A young Kiwi who had his Australian visa cancelled after suspicions he was an associate of the Comancheros will now be allowed to stay in Australia.
Amieki Junior Unu is 24 and has been living in Australia on and off since 2019.
Unu was set to be sent back to Aotearoa under section 501 of the Australian Migration Act, but he successfully appealed the decision at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal of Australia.
The Tribunal overturned the cancellation of Unu’s visa after it was decided he met the character test.
“The Tribunal hopes that Mr Unu’s interactions with the criminal justice system and the migration system, most recently through the cancellation of his Visa and a subsequent period of immigration detention, coupled with his desire to remain in this country to live and raise a family with his fiancée, and to also continue to provide for his family in New Zealand, will all act as protective factors to ensure that Mr Unu makes the most of the opportunity now provided to him to remain in the Australian community.”
Unu grew up in a council flat in Auckland. He went to a boarding school where he was exposed to alcohol on the weekends and began drinking.
He went on to gain a diploma in engineering before moving to Australia.
He told the Tribunal he did not apply for jobs in his field of expertise and said he had returned to school to ‘make my mum happy’.
In March 2021, Unu was involved in what a sentencing magistrate described as a “quite serious episode” of drunken street violence.
(stuff.co.nz)
