Facing visa certainty often can feel like standing on a moving ground. The legal pressure that comes from failed appeal, lapse of lawful status and involvement of children you worked so hard for can be beyond measure.  What is Ministerial Intervention? Ministerial Intervention  is a special discretionary power granted to the Australian Minister for Immigration under Section 351 of the Migration Act 1958. This power allows the Minister to personally grant a visa to an individu