Down Under Visa was contacted by a
woman who found herself in a very difficult situation. She was
basically a victim of poor advice and poverty. When you are poor,
family pressure and desperation can make you do things that you
shouldn't do. This young woman made the mistake of visiting
Australia intending to overstay her visa and work, so she could help
her family.
When immigration
caught on to her, she was banned for 3 years and had to return to the
Philippines. Then, unbelievably, (or believably) her family told her
to try again by getting a fake name and fake passport - and do the
whole overstay thing again! Well guess what? The scheme worked! She
made it back to Australia and overstayed her visa a second time!
This second time around she began a
steady relationship with an Australian citizen and became pregnant.
This was a real wake-up call when she realized that she could be
discovered and sent back again. She would then be in danger of losing
her new love and her baby.
Someone referred her to Down Under Visa
after another migration agent had advised her to leave Australia and
to apply offshore. It is a good thing that she didn't take that
advice because if she had, the poor mom-to-be would have had almost
zero chance of returning once she left the country.
Our solution was to prepare her
application and wait until the baby was born. We knew that when a
baby is born in Australia fathered by an Aussie dad, the child is
automatically a citizen. When her baby came, the visa application was
presented onshore in Australia. Down Under Visa was pretty
sure that immigration would not deport a mother and separate her from
her baby and its Australian father.
It was a long hard fight, but now this
young lady has a permanent visa (Subclass 801) that lets her stay for
as long as she wants. This was a great victory for our both our
client and for Down Under Visa.
Getting fiancée visas, spouse visas,
and de facto partner visa applications through is fairly easy for us,
after all these years. This one we had to work especially hard for,
but a challenge is something that we don’t shy away from and just
makes us work even harder.
For those of you who would say she
didn't deserve it because she was an “illegal alien,” remember,
we are practitioners of Australian Migration Law, and we believe that
all people are entitled to a strong legal defense so that they
receive justice.
We never give up on a client. Now this
client is able to enjoy the rest of her life with her little girl and
her partner, secure in the fact that she won’t be deported again.
If we can battle through a long and
difficult case like this one, just imagine what we can do for simpler
visa cases where there are no unlawful immigration issues! If you
need help getting your Filipina lady to Australia, legally, I know
that we can help you!
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