[spireite tom]

Hope there is som eway he can get in the country he seemed a decent player!

[dalekpete]

Alex Green, on Jun 7 2005, 02:04 PM, said:

how did the other aussies get them then??
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Most are either on young peoples/student terms which are short term or have one grandparent born in the British Isles.

[dalekpete]

Alex Green, on Jun 7 2005, 03:04 PM, said:

Cant we give him a one year contract and take it from there then? thats longer than most students!
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I guess he used up his student bits during his two years as a "scholar" at Soton!

[fishini]

spireiteblue, on Jun 7 2005, 02:26 PM, said:

,the club only tells half the story.
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So whats changed then? It's like getting information out of MI5

[Denny]

spireiteblue, on Jun 7 2005, 02:12 PM, said:

http://www.globalvis...t.aspx?zid=1046

I don't know if work permits have any issue with his application.
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Well the bit at the start of that page was to do with transeffering staff from an overseas branch of a company to uk, ie, somebody from Microsoft USA coming to work for Microsoft UK. As we don't have a CFC-Oz Ltd then we can't use that.

Plus there are specific rules for footballers, they must have played a good percentage of internationals over the past couple of years or must be classed as an exceptional talent. I doubt the keeper came under either of these rules.

The way other austrailians play here is under another EU passport, eg, Italian if they have some Italian heritage.

Den

[richrichard]

Alex Green, on Jun 7 2005, 03:20 PM, said:

Just get him to seek asylum easy and always works.
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ain't that the truth, he should just claim he's been persecuted back in oz

[Wooden Spoon]

spireiteblue, on Jun 7 2005, 02:07 PM, said:

needs to have a minmum of qualifications
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unless your from eastern europe or iraq.

maybe the fact he speaks english and had a job to go to went against him

[lubic]

death, on Jun 8 2005, 05:50 PM, said:

unless your from eastern europe or iraq.
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EU Country/Country where lots of people die. I bet the keeper would have had even more problems had he tried to get into Aus as an Brit - their controls are stricter than ours.

[dalekpete]

Paul, on Jun 8 2005, 07:39 PM, said:

EU Country/Country where lots of people die.  I bet the keeper would have had even more problems had he tried to get into Aus as an Brit - their controls are stricter than ours.
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Of course as a new refugee he would have gone to a secure centre, had papers that stopped him working and £35 of food vouchers a week. All of this might have made playing football difficult-

However this is getting away from the remit of the MB and further debate about refugees might be curbed. Debate about work permits is valid within reason.

[Mr Mercury]

dalekpete, on Jun 8 2005, 11:37 PM, said:

Of course as a new refugee he would have gone to a secure centre, had papers that stopped him working and £35 of food vouchers a week.  All of this might have made playing football difficult- 

However this is getting away from the remit of the MB and further debate about refugees might be curbed.  Debate about work permits is valid within reason.
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Either that or escaped from the underside of a lorry at any M1 services and then re-appeared some time later and took us all to the cleaners.

Mr Mercury.

[Wooden Spoon]

dalekpete, on Jun 8 2005, 09:37 PM, said:

  Debate about work permits is valid within reason.
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if he cut his fingers off, was from romania,and used papers which the consulate knew to be false, he could have got a permit. as an electrician.