Tamil family to stay on Christmas Island after Federal Court upholds previous ruling over youngest child s immigration status
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Priya and Nades Murugappan, with one of their two daughters, issued a statement in response to the ruling.
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A Tamil family seeking asylum in Australia will remain on Christmas Island for now, after the full Federal Court upheld a previous ruling relating to the immigration status of their youngest child.
Key points:
Tamil-born parents Priya and Nades Murugappan and their Australian-born daughters were living in Biloela
Immigration officials took them into custody in 2018 and they remain in detention on Christmas Island
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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.
Ms Dendle said Tamil family support groups and individual advocates had maintained contact with the family, letting them know how much they cared about and supported them. We have also spent time contacting our local member to let them know that what we would like them to do is grant them special consideration for this family, she said. We have always encouraged all of the family s supporters to have the courage to speak up to their local members and let them know that what is happening to the family is not right. Ms Dendle said Tamil family supporters continued to hope and pray that Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton and Immigration Minister Alex Hawke would have some common sense.
Lawyers ask for Tamil asylum seeker family to return to community while legal battle continues
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Nades and Priya Murugappan with their children Kopika, 5, and Tharunicaa, 3, on Christmas Island in December 2020.
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Lawyers for an asylum seeker family who had called the central Queensland town of Biloela home but remain in detention on Christmas Island have applied for the family of four to be allowed back into the community while a protracted legal battle over their immigration status rolls on.
Key points:
The asylum seeker family, who had been living in Biloela for several years, remain in detention on Christmas Island
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Judgement day is approaching for the youngest and most vulnerable member of the Tamil family trapped in detention on Christmas Island.
At 9.30am Tuesday, February 16, the Full Federal Court hands down a decision involving three-year-old Tharnicaa
Ten months on from when the Tamil’s were first detained on the island, court documents have revealed the family’s fate could have been very different.
The Department of Home affairs recommended in the documents filed and referred to in the Federal Court Decision in April 2020, the Tamil’s should have been granted substantive visas and remained in Australia.