After five years in Australia, Chilean migrant Lisbett Lillo thought she was on the path to permanent residency. But after receiving a breast cancer diagnosis she found out Australia doesn't accept migrants who will incur large medical bills.
A department spokesperson said that any application would fail that test if total medical costs were estimated to exceed $51,000 over that period.
Australian residents with the same diagnosis would be eligible to have those costs covered through Medicare. According to government data from 2021-22, more than half of all surveyed Australian horticultural farms faced difficulty recruiting staff."On balance, she's contributed so much to the community that she should be allowed to stay," Ms Berg said.For Gippsland-based Valerie Shaw, who works in the clinical development of drugs, Lisbett's story has encouraged her to advocate for changes to Australia's system of immigration.
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