A Tamil family, who have seen their appeal to lift a bar on their youngest daughter applying for an Australia visa knocked back, has said they will appeal the court decision as the parents continue efforts to remain in the country after the parents arrived as illegal maritime immigrants in 2012 and 2013 and had two children. Priya and Nades Murugappan and Australian-born daughters Kopika and Tharnicaa, five and three, have been living together in housing on Christmas Island since August 2019 after an urgent injunction put a hold on their deportation as they sought a visa for Tharnicaa. On Tuesday morning, the full bench of the Federal Court knocked back a cross-appeal brought by the family on a second ground for relief and rejected an appeal by the federal government over an earlier ruling by Justice Mark Mochinsky, which found youngest-born Tharnicaa was denied procedural fairness in making a protection visa …
Tamil Family Considering High Court Appeal as Federal Court Upholds Ruling on Daughter’s Visa
February 15, 2021
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