greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 1
st, 2019 at 9:17am:
greggerypeccary wrote on Nov 5
th, 2018 at 7:21pm:
Frank wrote on Nov 5
th, 2018 at 5:42pm:
Brian Ross wrote on Nov 5
th, 2018 at 5:32pm:
Overstaying by a few weeks or months is not a big deal in the scheme of things. As a matter of fact, you are 'OK' to overstay by 28 days, no isssue.
From your own post:
"... as many as 12,000 have been here for more than 20 years." Is 20 years okay, Frank?
I'm curious.
I once met an illegal who'd been in Australia for over 20 years. She was from Mother England. She was forced to sleep with a Greek businessman who'd set her up in a flat as his mistress. She couldn't have a driver's license, open a bank account or do anything that required ID. She had none. She sometimes got cash work dying fabric.
She was in NA. Her sponsor told her she'd never progress if she didn't hand herself in and own up. She was in a toxic relationship and had the threat of being exposed constantly hanging over her head.
I last heard she was going to renew her British passport and make a run for it. Immigration officers would, of course, look for the visa in her passport, but she had a story and was going to give it a go.
I didn't hear what happened, but if she did this, she would definitely have been detained for investigation, pending deportation and a lifetime ban on entering Australia.
A big call, but imagine a future where you require a sugar daddy who can report you to authorities if you ever decide to leave the relationship (which she did).
Just another British refugee who understandably wants to get as far away from Mother as they can.
My father did the same, but in his day, they just sent you to immigration to register.
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