The Senate has torpedoed tough new regulations which stripped away visas from migrants who provided false or misleading information on their application forms.
A Greens disallowance motion passed the upper house on Tuesday 31-29, with the support of Labor and the Nick Xenophon Team senators, repealing the regulations which also covered mistakes on applications.
Under the regulations, which did not require the passage of legislation to become law, people found providing false or misleading could have been blocked from making a new application for 10 years.
