The Government wants to change the Migration Act so that refugees and asylum seekers in offshore processing centres would never be allowed to come to Australia.
So even if a person was found to be a genuine refugee and gained citizenship in another country, they could not access any kind of visa — such as a business or tourists visa — to come to Australia in the future.
The legislation — which is not yet public — will include ministerial discretion, so the Immigration Minister could intervene in individual cases.
