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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Ben Doherty and Adeshola Ore

Lebanese citizens with Australian partners being denied visitor visas amid concerns over unofficial ‘blacklists’

Fatima al Moussawi with her husband Yasser al Moussawi and daughter Maram
Fatima Zhour with her husband, Yasser al Moussawi, and daughter, Maram, before the war in Lebanon separated them. Photograph: Supplied by family

Every night Maram cries for her father. “‘Dad, Dad, Dad’, all the time she is screaming,” the two-year-old’s mother, Fatima Zhour, says. “She misses her father, and she can’t understand why she cannot see him.”

Maram hasn’t seen her father, Yasser al Moussawi, in six months, since she and her mother, who is an Australian citizen, left Lebanon for Sydney.

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