'HE CANCELLED MY VISA WITH NO WARNING': HOW SOME AUSTRALIANS USE PARTNER VISAS TO CONTROL AND THREATEN MIGRANTS

Georgia Hurley* was on the brink of becoming a permanent resident when her abusive ex-partner cancelled her partner visa. She told The Feed it’s been an exhausting and traumatising process trying to prove the abuse actually occurred.

On average a woman in Australia dies every nine days at the hands of their current or former partner. Source: AAP

It was love that made Hurley pack up her life in Germany and move to Australia to apply for a partner visa. But once she’d settled in the country, she said the cracks started to appear and her now-ex-partner became financially and emotionally abusive.

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