Aussie visa complaint

Aussie visa complaint

My Indonesian wife was pregnant last year. Living in a remote
town in the Northern Territory away from any family either
immediate or extended, I became a bit stressed because with the
first child my wife suffered very bad morning sickness and was
hospitalized at one stage.

Early last year I arranged a visa for her younger single
sister to come for a couple of months to help out during the
morning sickness. She got the visa no problem.

When my wife was due to have a baby a few months later, I put
together the material needed for her eldest sister to gain an
Australian visa. I provided the same paperwork and I was not too
concerned because she was in a better financial position and
would be leaving behind children and a house.

Unfortunately during that time the bomb blast occurred.
Months have passed. Needless to say she never came to Australia.
She received a letter from the Australian Embassy mid November
2004 when she went to pick up her passport. It stated her
application was rejected.

Why was it rejected? She was in a stronger financial position
than her younger sister, she has a family and a house she was
leaving behind in Indonesia and I provided the same paperwork as
for the previously approved visa.

I know under normal circumstances it would have been approved,
but with the extra workload that the Australian Embassy had, it
was probably easier to get through the backlog if you just reject
visa applications. Who cares right, you are not there to provide
any service and my sister-in-law after all doesn't mind paying a
few hundred thousand rupiah for nothing.

I encourage others who have had a bad experience with the
Australian Embassy to write in. I think the Australian Embassy
needs a bit of a push to bring them out of their reality into
ours.

DOMENIC BOS, Nhulunbuy, NT, Australia