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| UpdatedCanberra man Baxter Reid found out the hard way that US visa rules can be a trap for young players, after being detained for more than a week because, his family says, he overstayed his visa by 90 minutes. So how easy is it to run afoul of US Immigration?
Topics: immigration, community-and-society, laws, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedTreasurer Scott Morrison announces changes to skilled migration in the federal budget for 2017.
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| UpdatedA few years after settling in Australia, Sudanese refugee Jamy Alex narrowly avoided imprisonment after committing a terrible crime — but basketball is helping to turn his life around.
Topics: basketball, sport, crime, refugees, immigration, community-and-society, dandenong-3175, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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The European Union's chief Brexit negotiator warns the bloc won't discuss a future relationship with Britain until all 27 member states are reassured that EU citizens living in the UK will be treated "properly and humanely".
Topics: world-politics, immigration, united-kingdom, european-union, italy, belgium
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| UpdatedAn anonymous informant has told Barrie Cassidy that Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has misrepresented the facts around a shooting at the Manus Island detention centre for political advantage, and has alleged that Border Force staff are being asked to "become politically biased".
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| UpdatedOne of Australia's oldest markets, famous for its dim sims and fresh seafood, celebrates 150 years of giving people who immigrated to Australia a chance to start a new life in Melbourne.
Topics: history, community-and-society, family, immigration, human-interest, south-melbourne-3205, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedA 26-year-old Canberra man who was detained in the US for reportedly overstaying his visa by less than two hours is handed a date to face court and "remains in good spirits".
Topics: international-law, immigration, united-states, canberra-2600, australia, act
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government continues to have the power to detain people brought to Australia from offshore detention for medical reasons, after the High Court ruled in its favour.
Topics: courts-and-trials, immigration, canberra-2600, act, australia
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Narendra Modi tells Malcolm Turnbull his country is worried about the Federal Government's decision to scrap the 457 visa after India hinted it could affect trade deal negotiations.
Topics: international-aid-and-trade, immigration, community-and-society, foreign-affairs, world-politics, government-and-politics, india, australia, asia
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Centrelink staff and church officials referred patients to former Australian of the Year finalist Eman Sharobeem who fraudulently claimed to be a psychologist, the ICAC hears.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, corruption, immigration, womens-health, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThe family of a Canberra man detained in the United States says he was handcuffed and detained after a bureaucratic delay at the border saw him overstay his visa by less than two hours.
Topics: international-law, immigration, united-states, canberra-2600, australia, act
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A regional Victorian psychologist who has worked in prisons and a detention centre, says working through her terminal cancer prognosis has been easier with the understanding she has acquired through her work.
Topics: mental-health, cancer, prisons-and-punishment, immigration, sale-3850
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An Australian of the Year finalist and migrant women's rights campaigner rorted hundreds of thousands of dollars of government money, a NSW corruption inquiry hears.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, corruption, womens-health, immigration, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedRefugees learn to shake hands, introduce themselves in English, flush a toilet and cross the street as part of the Australian Government's cultural orientation program.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, community-and-society, immigration, refugees, thailand
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| UpdatedSudanese refugee Laiela Abdalla has just got her driver's licence with help from a migrant program, one of those targeted to benefit from an extra $1 million in state funding.
Topics: community-and-society, immigration, launceston-7250
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New Zealand's Immigration Minister says it is a coincidence that his announcement of tighter access to skilled work visas came in the same week that Australia and the US announced changes to foreign worker visas.
Topics: immigration, farm-labour, work, world-politics, new-zealand, pacific
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The Federal Government is warned by regional aviation operators that scrapping the 457 visa could spell the end for some air services and tear apart communities.
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| UpdatedA new hotline to report "criminal aliens" is launched by the US Department of Homeland Security and is being flooded with calls — although not the ones originally hoped for.
Topics: immigration, world-politics, social-media, government-and-politics, donald-trump, offbeat, united-states
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| UpdatedThe refugee who brought a small boy into the Manus Island detention centre a few weeks ago says he and friends only gave the child some food, and that he is upset by allegations from Peter Dutton that local people suspected him of sexual assault.
Topics: refugees, immigration, law-crime-and-justice, papua-new-guinea
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What motivated the Good Friday disturbance on Manus Island? Barrie Cassidy says the answer matters because it will go to the credibility and reliability of the Minister for Immigration, Peter Dutton.
Topics: government-and-politics, immigration, australia
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A Papua New Guinean politician, whose account of a shooting at the Manus Island detention centre was rejected by Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton, is reinstated as an MP by the PNG Supreme Court.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, refugees, immigration, community-and-society, papua-new-guinea, australia