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A Melbourne boy who wanted to go to space camp in the US has been denied a visa, after Donald Trump's anti-immigration executive order. Courtesy Channel 7.
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A Melbourne boy who wanted to go to space camp in the US has been denied a visa, after Donald Trump's anti-immigration executive order. Courtesy Channel 7.
He said he was planning to go on "space camp", a dream trip to the US with his school, where he would visit Orlando, Washington, and the US Space and Rocket Center in Alabama.
Melbourne High School student Pouya Ghadirian. Photo: Facebook
Pouya, who is beginning his Year 11 studies at Melbourne High School this week, says he and his dad reacted emotionally to the news.
"I cried at the consulate and I don't normally," he says.
"(My dad) was upset as well because he was saying, 'Look we've had no criminal record and we've done nothing wrong'.
"I have an Australian citizenship. I was born here. It doesn't make sense and it can't be right."
Mr Trump has issued an executive order banning the US from taking in people from seven Muslim-majority countries: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia.