He is embarking on a dangerous journey to Australia and has no idea when he will next be able to hug them.As a Hazara man — part of an ethnic minority in Afghan istan — Mohammad Zaki Rezayi says he had no choice but to flee after his brother was killed by the Taliban.
In late 2012, cooped up on a small boat with more than 60 people, he sets sail from Indonesia to that promised haven.Mohammad is taken to Christmas Island Detention Centre, before being transferred to Curtin Immigration Detention Centre in Western Australia.While it's a reprieve, Mohammad will spend years in limbo, stuck in a cycle of reapplying for temporary asylum visas, each time having to recount the traumatic circumstances that brought him here.
"When I see someone with family, I'm so excited. 'Oh he's got a family, he's got a wife, he's got a kid, he's living with family,'" he says.Things get worse.After two decades, United States-led foreign forces withdraw from the country. In February 2023, the new Albanese Labor government enacts an election promise that's a game changer for Mohammad.
Many are on bridging visas while they appeal their rejected protection claims — refugee advocates argue the assessment process that knocked them back was "arbitrary", and many had strong claims for asylum.
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