Before the 2022 election, Labor promised to abolish the the TPV and SHEV visas and allow them to apply for a permanent Resolution of Status (RoS) visa.
However, about 7,000 asylum seekers got rejected through the fast track process.
Their only pathway to permanent status in Australia is through ministerial intervention by the home affairs minister, assistant immigration minister, and assistant minister for citizenship and immigration.
The intervention would allow those people to apply for permanent visas.
Figures released to the Guardian show that between July and 24 November, just 24 people have had their cases considered; 19 whose cases were intervened, and five were not.
At this pace, Shoebridge said it would take about a century to process the cohort, calling it a “farce”. “That’s not a process, it’s a cruel hoax,” he said.