Despite being charged with serious offences, a number of visa holders are free to live in the community, including a Bangladeshi man who was found guilty of sexual assault last month.

A Syrian man on a protection visa who is on bail and is suspected of committing several crimes including domestic abuse is on the list; he won't have a hearing until the following year.

A Pakistani national on a student visa is also on bail after being charged with offences including intentionally recording and threatening to distribute an intimate image without consent, as well as attempted stalking and larceny.

And a Sri Lankan man who was recently granted a protection visa is behind bars after allegedly being caught with child abuse material, drugs and ammunition, but has not attempted to seek bail. 

Immigration Minister Andrew Giles has been under increasing pressure to resign since the release late last year of more than 150 detainees including murderers and sex offenders. 

The High Court ruled in November it was unlawful to indefinitely detain foreign nationals if there was no prospect of them being removed from Australia.

Daily Mail Australia has now obtained a list of visa holders who have recently faced New South Wales courts and are not part of that cohort.

The 24-year-old Syrian man on the protection visa faced court in May charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm, two counts of intentionally choking a person with recklessness, three counts of common assault and one of stalk/intimidate.

All those charges are domestic violence-related and the man is also the subject of an interim apprehended violence order. 

Earlier this year the same man was sentenced to an 18-month conditional release order after pleading guilty to driving with an illicit drug in his blood.

He has previous convictions for traffic offences including driving while never having held a licence. 

The 23-year-old Bangladeshi man on the student visa was convicted in May of two counts of sexually touching another person without consent. 

A magistrate in a regional court sentenced the man to 20 months of imprisonment to be served by way of an intensive correction order.

That means he will not spend a day in jail, but must perform 250 hours of community service work.

The 21-year-old Sri Lankan man on the protection visa was pulled over by police in the state's central west late last month and arrested after failing a roadside drug test. 

A search of his car allegedly uncovered an extensive amount of child abuse material as well as cannabis, methylamphetamine and ammunition.

He was charged with possessing and disseminating child abuse material, two counts of possessing a prohibited drug and possessing ammunition without a permit. 

The man, who had been living in Queensland before his arrest, did not apply for bail. 

A spokesman for Home Affairs said the department did not comment on individual cases.  

In the latest debacle to rock the Department of Immigration, Mr Giles has backed down on claims drones were being used to monitor detainees released after the High Court ruling.