Form 424c · Character or identity
Request for Amendment or Annotation to Personal Records
What this official form is for and who lodges it. The form itself is only ever the Department's own document; nothing is completed or submitted here.
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Purpose
This form is used to ask the Department of Home Affairs to correct or annotate personal records it holds when the person believes those records are incomplete, incorrect, out of date, or misleading. Requests are handled under the Privacy Act 1988 or, in some cases, the Freedom of Information Act 1982, and the form also allows a person to have a note recording their own view attached to a record.
Who lodges it
The individual whose personal records are held by the Department (or a person authorised to act on their behalf).
When it is used
Used when a person wants existing personal information already held by the Department amended or annotated, as distinct from notifying changes of circumstances or incorrect answers in a pending application, which are handled through separate notification forms.
Official form
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