Novak Djokovic’s Australian visa may very well be cancelled once more regardless of courtroom reprieve

Novak Djokovic’s bid to defend his Australian Open crown and go previous Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal and get his twenty first Grand Slam in Melbourne may very well be in bother regardless of an Australian federal courtroom quashing the federal government’s determination to cancel his visa.

Federal Circuit and Family Court decide Anthony Kelly on Monday heard Djokovic’s case and ordered the Serb be launched from immigration detention the place he was held up for the final 4 days after the Australian Border Force cancelled his visa upon arrival in Melbourne earlier this month, citing lack of proof for a medical exemption to Covid-19 vaccine.Judge Kelly additionally ordered Djokovic’s passport and different journey paperwork returned to him, permitting him to defend his crown and launch a bid for the tenth Australian Open title when the season’s first Grand Slam event will get underway from January 17.Djokovic took the authorized path to problem Australia’s visa cancellation, arguing he didn’t want proof of vaccination as a result of he had proof that he had been contaminated with the coronavirus final month. Court paperwork say the World No. 1 tennis participant is unvaccinated in opposition to Covid-19.CAN DJOKOVIC’S VISA BE CANCELLED AGAIN?However, the Australian authorities’s legal professionals, nevertheless, instructed the courtroom that the nation’s immigration minister was reserving the fitting to train a separate energy to cancel the tennis star’s visa once more.According to Australian journalist Paul Karp, the immigration minister has the fitting below part 133C(3) of the Migration Act to cancel Djokovic’s visa once more. If it occurs, Djokovic would face deportation once more and miss the Australian Open even when he appeals in opposition to such cancellation because the event organizers had mentioned they’d not wait past January 11 to verify the Serb’s availability to function within the Grand Slam event.Djokovic may be barred from getting into Australia for 3 years if his visa is canceled once more.However, confirming that such a step, if taken, would bar Djokovic from the nation for 3 years, decide Kelly warned the federal government legal professionals that “the stakes have now risen, rather than receded.”All the information shops alerting that Djokovic will play the 2022 Australian Open appear to have missed the government’s lawyer revealing THEY COULD STILL CANCEL HIS VISA AND HE COULD BE BOOTED FOR 3 YEARS— Paul Karp (@Paul_Karp) January 10, 2022
Under the mentioned part of the immigration act, the minister, Alex Hawke must be happy {that a} floor exists to cancel the visa — on this case the purported risk to public well being as a result of he’s unvaccinated and the visa-holder “does not satisfy the minister that the ground does not exist” and that it might be within the public curiosity to cancel the visa.Notably, the legal professionals for Home Affairs Minister Karen Andres had mentioned of their submission that if the decide dominated in Djokovic’s favor, officers may cancel his visa a second time.They mentioned the vaccination requirement may solely be deferred for arriving travellers who’ve had a COVID-19 an infection if their sickness was acute. “There is no suggestion that the applicant had ‘acute major medical illness’ in December” when he examined constructive, the written submission mentioned.HIGH PROFILE ‘ANTI-VAXXER’Notably, on Sunday, Australian immigration skilled Christopher Levingston had highlighted that Djokovic might not even win the courtroom battle and that the Serb appeared to have develop into a standard-bearer for anti-vaccine teams, together with some individuals who’ve gathered exterior for assist exterior his immigration resort.”If Mr Djokovic has a high profile as an ‘anti-vaxxer’, then the government might say that that was inconsistent with the Australian government’s policy of encouraging Australians to be vaccinated,” Levingston had instructed Sky News.Djokovic garnered assist from the tennis fraternity as fairly a couple of gamers slammed the Australian authorities’s dealing with of the problem. Former World No. 1 Andy Murray mentioned he was involved for the well-being of Djokovic.Djokovic is just not the one tennis participant caught up within the Australian visa difficulty. The Australian authorities cancelled the visa of Czech participant Renata Voráová and an unnamed official. Voracova determined to depart Australia on Sunday after she was despatched to the identical immigration detention facility the place Djokovic was put up.