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Farid Farid

'Living in limbo': calls grow to speed up asylum claims

Asylum-seeker Thamilselvan Selvakumar has been living in Australia on a temporary visa for 12 years. (Supplied/AAP PHOTOS)

A fairer and faster process to determine asylum claims, including better legal aid, is at the heart of fresh calls to help thousands of refugees "living in limbo".

A report that examined the success of asylum reforms in Switzerland in 2019 has made sweeping recommendations to fix the system in Australia, where claims are at a six-year high and wait times stretch to more than a decade.

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