Visa suspension leaves baby Ferouz 'in limbo': lawyer

Lawyers for an asylum-seeker family with an Australian-born baby are in limbo after the federal government suspended permanent protection visa processing.

ferouz and latifar pic.jpg — Baby Ferouz with mother, 'Lartifa' (a pseudonym) (Maurice Blackburn lawyers)

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Published 4 December 2013 6:56pm

Updated 4 December 2013 6:58pm

By Stefan Armbruster

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Last week in the Federal Circuit Court the government agreed not to remove the Rohingya family until the case was properly heard, including a protection visa application.

Lawyers for four-week-old Ferouz and his family sought an injunction to prevent their removal from immigration detention in Brisbane to Nauru.

Murray Watt from Maurice Blackburn lawyers spoke with Stefan Armbruster.

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