
Anonymous Threats and Protection Visas: How Do You Prove Risk When You Do Not Know Who Threatened You?
PROTECTION VISA • SUBCLASS 866 • ANONYMOUS THREATS • RISK Anonymous Threats and Protection Visas: How Do You Prove Risk When You Do Not Know Who Threatened You? Threats may arrive through anonymous calls, messages, social media accounts or intermediaries. Not knowing the sender’s identity does not automatically make a threat irrelevant, but the evidence must still be assessed in context. Relevant considerations can include the content and timing of threats, information only a particular person or group might know, repeated patterns, surrounding incidents, screenshots or metadata, witness evidence and reliable country information. The legal framework A Subclass 866 Protection
