Complaints about interpreters used by Immigration Department
Florencia Melgar made this Freedom of Information request to Migration Review Tribunal
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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
Dear Ms Melgar,
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Information Act 1982, (section 15(2) the request must:
(a) be in writing; and
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Act; and
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to identify it; and
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applicant (for example, by providing an electronic address to which
notices may be sent by electronic communication).
You request meets all of these requirements except the last one. You have
not specified how notices, including documents found, may be sent to you.
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
a valid request.
Please find below a link to our website below on ‘How to make an FOI
Request’. I look forward to receiving a completed request form from you in
the near future,
Yours Sincerely,
MRT-RRT FOI Coordinator
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...