 48.0% 26 53.1% 22 55.0% 19 37.3%

Lebanon 25 35.7% 22 29.3% 27 38.0% 35 36.8% 33 33.7% 16 31.4%

India 8 3.7% 37 8.9% 27 7.9% 23 6.3% 34 12.9% 13 9.4%

Bangladesh 25 20.0% 39 28.7% 40 33.9% 49 32.9% 37 42.5% 12 54.5%

Papua NewGuinea

6 42.9% 16 88.9% 21 61.8% 22 75.9% 16 72.7% 12 80.0%

Ethiopia 23 85.2% 18 78.3% 21 72.4% 32 88.9% 25 86.2% 11 84.6%

Nigeria 9 36.0% 17 54.8% 5 22.7% 11 45.8% 27 67.5% 10 71.4%

Stateless 20 80.0% .. 66.7% 5 62.5% 14 82.4% 20 87.0% 10 71.4%

Indonesia 22 12.2% 22 8.1% 14 7.5% 17 8.2% 32 16.8% 7 9.5%

Other 199 .. 303 .. 230 .. 281 .. 310 .. 73 ..

Total 1120 31.1% 1691 38.9% 1900 47.4% 2173 45.3% 2367 51.1% 909 39.1%

Source: ICSE

Table 17: Number of nal grants by top ve countries of citizenship in the rst six months of the 201011

program year2 (IMA)

Citizenship 200506 200607 200708 200809 200910 201011(frst six months)

Afghanistan 17 5 7 176 1439 382

Sri Lanka 0 3 1 5 315 167

Stateless 0 0 0 5 172 89

Iraq 2 2 16 15 139 73

Iran 42 3 2 4 71 34

Other 66 3 6 4 12 28

Total 127 16 32 209 2148 773

Source: ICSE


.. Not published


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Female grants

16%

Male refusals40%

Female refusals

21%

Male grants

23%

Figure 22: Final decisions by sex (non-IMA)

Source: ICSE

Table 18: Number of nal decisions and nal grant rates8 by sex (non-IMA)

Sex and

decision

2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11

(frst six months)

Final decision

Female grants 457 668 782 868 964 379

Female refusals 810 822 693 881 839 482

Male grants 663 1023 1118 1305 1403 530

Male refusals 1669 1830 1413 1743 1427 931

Total 3599 4343 4006 4797 4633 2322

Final grant rates8

Female grant

rate

36.1% 44.8% 53.0% 49.6% 53.5% 44.0%

Male grant rate 28.4% 35.9% 44.2% 42.8% 49.6% 36.3%

Source: ICSE




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0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000

Sex/Roletype

Number

201011

200910

200809

200708

200607

200506

Male

principal

applicants

Female

principal

applicants

Male

dependants

Female

dependants

Figure 23: Number of nal determinations by role type and sex (non-IMA)

Source: ICSE

Table 19: Number of nal decisions by sex (IMA)

Sex and

decision

2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11

(frst six months)

Final decision

Female grants 15 2 5 7 139 77

Female refusals 2 2 0 0 0 0

Male grants 112 14 27 202 2009 696

Male refusals 7 3 0 2 10 0

Total 136 21 32 211 2158 773

Source: ICSE


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Table 20: Number of nal determinations by role type and sex (non-IMA)

Role type

and sex

200506 200607 200708 200809 200910 201011

(frst six months)

Principal

applicants

2842 3468 3078 3798 3541 1856

Male 2058 2528 2155 2642 2347 1262

Female 784 940 923 1156 1194 594

Dependants 757 875 928 999 1092 466

Male 274 325 376 406 483 199

Female 483 550 552 593 609 267

Total 3599 4343 4006 4797 4633 2322

Source: ICSE

Source: ICSE

0

20

40

60

80

100

Finalgrant

rates(%)

200506 200607 200708 200809 200910 201011


017 years

1830 years

3140 years

4150 years

5160 years

60+ years

Figure 24: Final grant rates8 by age group (non-IMA)





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Table 21: Final grants and nal grant rates8 by age (non-IMA)

Age group (years)

at nal decision200506 200607 200708 200809 200910 201011

(frst six months)

Final grants

0-17 years 202 246 334 263 390 160

18-30 years 362 524 578 832 952 350

31-40 years 257 389 443 471 492 196

41-50 years 166 311 294 291 289 117

51-60 years 69 107 126 170 115 43

60+ years 64 114 125 146 129 43

Total 1120 1691 1900 2173 2367 909

Final grant rates8

0-17 years 50.2% 58.0% 67.2% 59.9% 69.0% 62.0%

18-30 years 35.6% 44.7% 50.5% 53.3% 54.7% 36.8%

31-40 years 23.1% 28.6% 38.3% 34.8% 43.9% 35.7%

41-50 years 21.9% 31.5% 36.5% 31.3% 37.3% 31.1%

51-60 years 34.8% 42.8% 53.8% 52.6% 47.1% 39.1%

60+ years 57.7% 76.0% 74.0% 76.4% 68.3% 54.4%

Source: ICSE


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0

200

400

600

800

1000

N

umber

Oct08

Nov08

Dec08

Jan09

Feb09

Mar09

Apr09

May09

Jun09

Jul09

Aug09

Sep09

Oct09

Nov09

Dec09

Jan10

Feb10

Mar10

Apr10

May10

Jun10

Jul10

Aug10

Sep10

Oct10

Nov10

Dec10

Month

Figure 25: Number of RSD requests by month9

9. Monthly RSD requests counted by persons screened into the RSD process. These gures have been adjusted to rectify

data anomalies.

Table 22: Number of RSD requests

Citizenship 200809 200910 201011

(frst six months)

Afghanistan 507

Iran 9 198 809

Stateless 25 457 655

Iraq 59 252 405

Sri Lanka 77 920 251

Burma 0 52 36

Pakistan 3 16 28

Kuwait 1 10 19

Vietnam 0

Palestinian Authority 0 12 10

Other 5 18 25

Total 686 4597 3368

Source: DIAC systems



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0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

Number

200809

200910

201011 first six months

Afghanistan Iran Stateless Iraq Sri Lanka

Citizenship

Figure 26: Number of RSD requests by top ve countries of citizenship



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0

50

100

150

200

250

300

350

Number

Oct08

Nov08

Dec08

Jan09

Feb09

Mar09

Apr09

May09

Jun09

Jul09

Aug09

Sep09

Oct09

Nov09

Dec09

Jan10

Feb10

Mar10

Apr10

May10

Jun10

Jul10

Aug10

Sep10

Oct10

Nov10

Dec10

Month

Primary processing

Figure 27: Number of Primary RSD Protection visa grants10


Table 23: Number of primary RSD Protection visa grants10

Citizenship 200809 200910 201011 (frst six months)

Afghanistan 166 1423

Sri Lanka 4 313 158

Stateless 5 167 58

Iraq 13 126 32

Iran 1 50 21


Burma 0 0 7

Pakistan 0 6 1

Kuwait 0 4 1

Other 0 1 0

Total 189 2091 476


10. RSD Protection visa grant gures may vary s lightly from gures for grants to IMAs provided in the tables in part 1 since the data has

been extracted from DIAC systems on a different date employing different methodologies.


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Table 24: Primary RSD Protection visa grant rates

Citizenship 200910 201011 (frst six months)

Afghanistan

Sri Lanka 76.9% 51.5%

Stateless 67.1% 21.2%

Iraq 59.2% 25.0%

Iran 52.6% 10.3%

Total 73.9% 27.2%


0

300

600

900

1200

1500

Number

200809

200910


Afghanistan Sri Lanka Stateless Iraq Iran

Citizenship

Figure 28: Number of primary RSD Protection visa grants by top ve countries of citizenship



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10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80

Top

5

citizenships

Primary RSD PV grant rate (%)

200910

201011

first six months

Iran

Iraq

Stateless

Sri Lanka

Afghanistan

Figure 29: Primary RSD Protection visa grant rates by top ve countries of citizenship



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35Asylum statistics

Independent Merit Review outcomes11

Table 25: Number of RSD outcomes overturned at review


Afghanistan

Iran 13 27

Stateless 10 43

Iraq 13 40

Sri Lanka 15 8

Other 4 4

Total 55 425


Table 26: Number of RSD outcomes afrmed at review


Afghanistan

Iraq 8 17

Stateless 0 16

Iran 2 10

Sri Lanka 33 10

Other 4 12

Total 49 116


11. Independent Merits Review (IMR) gures refer to the dates IMR outcomes were accepted by DIAC rather than the dates of the

recommendations, and therefore may differ from gures previously published.


