When Ravneet Garcha read out loud the letter in her inbox, the house fell silent. Her parents had 28 days to leave Australia, the administrative appeals tribunal wrote. “My parents just went quiet,” she says. “It was devastating.”
Garcha, a 20-year-old nurse, has been living with her mother, Sukhdeep Kaur, and father, Jaswinder Singh, in Sunbury, Melbourne since 2015.
