Australian court rules Sri Lankan family visa process unfair
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Australian court rules Sri Lankan family visa process unfair

Australian court rules Sri Lankan family visa process unfair

Australian court rules Sri Lankan family’s visa process ‘unfair’ A Sri Lankan family have received a boost in their fight to remain in Australia after a federal court ruled a decision to prevent them from applying for further bridging visas was procedurally unfair.

 

However, supporters say it is a “hollow victory” and fear the federal government will send the Murugappan family home to be “arrested and possibly tortured” in Sri Lanka later this year. The Federal Circuit Court on Monday quashed Australian Immigration Minister Alex Hawke’s decision in late June to use his discretionary powers to prevent Murugappan family members from reapplying for bridging visas.

 

Three of the four-strong family - parents Priya and Nades along with daughter Kopika - were later granted 12-month bridging visas by Mr Hawke, allowing them to remain in the country. It ensured the family remained in community detention in Perth and were not able to return to their former home of Biloela, Queensland. But Ms Cameron feared after the federal election the Morrison government would again attempt to send the family home to Sri Lanka where she claimed they would be in peril.

 

“It feels like deja vu, just like 2019 when a few short months after the election they tried to remove the family in a terrible way so we still hold fears that might happen again,” Ms Cameron said. “We have shown for nearly four years that we are not going to stop until the family returns to Biloela,” she said.

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