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Table 27: Review overturn rate


Afghanistan

Iran 86.7% 73.0%

Stateless 100.0% 72.9%

Iraq 61.9% 70.2%

Sri Lanka 31.3% 44.4%

Other 50.0% 50.0%

Total 52.9% 78.6%



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0

50

100

150

200

250

300

350

Number

Month

Oct08

Nov08

Dec08

Jan09

Feb09

Mar09

Apr09

May09

Jun09

Jul09

Aug09

Sep09

Oct09

Nov09

Dec09

Jan10

Feb10

Mar10

Apr10

May10

Jun10

Jul10

Aug10

Sep10

Oct10

Nov10

Dec10

Final decisions

Figure 30: Number of nal RSD Protection visa grants10


Table 28: Number of nal RSD Protection visa grants10

Citizenship 200809 200910 201011 (frst six months)

Afghanistan 166 1425

Sri Lanka 4 315 161

Stateless 5 170 89

Iraq 13 134 72

Iran 1 64 34


Burma 0 0 7

Pakistan 0 6 5

Syria 0 0 2

Kuwait 0 4 1

Yemen 0 0 1

Somalia 0 1 0

Total 189 2120 762


10. RSD Protection visa grant gures may vary s lightly from gures for grants to IMAs provided in the tables in part 1 since the data has

been extracted from DIAC systems on a different date employing different methodologies.


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0

300

600

900

1200

1500

Number

200809

200910


Afghanistan Sri Lanka Stateless Iraq Iran

Citizenship

Figure 31: Number of nal RSD Protection visa grants by top ve countries of citizenship


10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

Top5

citizenships

Final RSD PV grant rate (%)200910


Iran

Iraq

Stateless

Sri Lanka

Afghanistan

Figure 32: Final RSD Protection visa grant rates



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Glossary

AffirmTo ratify the decision under reviewthe original decision remains unchanged and in force.

Asylum seekerAn asylum seeker is a person who has left their country of origin, has applied for recognition as a refugee in another country

and is awaiting a decision on their application.

CitizenshipCitizenship is based on passport/travel documents at the time of application for protection. If the applicant has no travel

documents, citizenship determination is based on information supplied in the application. A formal process is then

undertaken to verify information supplied.

DIACThe Department of Immigration and Citizenship.

Final grant rate

Final grant rate measures the rate of positive decisions (visa grants) at the nal processing stage in the Protection visaprocess as a proportion of total decisions made in a given period. Final grant rate is calculated by dividing the number of nal

grants by the combined number of nal grants and refusals

Humanitarian ProgramAustralias Humanitarian Program provides protection to refugees and resettlement to those for whom it may be the

appropriate durable solution. In line with Australias international obligations, the onshore component of the program provides

protection to refugees in Australia whose claims have been found to meet the criteria of the 1951 Convention Relating to the

Status of Refugees and its 1967 protocol.

ICSEDIACs strategic, generic client system used to maintain information regarding client requests for citizenship and onshore

visa grants.

Initial ProcessingInitial processing begins at time of lodgement and ends with the primary decision.

Primary decisionPrimary decision refers to the decision made at the end of initial processing by the department.

Primary grant ratePrimary grant rate measures the rate of positive decisions (visa grants) at the initial processing stage in the Protection visa

process as a proportion of total decisions made in a given period. Primary grant rate is calculated by dividing the number of

primary grants by the combined number of primary grants and refusals.

Program YearFor reporting purposes, a program year begins from 1 July and runs to 30 June of the following year.

RemitTo send the matter back for reconsideration. A Tribunal may remit a decision to DIAC when it decides that a visa applicant

has satised the criteria which the primary decision maker found were not satised, or that the visa applicant is a refugee.

Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT)The Refugee Review Tribunal (the Tribunal) is a statutory body which provides a nal, independant, merits review of decisions

made by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC).

Refugee status determination (RSD)Refugee status determination (RSD) in this publication refers to the process through which the claims of irregular maritime

arrivals are assessed. Prior to 1 March 2011 this process consisted of a Refugee Status Assessment and Independant

Merits Review.

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