As part of continuing improvements to PAX, the Australian Sanctions Office will be introducing a new application form for a sanctions permit. Due to technical limitations, information in applications that were submitted on the existing form cannot be carried across to the new form format. This means that the transition will affect users who have started a draft permit application on the old form, but have not submitted it before the new form is implemented.

When is this change happening

Starting in May 2025 permit applications that have had no user activity for 30 days or more will be automatically closed. This will affect roughly 180 permit applications in PAX that have had no user activity for more than 30 days, some of which were created more than four years ago.

For all remaining applications (i.e. those showing user activity within the last 30 days) the Australian Sanctions Office will work with users to manage the impact of the transition.

What you need to do

If you have an draft permit application that you have not accessed in the last 30 days but you still intend to submit, you should either finalise and submit it, or at least save an update to the form, by the end of April 2025 so that user activity is visible and we know that your application will need to be managed dur-ing the transition.

Further questions on the transition can be sent to sanctions@dfat.gov.au.