Government cancels hundreds of visas for convicted criminals

More than 800 criminals were stripped of Australian visas in 2018, with just over 12 per cent involved in child sex offences or child exploitation. Their visas were revoked under laws that require non-citizens sentenced to 12 months or more to lose their visas.

The Government has sent more than 800 non-citizens home after cancelling their visas Source: SBS News

The majority of the group - about 500 people - had been sentenced for violent crimes.  The group included 100 people involved in child sex offences or child exploitation, 53 found guilty of domestic violence, 34 of sexual offences and 13 were murderers.  

Visas were also stripped from 125 people sentenced for assault and 56 for armed robbery.

The Federal Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs, David Coleman, says the deportations send a strong message, that criminal behaviour won't be tolerated.

 

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