A grandmother who fights deportation was recognized as a model citizen for her selfless volunteering after having lived in Australia for 40 years.
Mary Ellis, 74, is still on a merry -go -round from Brugvisa while she is fighting to stay in the country, and was even told that she cannot officially use her own name.
The hard -working grandmother, in the midst of her debilitating struggle with the Ministry of Immigration, has been Nominated for the newest senior from New South Wales Volunteer of the Year Award for one Second time as recognition for her service to her community.
Now her migration agent has hit the Albanian government for her 'terrible' treatment by the staff of the migration department and noticed the order of the retired 'torture'.
Stanley Shneider told Daily Mail Australia that he believes that migration -minister Tony Burke 'will be shocked by the behavior of his staff'.
The Gold Coast Migration Agent had previously insisted on the Minister of Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs to use his power to recognize his client as an 'absorbed person'.
“She is one of the nicest people ever to fulfill that role,” she said.
“But I bet London bets a brick that the minister never received the file from his followers.”
It for the second year to be nominated, because NSW Senior Volunteer of the Year brought a smile on the face of the 75-year-old in the midst of the 'torture' of her running struggle with the Department of Immigration to stay in Australia
Mary's defender Gold Coast migration agent Stan Shneider (above, together) dismissed a broad on the behavior of migration staff that the new minister Tony Burke would have been shocked
Mrs. Ellis worked in hospitality for 30 years and then for the government of New South Wales.
A popular figure in her community because of the time she spends volunteering and collects money for the Salvation Army, Mrs. Ellis also worked in home care. Her volunteer work earned her price nominations for 2023 and 2024.
Two weeks ago, Daily Mail Australia revealed that Mrs. Ellis de Gran's case worker and her agent had surprised with the 'absurd' requirement about which name to use.
The case worker insisted that Mary stops using Ellis in her migration transactions and 'Mchugo' started to use the name of her first husband who died decades ago.
Mr. Shneider has now given Daily Mail Australia the letter he sent to Mary's Case Officer about the name Switch, 57 years after the couple married and about half a century since they were divorced.
“Your department started to make demands of her many years ago and always spoke to her at the surname Ellis,” Mr. Shneider wrote to the case officer.
“Until today, when you first started calling her with her long unused name Mchugo.”
There have been around 34 applications in its true name Ellis granted by the Department for many years and submitted an application to the Minister of Ministerial Intervention in her name Ellis.
Mary's volunteer work earned her price nominations for 2023 and 2024, all this time when she is threatened with deportation
Stan Shneider wrote to Mary's migration case worked on the 'absurd' requirement that she uses the surname of her long dead ex-husband
“She has used the name Ellis pretty well and fairly legally for 45 years,” he added.
After the last story of the post, Aily Australia readers gathered around the grandmother and are destructive about 'confusing' migration rules.
It led to furious debate among readers about immigration rules, Australian citizenship and the acquisition of ID documents.
Many female readers focused on the traditions of changing someone's name to get married, and then back after divorce.
A reader said: 'Not everyone comes from functional families.
'She trusted her partner and lived here de facto. Even the government has hired it. Let's see if the Albo government can have the power to use common sense and humanity here. '
Another posted: “In my eyes, the 40 years of good behavior and a good character is sufficient cause and reason for the good Australian immigration cap to enable her to live there.”
A third wrote: 'Whatever the reasons are … She has been legally for 40 years here … has worked and contributed to this country … has not committed any crimes and has been a model citizen.
Mary is forced to dump her own name for an old married name that she had not used for 45 years led to furious debate among readers about immigration rules
“There should be no discussion whether she can stay or not … She is being treated terribly … but typical of the Labor Government … There is absolutely no reason to send her back.”
The reactions to Mary's fate include people, both in Australia, the UK and the Ireland that damaged the government procedure.
An Irish reader wrote: 'This is a tragic matter and the government applies the regulation very dogmatically, or they are indeed just ashamed that she was a government officer for many years. What does her business director do relatively to help? It is a pity that she has never applied for citizenship. '
Another said: 'The temporary bridging visas each last 3 months. So 4 a year, because she was called to the HA department and told that she was illegal. No rocket science … She is a grandmother who has lived, worked (including for the government!) & Paid taxes in AUS for decades. '
Anywhereaustralia placed: 'British subjects received special treatment until the early 1980s when Keating changed the laws. There was a respite period for a change and I think it was in the early 80s. I think that if she had stayed of 81, even without a PR, because women often accepted the word of the man, she might have been covered, but that they say they left twice, the problem could cause. All very confusing. '
Mary Ellis' fight to stay in Australia First came to light when she went on television last year to beg the Ministry of the Interior to stay in Australia after being threatened with deportation.
The Interior claimed that she left Australia three times under an alias between 1983 and 1986, so that she was not eligible to qualify to stay as an 'absorbed' person.
The department also said that Mary's deceased second husband Martin Ellis was really a man named Trevor Warren, and that she had lied about her past. She denies both allegations.
A popular figure in her community because of the time she spends volunteering and collects money for the Salvation Army, Mar Ellis also worked in home care
Mary was only 19 when she married soldier Sean Mchugo in London in 1968, but she separated and he remarried and died 20 years ago, so it's a kick in the guts for Mary to have to use his name again
Mrs. Ellis told Daily Mail Australia that her partner told Australia in 1981 that he has acquired permanent residence visa for both of them – which she discovered until her shock was not where decades later was.
In an interview with the nine network of Australia, she said: 'I have a driver's license, ID card, medicare card, pension card. Everything Australians have.
'I thought well, I am a permanent resident. You know, I do what I do every day. Nobody said anything. '
The discovery came when the pensioner was asked to visit the Brisbane office of the Interior Department, where she was told that she had lived illegally in Australia.
Domestic Affairs told Daily Mail Australia that the minister's personal intervention powers were only enlivened under certain sections of the Migration Act, that is when a person is refused a visa, or refuses to intervene an assessment tribunal in the case.
