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8,000 foreign students have been re-admitted back to Australia after a national gaffe in which immigration administrators canceled their visas because of breached rules. The Federal Magistrates Court of Australia sent notices to students between May 2001 and August 2005 for breaking their visa requirements, which include attending a certain amount of classes and maintaining a certain pass level. "Our systems records have been amended for all these 8,000 people saying they don't have exclusion periods, so they can reapply if they would like to and it would be assessed on its individual merits," an Immigration Department spokesman says. "Basically it's just taking the black mark away from their name." The gaffe is seen as another blunder committed by the Australian government, which has been under heavy criticism for such international embarrassments. |
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