After approximately $70,000, six visas, six migration agents and four different jobs in regional areas, the Sri Lankan national Mohamed Farshan Mohamed Fairoos is no closer to reaching his goal to have the right to settle in Australia permanently.
Since arriving in the country as a student in 2007, Fairoos has spent eight years working in hospitality, from Kangaroo Island to Thursday Island, from the wine belt of Victoria to the southern highlands of New South Wales where he is now based, trying to qualify for permanent residency.