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191: No appeal or review rights in relation to invitations to apply
or “You can't challenge decisions about invitations to apply for visas”
You could also call this:

“You can't challenge or appeal decisions about transit visas”

You cannot appeal or challenge decisions about transit visas. This means if the Minister or an immigration officer makes a choice about a transit visa, you cannot take that decision to a court, the Tribunal, the Minister, or anyone else to try and change it.

Also, if someone decides not to give you a transit visa or takes away your transit visa, you cannot ask a court to look at that decision again. The law does not allow you to do this.

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Part 7 Appeals, reviews, and other proceedings
No appeal or review rights in relation to invitations to apply and transit visas

192No appeal or review rights in relation to transit visas

  1. No appeal lies against a decision of the Minister or an immigration officer on any matter in relation to a transit visa, whether to a court, the Tribunal, the Minister, or otherwise.

  2. No review proceedings may be brought in any court in respect of any decision to refuse to grant or to cancel a transit visa.