Man left in asylum limbo for 14 years

A MAN’s life has been left in asylum-seeking limbo for 14 years, while he has attempted to navigate the broken asylum system which has been threatening to deport him since 2000.

The man, who has a nine-year-old son, was in his 20s when he first sought refugee status in April 1997.

Fourteen years later he is still stuck in the system and is now a middle-aged man. One of more than 11,000 people trapped in the asylum process, he has not been able to work in all that time and says he is worn out from the stress and threat of deportation every day.