Asylum seekers face lifetime ban from entering Australia if they arrive by boat | Australia news | The Guardian
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The Turnbull government plans to introduce legislation to ban asylum seekers who arrive by boat from ever being allowed into Australia.
The ban will apply to any adult who has been sent to detention centres on #Nauru or #Manus_Island since 19 July 2013.
It means adults who have previously tried to enter Australia by boat since July 2013, but who have chosen to return home, will never be allowed to get a visa to Australia – even as a tourist, or a spouse.
The government plans to backdate its ban to 19 July 2013, because that is when the former prime minister Kevin Rudd said: “As of today, asylum seekers who come here by boat without a visa will never be settled in Australia.”
The ban will not apply to children.