Surprise Visa Grant!
This is the moment Vanessa tells the Behrendorff family the great news that their Ministerial Intervention application has been approved.
Tetraplegic man’s family fight deportation threat of sister-in-law carer
From dawn until dusk, seven days a week, James Behrendorff requires constant care — the result of a 2011 workplace accident that left the electrician with C5 tetraplegia. “It means basically from the neck down I’m numb,” Mr Behrendorff said. “I’m lucky I have some movement in my hands, but I can’t feel half of …
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Father being forced to return to India and leave family in Australia pleads Immigration Department for permanent residency
FOUR-YEAR-OLD Angadvir Grewal is too young to realise what is happening to his family. His parents, Harpreet Grewal and Rupinder Kaur Dhindsa, have tried in vain to explain to their little boy that his father is being forced to leave the country and return to India – a move that could result in the youngster …
Cost for Australia’s offshore immigration detention near $5 billion
Australia’s offshore immigration detention program has cost the federal government at least $5 billion since 2012, new figures have confirmed.
Deportation reprieve brings hope to sick girl’s family
In what immigration lawyer Mark Glazbrook said was one of his most callous cases in 20 years, Manu George and his wife Seena were to be deported because of the burden of Mary’s disabilities, even though she is cared for by Seena and the family has private health insurance.
Blackmail, extortion and slavery at a restaurant near you
Pawanjeet Heir’s eyes well up as she retells the story of how she unwittingly became a victim of visa fraud, extortion and indentured servitude. She is now facing her worst nightmare: deportation, along with her husband and young son, who have given up hope after the system failed them.
Yvan’s surprise visa grant
Yvan Boyokino has had some visa issues to say the least. After having his previous visa application refused for a mistake he didn’t make, he came to Migration Solutions for help applying for Ministerial Intervention. This application was again denied twice, when on the third attempt the Ministerial Intervention was successfully approved. This is the …
Peter Dutton says Malcolm Fraser’s immigration policy to blame for crime gangs
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has blamed Malcolm Fraser’s 1970s immigration policy for some of the problems Australia is now experiencing with Middle Eastern crime gangs and Islamic radicalisation.
The new underclass: the ripped-off foreign workers from Melbourne’s west
Reza Saramad has been in Australia barely six years and has been underpaid or not paid at all on three separate occasions – a total of nearly $20,000.
Richardson: The shrinking state
There is a hidden warning in the recent electoral boundaries review, writes Tom Richardson – one that both Government and Opposition need to heed.
New skilled migration review presents golden opportunity for SA
A major announcement by the Immigration Department of a review into Australia’s skilled migration program has quietly slipped under the radar, despite being set to “result in the most far reaching transformation…in the last 20 years” according to an official overview. The review will encompass all skilled migration and series 400 visas, including both temporary …
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Skilled migration programme review opens door to new visa models
The Department of Immigration and Border Protection are inviting submissions from key stakeholders towards series 400 visa subclasses after announcing further reviews of Australia’s skilled migration programme. The invitation follows the release of the eagerly-anticipated 457 programme review’s ‘Robust New Foundations’ report, which was unveiled last week. The Department have indicated four broad frames of …
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Ministerial Intervention Case Study
The Problem In 2008 Migration Solutions was engaged by a client who wished to lodge a Remaining Relative Visa in order to bring his son to Australia and secure the necessary medical care he required for his condition of epilepsy, the treatment for which was not available to him in his native country of the Phillipines. Despite the client …
Visa threat to college students in Australia
About 20 students from an Australian international college will meet immigration officials on Tuesday to stop the government from cancelling their visas.
