Complaints about interpreters used by Immigration Department

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Florencia Melgar

Dear Migration Review Tribunal,

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am making this request under the Freedom of Information Act 1982. Please detail the number of complaints the Migration Review Tribunal received between 1 January 2012 and 30 November 2014 relating to inaccurate interpretation of asylum seekers' interviews during Immigration Department assessments? Please could you also detail the languages involved?

Yours faithfully,

Florencia Melgar

Library Mailbox, Migration Review Tribunal

Dear Ms Melgar,

 

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You request meets all of these requirements except the last one. You have
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I understand that the email to which I am now writing will generate a
posting on the Right to Know website rather than an email directly to
yourself. It would be helpful to clarify this last point in order to make
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Please find below a link to our website below on ‘How to make an FOI
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the near future,

 

Yours Sincerely,

 

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-----Original Message-----

From: Florencia Melgar
[mailto:[FOI #812 email]]

Sent: Monday, 1 December 2014 12:24 PM

To: NSW Registry Mailbox

Subject: Freedom of Information request - Complaints about interpreters
used by Immigration Department

 

Dear Migration Review Tribunal,

 

Dear Sir/Madam,

 

I am making this request under the Freedom of Information Act 1982. Please
detail the number of complaints the Migration Review Tribunal received
between 1 January 2012 and 30 November 2014 relating to inaccurate
interpretation of asylum seekers' interviews during Immigration Department
assessments? Please could you also detail the languages involved?

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Florencia Melgar

 

 

 

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Ben Fairless left an annotation ()

Just a heads up, we add this to every single request sent via Right to Know, and you are free to re-state it if you wish:

"This request is being made by an individual using the Right to Know website. The unique email address provided by the service for this request satisfies s.15(2)(c) of the Freedom of Information Act."

I also made a complaint about the Department of Immigration and Border Protection using s.15(2)(c) to stifle requests. You can refer the Agency to the OAIC Decision if you want: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6FvM3R...