A mainland Chinese woman caught the attention of border control officers at Sydney Airport and began further questioning of her.
The mainland Chinese woman arrived at Sydney Airport on a tourist visa, claiming to be spending an eight-day holiday in Australia. The border control officer verified the documents provided by the woman, including her employer’s letter, but found that the phone number on it was not available and no relevant information could be found online. So the border control officer began further questioning of her.
The staff asked, “Why did you enter Australia today?”
“I came to travel ah, shopping.” The woman replied, “I have an itinerary saved in my phone …… Today is the first day and tomorrow I’m going to Darling Harbour and I’m also going to Sydney University because I think my son can study there.”
The woman told border control staff she had worked for a building materials sales company for 10 years and that her boss had given her eight days’ leave to come to Sydney and paid for the trip in full. It was her first Time out of the country and she was raising a 9-year-old son with her husband in mainland China and didn’t know anyone in Australia herself.
The border inspector then asked, “And who booked the trip for you?”
“It was all booked by my boss single-handedly. The boss always takes care of me and I’m grateful to him.” The woman said, “I didn’t have to pay a penny myself.”
The border agent asked her what the construction materials in her company were used for, but the woman said, “Because I am in personnel, I only know roughly about the materials, but not the details or their prices.”
Alex, the border inspector who questioned her, was slightly surprised to hear this. He said, “I used to do personnel too, and now the question is, how can you not know what your company does? Because you need to place people who apply for jobs in the appropriate positions …… can you give me some details?”
The woman said that her husband was friends with the boss and entered the company on a relationship, so he didn’t need to know much about the job at all, “To be honest, I don’t know much about construction because I have a special relationship with the boss.” .
Once again, the border inspector called to verify the employer’s information she provided, and this time the call went through, but the call taker said that there was not a company there at all.
At this point, the woman probed to look at the border inspector’s phone and immediately said, “You dialed the wrong number, you do not dial ‘0’ in the middle can you?” She took the pen directly from the border agent and wrote down a series of numbers on the document.
The woman’s explanation did not convince Alex; instead, he assumed it was a fake document and began preparing to cancel her tourist visa. He picked up the letter from the woman’s employer and said, “It looks like you provided the wrong information on your tourist visa application.”
The border agent gave the woman 10 minutes to make a final plea. She said, “First of all, the company information is true, and I don’t know why you can’t verify it. I have a stable job and a stable income, and I don’t have any reason to give false information.”
But these explanations ultimately failed to explain why border officials were unable to contact her alleged “employer. Border officials eventually decided to cancel the woman’s tourist visa, and she was eventually deported to China and barred from entering Australia for three years.
Alex concluded, “It’s a very simple case, you provide the information, we verify the information, and if the information is found to be false or incorrect, we will cancel your visa.”
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