When the Department of Home Affairs refuses or cancels a visa, the applicant can often ask an independent tribunal to review that decision. VisaClarity reads those decisions from the official record. We hold 5,146 visa decisions across 25 visa types, and these pages show what the tribunal actually did with them.
The tribunal reviewing migration decisions was the Administrative Appeals Tribunal until 14 October 2024, when it was replaced by the Administrative Review Tribunal. Decisions from both are included here. Everything below is general information drawn from published decisions, not migration advice, and every case turns on its own facts.
How to read these decisions
The Administrative Review Tribunal (ART) reviews decisions made by the Department of Home Affairs. Until 14 October 2024 it was called the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT). When someone is refused a visa or has one cancelled, they can often ask the tribunal to look at the decision again.
- Upheld / Affirmed
- The tribunal agreed with the original decision. The refusal or cancellation stands (the applicant lost).
- Set aside
- The tribunal disagreed with the original decision and replaced it (the applicant won).
- Remitted
- The case was sent back to Home Affairs to decide again, with directions (a fresh chance for the applicant).
- Overturned
- The original decision was reversed. On these pages we group overturned decisions under "Set aside" above.
Citations follow a simple pattern: [2026] ARTA 315 means decision number 315 of the tribunal in 2026. Older decisions use AAT in place of ARTA.
The record at a glance
Across every visa type, the original decision was set aside 8% of the time and sent back for reconsideration a further 30% of the time. The rest confirmed the decision under review or ended another way. Pick a visa below to see its own numbers.
Counts from 5,146 decisions captured by our pipeline, as at 2026-06-28.
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