Bridging visas to be issued for boat arrivals
“The first group of irregular maritime arrivals (IMAs) will be placed in the community on bridging visas in coming days, as part of the new approach to asylum seeker management… the department was continuing to assess the detention population for suitability for community placement, with initial priority going to those who have spent the greatest time in detention… We would expect to see at least 100 IMAs eventually being released every month”
IMAs? Really? What is a regular maritime arrival? But this sounds like good news… I think.
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sqhaird reblogged this from coffeebrat and added:
Cant imagine it can be as good as it sounds.. opportunity to work, access to healthcare.. but i hope so.
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ourcatastrophe reblogged this from coffeebrat and added:
the devil is in the detail but I will be following this with interest
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