'Definite shift' in Border Force approach to overseas travel ban as approvals surge | niltiac
The Australian Border Force is approving travel requests at a much higher rate now than earlier in the pandemic and making decisions within hours that previously took weeks.
Brooke Carman received permission to travel to Germany to be with her partner Kevin Jaeger the same day she applied. "We're seeing a lot more approvals come through with the criteria being a lot lower bar than it was before … such as relationships where they've only spent two weeks physically together," Mr Byrnes said.
Liberal MP Dave Sharma criticised the policy as a "pretty extraordinary restriction on people's liberty" in an interview withtwo weeks ago and was among Coalition MPs who spoke about it in the party room in Canberra last week.The ABF approved 22,640 individuals to leave the country out of 91,950 requests overall, between March 25 to July 31. A request can cover more than one person.
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