Hi, Ketut.
I completely agree with you, and would also see this forum as a place to discuss DIMA, it's actions and, furthermore, immigration legislations. The reason why I joined this forum was my own case, and the costly and tedious prospects this involves-involved. Have read the thread about s374A.... and I also think you are raising some very imortant questions both there and in other threads.
The purpose of a good a discussion is not to agree on everything, and to able to change legislation we need a broad debate (that's at least what I am used to from home). People here easily seem to mistake disagreement with rudeness. I have also been attacked and accused of being rude when I don't agree with people here. In my first posts here I also saw a lot of the 'if you complain there is something wrong with you' atbreastude.
There is a lot of good advice for practical immigration issues in this newsgroup for people that need that in the planning stages. What I miss is the desire and determination from people to actually make a change when something doesn't seem to be right. And we should not accept this just because the regulations do not affect us...
As you pointed out in one of the threads it might not be thought through thoroughly that the temporary supported dependant spouse visa (subclbutt 430) has ceased to exist. This was the visa I applied for and couldn't get because the embbutty received the application on the same day as it was abolished. So when I had to come here on an extended tourist visa it mucked up a lot for us. (there are probably some people here who then will say that I-we didn't HAVE to come; well, one of my wife's closest family members has terminal cancer....) It has been an eye-opener to see what kind of a rigid organisation DIMA is, and how it impacts people. We saw a public debate on SBS on Tuesday about human rights issues and immigration. To us it was truly shocking! Then again I am probably biased because of the Tampa incident....
Our own case becames insignificant in comparison to the trauma some of the refugees have to go through!
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Bottom line is that I think that immigration issues need to be discussed openly. A lot of the strict legislations seem to have strong support among the people, but that shouldn't stop us from trying to make a change. You have my full support in asking the critical questions that need to be asked! (The SBS debate also showed that there are many volunteers here in Australia who work for the case of making immigration more humane here.) Geir
