hi fran,
thank you so much..i showed your reply to my wife and she's very happy..we're appealing now to the immigration minister for "humanitarian consideration and compassion" for my wife..we were surprised when some family friends and imagine, my own patients started to launch "australian-wide petition signatures"..we've got support from MPs and Senators, Church groups and multicultural groups, and the community, from diff states of Australia..but the irony of it, breast cancer advocate and support groups don't want to get involve!
My family, especially my wife is not asking much from the Australian government. We just want a little recognition of my family’s contribution (thru me and my wife’s work as a child carer, and active participation in the church and community) to the rural & remote areas of WA, and humanitarian consideration and compassion to my terminally ill wife (41 y/o). It’s not my wife’s fault to have this advanced breast cancer! Nobody wants to have cancer! But this was the reason the DIAC is using to reject our permanent residency visa, after our almost 6 years here in WA.
Another thing, I realized now that what we are requesting to the Honourable Immigration Minister will be beneficial not only to my family but also to other Migrant individuals and their families, in general. Just this morning, when I requested one of my patient for her signature, she was a bit teary because according to her,her brother went back to India after almost 2 years of working under temporary visa but failed the permanent visa application. My patient said that there were questions on her brother's medical condition. She did not elaborate anymore the situation. But that patient of mine was very happy, knowing that we are doing the petition for a "noble cause', and praying and hoping that whatever happens, this will become "precedent" for the future, for the good and betterment of the multicultural migrant families, which the Honourable Immigration Minister Chris Bowen termed as "Australian Multiculturalism"
