{"id":34925,"date":"2021-08-08T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T20:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/aug\/08\/afghan-refugee-may-lose-permanent-residency-in-australia-for-supplying-identity-document"},"modified":"2021-08-08T05:00:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T20:00:02","slug":"afghan-refugee-may-lose-permanent-residency-in-australia-for-supplying-identity-document","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34925","title":{"rendered":"Afghan refugee may lose permanent residency in Australia \u2013 for supplying identity document"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Hazara man faces potential deportation after home affairs told him a document it asked him to obtain for his citizenship application could not be verified<\/p>\n<p>A permanent resident of Australia \u2013 an Afghan refugee who has lived in Brisbane for a decade \u2013 has been threatened with having his visa cancelled, and possible deportation, over an identity document the Australian government asked him to produce.<\/p>\n<p> Nemat (not his real name) had been asked to provide a taskira \u2013 Afghanistan\u2019s primary identity document \u2013 as part of his citizenship application, his lawyer, Atika Hussain, said. But he was then told his visa would be cancelled because the document, provided by the Afghan embassy in Canberra, could not be verified and was therefore suspected<strong> <\/strong>of being counterfeit.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/aug\/08\/afghan-refugee-may-lose-permanent-residency-in-australia-for-supplying-identity-document\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Hazara man faces potential deportation after home affairs told him a document it asked him to obtain for his citizenship application could not be verifiedA permanent resident of Australia \u2013 an Afghan refugee who has lived in Brisbane for a d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,43,388,769,491,494,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-australia-news","category-australian-immigration-and-asylum","category-law-australia","category-migration","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34926,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34925\/revisions\/34926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}