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While I don’t particularly care for Novak Djokovic, the idea that a government minister can cancel someone’s visa and have them deported from Australia solely b
by troad 5y ago
While I don’t particularly care for Novak Djokovic, the idea that a government minister can cancel someone’s visa and have them deported from Australia solely because that person has expressed views on contentious social issues that the government doesn’t like is fairly alarming.
What about long term residents on permanent residency visas? Or New Zealanders here since childhood under the Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement?
This could have a huge chilling effect on the speech of people living in Australia.
- pstoll 5y agoMaking false statements on an visa application form is grounds for pretty much any obvious consequences that follow.
- troad 5y agoTo my knowledge, that was not the grounds relied upon to cancel his visa though. Had it been, I’d be a lot more comfortable.
- ekianjo 5y ago> on an visa application what false statement? I don't think they ask private medical questions on visa applications.
- grujicd 5y agoThe only false statement in this case was not checking "traveled to other countries in last 14 days". And it was filled in by an agent. Now, we can say that it is a ground for visa cancelation, but I'm sure if you've analyzed all paperwork for all other tennis players now in Australia you'd find similar issues, especially since many of them were also filled by agents. AFAIK questions about medical exemptions or PCR tests were correctly filled according to rules communicated to him. We can speculate whether PCR test was real or fake, but these were not legaly disputed in two legal processes and are thus not "false statements on a visa application". Let's not kid ourselves. In Djokovic's case filling out this single field incorectly was certainly not the reason why he was deported.