Migration Point-in-Time Service Updates

The Migration Point-in-Time Service has been updated to include the Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (2025 Measures No. 2) Act 2025 (Cth) (Act No 70 of 2025) and the Strengthening Oversight of the National Intelligence Community Act 2025 (Cth) (Act No 75 of 2025).

Act 70 of 2025

This Act amends the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) and the Australian Citizenship Act 2007 (Cth) to:

• clarify and modernise provisions of those Acts that enable the Department of Home Affairs (the Department), including the Australian Border Force, to collect facial images from persons under the legislation that align and are consistent with international standards and current biometric technologies; and
• validate facial images that were provided by a person or collected by the Department prior to the commencement of the amendments, including any action taken by the Department in relation to those images.

Act 75 of 2025

This Act amends the Intelligence Services Act 2001 (Cth) and the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986 (Cth) to ensure holistic and robust oversight of all ten National Intelligence Community agencies.

The Act expands the jurisdictions of the Office of the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security and the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security to include four additional agencies: the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, the Australian Federal Police, the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre and the Department of Home Affairs.

The Act also makes consequential amendments to various Acts including the Crimes Act 1914 (Cth) and the Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth). 

These amendments have been updated in the Point-in-Time Migration Service current to 16 January 2026. (NB: Subscription required).

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