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An older grandmother who fights in Australia after 40 years to stay in Australia, says that she is now confronted with a new 'torture' due to migration officials trying to kick her out.
Mary Ellis, 75, has made her 35th plea for a bridging visa to prevent them from being arrested and turned off the country in handcuffs.
But now she says that migration officials took the last removed what she thought was really her.
Instead of applying under her name Mary Philomena Ellis, her officer of the Case Department insists that she should call herself Mary Mchugo.
That was the married name of Mrs. Ellis in England, whom she did not use almost half a century since she separated from her first husband.
Gold Coast Migration Agent Stanley Shneider helps Mrs. Ellis Australian citizenship and described the latest development as 'absurd'.
“She used the last name Ellis for about 45 years, quite legal and correct,” he said.
'And everything she has done in Australia is like Mary Philomena Ellis and not Mary Philomena Mchugo. It is absurd. '
Mary Ellis has now been told by migration that she should use a name that she last used 45 years ago, of which her agent Stan Shneider says it is 'absurd' and a further 'torture' for the grandmother
Migration agent Stan Shneider has enthusiastically supported Mrs. Ellis and says that the Migration Act only offers the minister limited opportunities, but he tries it
Almost half a century ago, Mary became Ms. Mchugo when she married
Mrs. Ellis went on television for the first time last year to beg the Ministry of the Interior to stay in Australia after being threatened with deportation.
She claimed that she 'knows no soul' in her native country and insisted that she had never left Australia since her arrival in 1981.
Mrs. Ellis said that the claim of home matters that she left Australia three times under an alias between 1983 and 1986, were not true, just like accusations her deceased second husband Martin Ellis was really a man named Trevor Warren.
A Daily Mail research showed that Mrs Ellis had indeed flown back to the UK in the early 1980s and her disqualified of 'absorbed' citizenship among Australia's migration rules.
Mr. Shneider had previously insisted on the former Minister of Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs Andrew Giles – who has succeeded by Tony Burke in the portfolio – to use his power to recognize his client as an 'absorbed person'.
But now Mrs. Ellis's case worker is sure that she makes every bridging visa – that she has to apply for every three months – such as Mary Mchugo.
Mrs. Ellis was only 19 when she married soldier Sean Mchugo in Lambeth, Zuid -London in 1968, and the following year their daughter Angela was born in the same area.
It is believed that Angela's brother David Mchugo was born in 1971, although no report of his birth could be found in England and Wales.
Mary was 19 when she married soldier Sean Mchugo and the marriage failed. Now she has been told that she should call herself Mary Mchugo, a name she did not use in almost half a century
The marriage broke and Mrs. Ellis started a relationship with Martin Ellis – a name that the Australian government now says it was actually an alias for Trevor Warren.
Remembering how her mother left the UK with her two children, Daughter Angela said: “She and Trevor, her partner at that time, had always wanted to go to Australia.
'Trevor had at least one sister who lived there, maybe two. Mama and Trevor first went to Australia as a test run. Then we all went out like a family.
“But my brother and I hated it outside. Absolutely hated it. I was only there for about eight months.
'I was about 15 then and I came home to the UK and lived with an aunt. My brother came back and joined the British army. I have not seen my mother since I was 17. '
In the meantime, her brother David married in Canterbury, Kent, in July 1995. He spent the first part of his career in the UK and only emigrated to Australia in later years.
David, 53, is now a company director and offers project management on the railway sector around Sydney. Mrs. Ellis' ex-Man Sean Mchugo remarried in 1988, but he died 20 years later in Medway, Kent.
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.
The grandmother worked in hospitality and then 30 years for the government of New South Wales.
Mr. Shneider who initially described the residents of home affairs that since her arrival in 1981 she had left the country three times under an alias as 'nonsense'.
Mary Ellis whose feelings escalate every time her last visa is used up and the threats of immigration officials who are hit home have applied for 35 Visa and has now been told that her name is not 'Ellis'
Mary Ellis (above) loves Australia and wants to stay and with collecting online support it seems to believe a lot of Aussies that she earns work after decades and pay taxes here
Mr. Shneider avoided asking about the claims of Angela that her mother had returned to the UK in 1986.
“I have accepted the instructions of Maria in good faith and until it has been established, I will maintain those instructions,” he said.
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.
But threats to deport her have frightened Mrs. Ellis, who has great support on social media to stay her.
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.
Mr. Shneider, however, insisted that Mrs. Ellis had not requested an absorbed person visa – because no one can do no one under the Migration Act, it is only a status that is obtained if you are eligible – and therefore she was not refused a visa.
Mr. Shneider said that the part of the Migration Act that gives the minister the power to intervene at his pretty narrow, or in the worst case a kind of catch 22.
The tide of the opinion in Facebook discussions about the case of Mrs. Ellis is completely behind her and strong against the government's immigration laws.
A woman wrote online: 'The hell is this indignation, so she deserves to stay.
'The Minister of Immigration must solve this! Certainly general decency on behalf of the minister must be granted automatically!
“What does the immigration department on the hell does it come if we don't deport people from the neighborhood and a good scout must be deported and deported who did nothing wrong in the 40 years that she lived here !!!”
A popular figure in her community because of the time she spends volunteer work and raises money for the Salvation Army, Mrs Ellis also worked in Thuiszorg and has won prizes for volunteering
