This morning I had a phone call from our son Martin who is working in Melbourne.
Well; he was working, but his employer, Coles has suspended him without pay whilst the Australian Immigration Department investigates him as a possible illegal immigrant. There are an estimated 80,000 illegal immigrants in Australia...mostly people who have over-staid their visitor visas.
Martin is being investigated because when he applied for this job, he had to present a birth certificate. Martin’s birth certificate states that he was born in 1971 in Wewak, Papua New Guinea. At the end of 1971 we, Kevin, Joan, Helen and Martin went on leave to Australia. So that we would be allowed to return to PNG we each had to have a re-entry permit. When it came to Martin’s permit we had to declare him to be an Australian......no documents, just a statement that he is an Australian. He has been in Australia since 1975.
The way governments work, this could take months to solve.
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Oh poor Martin, hopefully it won't take too long to sort through. I have been filling out forms for 2 months trying to replace my lost passport and it wasn't even lost, I know where it is, it's in the landfill but try explaing it to government clerks and it is a total disaster. Good Luck Martin.
Maybe this is something your local member of federal parliament could help with?
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