The Federal Court has quashed the refusal of an Afghan immigration applicant because the officer’s analysis was “largely copied verbatim” from the first refusal by another colleague against the same man.
In sending the case back to the Immigration Department for a new assessment, Judge Darren R. Thorne ruled that it was procedurally unfair for the officer to refuse the humanitarian and compassionate resettlement application of Atiqullah Lali, who lives without status in Turkey and faces deportation to Afghanistan.
