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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Daisy Dumas

‘What choice have I got?’: Lana built a life in Australia after years on Nauru – but now faces returning to the Iran she fled to keep it

Woman holding child
‘It’s very sad to just leave my son here and go’ … ‘Lana’, an Iranian refugee living in Queensland, says she is being forced to return to Iran to apply for a permanent visa. Composite: Supplied

Lana and Scott* met in torrential rain: she was waiting for a bus, he offered her a lift.

“We just kicked it off,” Scott remembers of the chance meeting on Nauru in 2015. He was working on the island when Australia’s offshore detention centre was being built.

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