10-year-old Indian boy denied an Australian visa for the third time

A 10-year-old Indian boy was denied an Australian visitor visa for the third time as the Interior Ministry estimates that he did not "d & # 39; employment or financial incentives "to return home.

Harmanpreet Singh was applied so that the boy could meet his father and stepmother in Melbourne during his summer school holidays, reported Tuesday the Australian media.

"It's been three years since I saw my son, and the Australian authorities refused the request for the same reason," his father Harinder Singh told SBS Punjabi.

The wife of Harinder Singh died in a road accident in India in 2012. Later, he remarried and moved to Australia. His son also came to Australia with him but returned to India the same year to continue his education.

Harinder Singh and his wife currently have a restriction on overseas travel.

Harmanpreet Singh, who currently lives with h. He is a grandmother in India, first applied for a visitor visa in 2017. But the visa was refused because the Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection was not convinced that he intended to stay temporarily in Australia. visa on May 3 of this year;

Following this, the boy's father wrote to the Australian Minister of Home Affairs, Peter Dutton. He was advised to provide "as much information as possible" to demonstrate an incentive for his son to return to India with his next application.

"I added the documents of my property in India, a letter from my son's school and my mother's tutelage certificate issued by an Indian court, but all that was not enough and the visa officer again cited a lack of employment "His latest expedited visa application was denied on May 28." We did not know that the government and the system could be so tough they would divide a family like this, "he said.

Harinder Singh, who works as a welder in Melbourne, said that his son's extended separation caused "a lot of stress" in the family.

"If it's because of our visa status, do not people have the right to see their children?" Our eldest son has been here at least 6 to 7 times and he has returned to India every time. "

has now launched an online petition for the Australian Minister of the Interior to review the decision.

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