Department of Home Affairs and ABF weekend outages reminder

Friday, December 7, 2018

Please be advised that Home Affairs and ABF web sites will subject to outages as follows:

1st Outage

Date/Time – From 19:00 on Saturday 8 December to 09:00 on Sunday 9 December 2018
Reason - Technical maintenance/upgrades
Impact – Users may receive a "Server 503" HTTP error on the following websites for periods of up to 5 minutes at a time during the outage window
Web sitesHome Affairs, Minister for Home Affairs, Australian Border Force, Immigration and citizenship

2nd Outage

Date/Time – From 14:00 on Saturday 15 December to 09:00 on Sunday 16 December 2018
Reason – Technical maintenance/upgrades and patching
Impact – Access to the following web sites will not be available during the outage
Web sites Home Affairs, Minister for Home Affairs, Australian Border Force, Immigration and citizenship

While there will be disruptions for the web sites listed during these times, access to the Integrated Cargo System (ICS) should remain available via https://www.ccf.customs.gov.au/

Home Affairs and the ABF apologise for any inconvenience caused.


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