Aged care worker Navi has lived here for 18 years, but next month she and her husband could be deported. 9News
is throwing its support behind a couple who are set to be deported next month after living in the country for 18 years.The couple have a long history in Goolwa, a town of roughly 9000 residents on the mouth of the Murray River. Together, they ran the local Indian restaurant for almost five years.Navi Kaur and Vik Singh have lived in Australia for 18 years. During that time they operated an Indian restaurant in Goolwa, South Australia, before Kaur moved in to aged care.
"Australia is home for us. This is the place where we want to be, where we feel like we are destined to be," Kaur said. The couple's visa woes began in 2014, Kaur said, when a man posing as an immigration lawyer lodged an incomplete application for a permanent skilled visa on their behalf. Migration Solutions CEO Mark Glazbrook is now acting on behalf of the couple. Like many vulnerable migrants, Kaur and her husband were taken advantage of, Glazbrook said.
In order to get a permanent Australian visa, Kaur and her husband would have to leave the country, unless Immigration Minister Andrew Giles chose to intervene, Glazbrook said."Navi is an aged care worker in a regional part of South Australia, where traditionally it's very, very difficult to find aged care workers," Glazbrook said.
Glazbrook said Navi and her husband's case was just as worthy of intervention as other recent cases which had caught the minister's interest.a last-minute reprieve
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