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Lebanese migrant at centre of visa fail granted last-minute extension

The federal government has granted a last-minute visa extension to a Sydney man who was being forced to leave the country because of a failure by his immigration agent. 

Mohamed Barghachoun, who is deaf, paid more than $1,500 to migration agent Paul Jeffery Smith to help lodge his partner visa.

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