General resources

• ABS Migrant data matrices - also check Migrant Settlement Indicators, Experimental
• AMES Australia
• Amnesty International  2013 Report on Manus Island,   May 2014 update,  Feb 2018 update,  Oct 2016 Report on Nauru,  2017 Report Treasure I$land, 2024 letter Fast track failures
• Asylum seekers
  • Hospital circular (Dec 2020)
  • Identification - documents that may be presented as proof of asylum seeker status (Jan 2020) and 'Immicard'
  • Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
  • Asylum Seeker SRSS Changes April 2018 and  RCH SRSS information
• Australian border deaths database (now with ANZSOC, prev Monash University) - last updated Jan 2023
• Cabrini Asylum Seeker and Refugee Health Hub
• Care of children in immigration detention (RCH procedure - intranet only)
• CDC Immigrant and refugee health
• Circumcision - DH Guidelines for male circumcision in the Victorian public hospital system                         
• Community hubs
• Dental referral (RDH) - special needs
  
• Department of Education 
  
  • Continuity of support funding - NDIS alternative for non-residents. Applicants must apply to NDIS, confirm they are not eligible through formal rejection, and then complete support funding applications with the NDIS intake partner.  See application form 0-6y and for age 7y+  Registration and Request form and Consent form and email VINCOS.enquiries@dffh.vic.gov.au
  • English as an additional language (EAL)
  • EAL Handbook (2019)
  • EAL reports
  • English Language Schools
  • Kinder finder
  • School finder (includes specialist education) - also see  Australian schools directory
    
  • Disability inclusion policy and Disability inclusion profile 
    
  • Refugee Status Report and Background information, methodology and data sources (2011)
    
  • Support for refugees
• Department of Health
  
  • Asylum seekers - hospital access, other services, public healthcare Israel-Palestine conflict and displaced Ukrainian cohorts
  • Child health services - guidelines for community health
  • Refugee and asylum seeker health services - guidelines for community health (2019)
  • Refugee and asylum seeker health and wellbeing
  • Refugee health program
• Department of Home Affairs
  • Organisational charts for Department of Home Affairs and Australian Border Force
    
  • Annual reports (current to 2023-24)
  • Community support program and CRISP program
    
  • Fact sheets - health
  • Form 1529 - Consent to collect or disclose a child's personal information
  • Health undertakings
  • Health waiver for Humanitarian entrants
  • Houston report - report on the expert panel on asylum seekers (August 2012)
  • Historical migration statistics
  • Humanitarian program 2024-25 discussion paper
  • Humanitarian program statistics - includes links to Offshore program (to 2023-24), Onshore program (to 2023-24), Onshore Processing (IMA on a BVE to Mar 2025), and UMA legacy caseload (to May 2025). 
  • Humanitarian settlement program
    
  • Immigration detention statistics (to May 2025)
    
  • Minister for Home Affairs media releases, Asst Minister for Citizenship, Customs and Multicultural Affairs media releases, and Asst Minister for Immigration media releases
  • Operation Sovereign Borders
  • DHA Panel Members Instructions (Jul 2024) and DHC supporting material (Aug 2024)
    
  • Settlement report facility (link to request form on website)
  • Temporary visa holders data - pivot tables (not working at Jul 2025, prev excellent)
  • Visa statistics (links to other sites) and FOI documents (Disclosure logs) - use tabs on the left
    
• Department of Social Services
  • Social Security Law - information on visa types and entitlements
• Disability Sports Australia
  
• Female circumcision -  Family Planning Victoria Service Coordination Guide (2014)
• Forced marriage - ' mybluesky' web resource (legal and practical support, including age-appropriate information), National roundtable - Forced marriage resources and Specialist support program
• Foundation House includes referrals, and Schools and Families in Partnership: A Desktop Guide (2018)
• inTouch Multicultural Centre Against Family Violence
• Legal supports
  • Asylum seekers -  legal resources (VRHN),  local contacts (2014 - still useful)
    
  • Refugee Advice and Casework Service (RACS) NSW
  • Refugee Legal (Victoria)
  • Victorian Legal Aid
  • Women's Legal Service Victoria
    
• Migration Policy Institute (Washington)
  
• NSW refugee health service
  
• RACP policy and position statements: Refugee and asylum seeker health (2015)
• Rahma health - Arabic language resources on health, including pregnancy care and early childhood
• Refugee Council of Australia
  
• Refugee Health Program
• Spectrum Victoria
• St Vincent De Paul Society Victoria: Can arrange/facilitate food donation and drop offs in addition to other social services - please call Welfare Assistance Line 1800 305 330 and see website
• UNHCR including  statistics at a glance, and 2013 UNHCR reports on Manus Island and Nauru
• Victorian Auditor-General's Office (VAGO) report:  Access to Services for Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers (May 2014)
• Victorian Refugee Health Network
• Victorian Transcultural Mental Health
  
• Waterwell project 
• West Welcome Wagon - provides donated material goods to asylum seekers in Melbourne's West
• World Health Organization - Refugee and Migrant Health and Global Evidence Review on Health and Migration Series
  
• Worldmapper

Information by country of origin

• ABS QuickStats - enables search on country of birth by area, with comparison between 2011 and 2016 Census
  
• DFAT - Countries, economies and regions
• DHA: Country profiles (this site contains links to many other resources)
• UK Migrant health guide ((UK site; includes health issues by country, and archived version - 2014  Migrant Health Guide)
• IMF Country information
  
• Minnesota Newcomer health profiles (originally CDC)
• OECD - Education at a Glance - 2019
• UN - Human Development Reports 
• WHO profiles country of origin
• WHO Immunization by country of origin
• World Bank including Migration and Remittances (fascinating!)
• World Fact Book (CIA)
• World mapper
  

Bilingual health professionals

• Bilingual health professional directories 
  
  • Clinical psychologists 
  • Counsellors, Psychotherapists and Psychologists (advance search language)
    
  • Psychiatry
  • Social workers (advanced search preferred language)
  • Dietitians (advanced search, not sure this is working)
  • Speech pathologists (advanced search languages other than English)
  • Pharmacists (language spoken option).

Health care worker information

• DH guidelines: Immunisation for health care workers

Immigrant health service reports

• Immigrant health service report 2024
• Immigrant health service report 2023
• Immigrant health service report 2022
• Immigrant health service report 2021
• Immigrant health service report 2020
• Immigrant health service report 2019
• Immigrant health service report 2018
• Immigrant health service report 2017
• Immigrant health service report 2016
• Immigrant health service report 2015
• Immigrant health service report 2014
• Immigrant health service report 2013
• Immigrant health service report 2012 
• Immigrant health service report 2011 
• Immigrant health service report 2010
• Immigrant health service report 2009
• Immigrant health service report 2007