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Skilled migrant struggle: 'I haven't seen my daughter for over 400 days'


”My daughter is 10 years old. I haven’t seen her for over 400 days. Which is 10 per cent of her life.
”You don’t want to give up because you know your family is going to be let in, but how much longer can you wait and how much does it take out of one to wait this long? We can do a year, but we can’t do another two years.”
Their family sits at the nexus of both the border closure and a near-collapse of our skills-based immigration system.
Not only were Dintchev’s husband and daughter stranded more than 11,000 kilometres away when the borders closed, but their residency application is also stuck in the largest backlog of applications in history with wait times now measured in years rather than months. There are 36,000 skilled migrant applications waiting to be processed. ....

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