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They’ve been here 8 years on working visas, neither is a permanent resident.
Unfortunately Australia does not grant citizenship by birth unless at least one of the parents is a permanent resident.
Not sure what their plans were, but it sure is a shitty situation if they were anywhere close to being granted permanent visas.
To me this just demonstrates how fucked our working visa system is.
I would argue its the system doing exactly what its meant to do.
The whole point of migration and visas is that you get to choose who you allow in, get to pick the skills and abilities your country needs, in exchange for the ability to work there and/or apply for citizenship.
Immigration is meant to be selective, meant to be picky, and meant to fill gaps your country has. Is it harsh, and more than a little cold - absolutely. But that is what Immigration is.
The whole point of migration and visas is that you get to choose who you allow in
That's fascist.
Thats fact
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The abled ones too, just not to the same degree.
Imagine though. That family lived in Australia for eight years straight, their kid was born in Australia, and they have to leave because their kid who was born in Australia has a disability. Crazy!
Luca, his parents were told, could be a financial burden on the country.
Oh hell that is evil. How can you even kick a child's parents out of a country? He will be even more of a burden if the state has to take care of him.
They want the two year old to leave the country and move somewhere he's never been because he's disabled.
Hey, you know who else wanted to remove disabled people from his country using violence? Hitler.
It’s so weird, like I was born in Australia and moved away at the age of 4 and somehow have citienship? I wasn’t born disabled but am now. The system is so weird.
Excluding disabled people from society is fascist. Australia is literally a fascist dictatorship. Death to the king!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
And after years of fighting for it, they are hoping for change in the coming weeks, with an official review of the health requirements under way.Laura Currie and Dante Vendittelli had moved from Scotland for jobs that Australia desperately needs.
She and her husband Qasim fought to stay in Australia in a case that drew global attention.Their son Shaffan was born in 2014 with a rare genetic condition and a damaged spinal cord.
Instead, he found jobs in cafes, in supermarkets and taxi apps to make ends meet.“They should realise that's a very difficult situation - you shouldn't put people in the limelight,” Ms Butt says.
It’s a snag that has hit Claire Day’s plans for her and her family to follow her brother, who moved to Australia a few years ago.Her younger daughter Darcy, who is nearly 10, has Down Syndrome.
Their social media feeds are full of promotional videos fronted by former British police officers, showing them living the Australian dream, patrolling the beach in sand buggies and relaxing in the surf.
Social worker Shizleen Aishath says she was “gobsmacked” to find out about the health requirement - and she discovered it the hard way.A former UN employee, she came to Australia for a further degree with every intention of returning to the Maldives.
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Countries don't allow anyone in. They get to pick and choose who they want. That's literally how immigration works.
If they let anyone in and gave then free healthcare then everyone could just go there and get free healthcare. That's doesn't make and sense, that's completely unsustainable.
They are on a working visa. They aren't on some 1950's move here and become a citizen visa.
We're not talking about letting anyone in.
These two were working towards becoming citizens. They were already here.
I meant permanently.
They must be on temporary visas. A temporary visa is not a visa to citizenship.
They would have been on a 457 visa which means they were indeed temporary, but they had skills in demand. It is a pathway to citizenship.
Point is, we're not just letting people show up for medical treatment.
It's a potential pathway not a guarantee.
I didn't say it was a guarantee. I'm rebutting your assertion that they're here for free healthcare.
Well I didn't say that so I'm not sure what you are on about.
If they let anyone in and gave then free healthcare then everyone could just go there and get free healthcare.
Yea if. If Australia did that.
But they aren't are they?
This people don't sound like they are are going to get medical care but they are being caught out by a completely logical Australian immigration restriction.
How is having a larger workforce that can support more free healthcare not sustainable? Do you think migrants don't work or anything?
If anyone could go there for free healthcare then a lot of people without free healthcare would go there.
If free healthcare care is so easy why doesn't ever country do it?
Greed