Where the IAA declines to consider new information from a referred applicant under s 473DD of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth), it commits jurisdictional error if it reaches a final conclusion on the truth of the applicant's claims at the s 473DD gateway stage rather than assessing whether the information is 'credible' in the sense of 'capable of being believed' under s 473DD(b)(ii), before determining whether exceptional circumstances exist under s 473DD(a).
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