Ua 'ova i le 10 tausaga o aumau ma faigaluega i Ausetalia nei le tina o Sara Mashalian, peita’i ua tapunia le faitoto'a mo sona Visa nofomau ona o se tulafono a le mālō tele i le 2013 e faatatau i tagata e taunuu mai i laufanua o Ausetalia e auala i folauga mai va'a.
O Sara Mashalian na taunuu mai ma lona tinā i se vaa, na sosola mai ona o le sāuaina o tagata o lona talitonuga fa’a-tapua’iga (o ia o se tagata tapua'i Kerisiano) i le atunu’u o Iran. O lona to’alua ma lona tamā, ua talia o ni tagata sulufa’i ma ua mauaina Visa nofomau.
"I am married with the person which is Australian citizen, he is Australian citizen, my father Australian citizen, my brother is Australian citizen, my mother's family, all Australian citizen. How I can leave this country, go to the different country? Already I have a family in Australia. I want to keep my family, I don't want to stress every time, they call me say 'you are not for Australia', 'you can't live in Australia'. Why? Because I come to Australia for a better life? Because I'm Christian?"
O le mafuaaga o le ‘ese’esega i le tulaga o Sara ma isi tagata o lona ‘āiga, ona o se tulafono na fa’atulagaina e le palemia Kevin Rudd ia Iulai o le 2013 e tapunia ai le faitoto'a i soo tagata e taunu’u mai i se va'a ona talia i Ausetalia o se tagata sulufa'i.
"From now on, any asylum seeker who arrives in Australia by boat, will have no chance of being settled in Australia as refugees."
Na saunoa Laura John o se lōia i le Human Rights Law Centre, ua tatau i le minisita ona faauilavea i mata’upu faapitoa e pei o nisi o tagata i le to'a 900 lenei ua fa’aopeopea e le fa’ai’uga a Kevin Rudd i le 2013.
"This is a policy that was implemented over a decade ago. It simply does not reflect the practical reality of Sara's life and the lives of the other people who are caught in this permanent limbo. These are people who work alongside us, whose children go to schools and childcare. These are people who are Australian in every sense of the way other than their visa status. And it's time for the minister to intervene and to grant people in this group permanent visas to accept what is already the case. They are Australian. This is their home, and they deserve to be able to stay here with their families."
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