About The Immigration Kit

The Immigration Kit: Digital Edition is a new interactive online platform built by the Immigration Advice and Rights Centre (IARC) and Lext to help you navigate Australia’s immigration and citizenship law.

We’ve updated the trusted content of The Immigration Kit 10th Edition textbook and transformed it into a fully digital, searchable and updatable resource – designed for everyday use by legal professionals, decision makers, community workers, public sector staff, students, universities, libraries and anyone who needs reliable immigration law information.

Subscribers can explore the online text or get instant answers using our Q&A tool. All content is written and reviewed by IARC’s immigration law experts, providing clear context and interpretation of legislation and policy across all areas of Australian immigration and citizenship law.

Your practical guide to Australian immigration law - now searchable, updatable and online.

Who is The Immigration Kit: Digital Edition designed for?

The Immigration Kit: Digital Edition is for anyone who needs clear, practical and updatable information about Australian immigration law.

It’s designed to support:

  • Lawyers and migration agents
  • Community, social and frontline workers
  • Public sector staff
  • Educators and university staff
  • Students
  • Visa holders and people navigating migration law issues
  • Anyone supporting visa holders
  • Decision makers and policy professionals

It’s also designed to be a comprehensive online text resource for organisations, including law firms, government departments and agencies, community legal centres, universities, libraries, non-profits and other community organisations.

Why we built this

Immigration and citizenship law is one of the most complex and frequently changing areas of Australian law – yet accurate, plain-language information about it is often difficult to access. IARC and Lext built The Immigration Kit: Digital Edition to change that.

By combining immigration law expertise with carefully designed AI, we’ve created a platform that makes the law more accessible, accurate and usable in real-world practice – whether you’re a legal professional, a community worker or someone navigating the system yourself.

The Immigration Kit was first developed more than 30 years ago to empower vulnerable and diverse communities with trusted legal information. Starting as a binder of information and later becoming a widely used textbook, it has always been driven by IARC’s mission to strengthen access to justice. With The Immigration Kit: Digital Edition, IARC and Lext continue that work – transforming the resource into a modern, searchable and updatable platform that can keep pace with changes to legislation, policy and case law.

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Get in touch

Have a question or want to find out more? Reach us at [email protected].