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OK listen up all you loopy lefties, no one is buying your bullshit any more.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/3551885...alia-despite-lying-on-visa-application/#page1
https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/3551885...alia-despite-lying-on-visa-application/#page1
Six Iranian boat people have been given permission to stay in Australia despite being caught taking trips back to the country they left in fear of their lives.
Since receiving their Australian protection visas, some of them returned numerous times to Iran, sparking suspicion from Immigration Minister Peter Dutton on their intentions for living in Australia.
However, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) foiled Mr Dutton’s attempts to deport the Iranians, allowing them to stay here anyway, The Daily Telegraph reports.
Documents obtained by the newspaper reveal in each case, the Iranians, who paid people smugglers to get to Australia, were given protection visas after claiming their lives would be in danger if they returned to Iran.
The visas were cancelled by Mr Dutton, or his delegate, after the Immigration Department discovered they voluntarily returned to Iran and later came back to Australia.
The six people each arrived in Australia between 2009 and 2014.
It's understood one person made three return trips to Iran after getting their Australian visa.
One of the three trips was to get married under Islamic law.
The AAT reinstated the protection visa after ruling that just because the person took trips from Australia to Iran, it didn't mean the person didn’t fear persecution in the country.
Another person claimed to be on an Iranian wanted list but the Immigration Department later discovered the person was in no danger if they returned to Iran.
Mr Dutton’s delegate found the person had not fled Iran on a false identity, was not in any danger in Iran and was an economic migrant rather than a genuine refugee and thus cancelled the protection visa.
A couple who arrived by boat claimed to have no identification documents and they would be killed if they returned.
However it was revealed they actually had valid Iranian passports when they travelled to Iran and back using them.
In both these cases, the AAT found the individual and the couple had lied on their visa applications, but still overturned the decision to kick them out of Australia.
And two Iranian family members claimed to be stateless with no identity documents.
It was soon discovered this wasn't the case when another family member applied to join them in Australia and provided documents to show all were Iranian citizens who were in no danger.
The AAT reinstated their visas after accepting the documents were fake, even though an expert gave evidence to the AAT that the documents were genuine.