{"id":84305,"date":"2018-12-21T15:04:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T22:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=84305"},"modified":"2018-12-21T15:04:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T22:04:51","slug":"tamil-asylum-seeker-family-to-be-deported-to-sri-lanka-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/12\/21\/tamil-asylum-seeker-family-to-be-deported-to-sri-lanka-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil asylum seeker family to be deported to Sri Lanka next year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Federal Court on Friday rejected an appeal from a Tamil family, who had settled in the small Queensland town of Biloela, to stay in Australia.<\/p>\n

A Tamil asylum seeker family who made their home in a small Queensland town will be deported to Sri Lanka, after the Federal Court on Friday rejected their bid to stay in Australia.<\/p>\n

Nadesalingam, Priya and their two daughters made an eleventh-hour appeal to the Federal Court in August after they were taken into detention in March, but their\u00a0appeal was rejected on Friday.<\/p>\n

The judge ordered the deportation of Nadesalingam, Priya and their two daughters, but not before 1 February 2019.<\/p>\n

The parents came to Australia separately by boat in 2012 and 2013 following Sri Lanka’s civil war.<\/p>\n

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They settled in the small Queensland town of Biloela, where they have become ingrained in the local community.<\/p>\n

But they and their Australian-born daughters were removed from their home in March and placed in a Melbourne detention centre, after Priya’s bridging visa expired.<\/p>\n

The family was issued deportation notices in June after the federal government ruled they couldn’t stay.<\/p>\n

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The Federal Court has rejected a Tamil refugee family’s appeal against removal from Australia. The judge ordered Nadesalingam, Priya and their two daughters not be deported before February 1st 2019 @<\/span>SBSNews<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

But their removal from Australia has been on hold while the Federal Court appeal was considered.<\/p>\n

Family friend and Biloela resident Angela Fredericks said the two young girls should be flying to their hometown for Christmas, not being kept in detention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy SBS News The Federal Court on Friday rejected an appeal from a Tamil family, who had settled in the small Queensland town of Biloela, to stay in Australia. A Tamil asylum seeker family who made their home in a small Queensland town will be deported to Sri Lanka, after the Federal Court on Friday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}