The Serbian world number 1 managed to cancel the decision to reject its entry visa into the country
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Novak Djokovic should be able to stay in Melbourne and defend his title at the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam tournament of the year, organized from January 17th to 30th. Monday, January 10, the world number 1 has gained its appeal against the Australian Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Federal Tribunal of the City.
The Serb has managed to cancel the rejection of its entry visa on the Île-Continent, occurring on January 6, after the Australian authorities considered that he had not submitted the documents required to justify a medical exemption for VACCINATION against CVIV-19, mandatory to enter the country.
The Australian Government’s advocate, however, referred to the possibility of a new annulment of his visa, by the Minister of Immigration, who could use his “personal cancellation power”.
The judge, Anthony Kelly, immediately warned against such a scenario, stressing that in this hypothesis, Novak Djokovic could be deprived of access to Australian territory for three years. He also ordered his release within thirty minutes after the verdict. The audience, broadcast online, was accessible to all.
“What would have been able to do more?”
Saturday, the player had transmitted to the Tribunal, through his lawyers, a document in which he described the decision to prevent him from entering Australia of “gravely illogical, irrational or legally unreasonable” and put in guard against “the extremely damaging effect for [it] of a decision to cancel a visa – financially, in terms of reputation, professionally – as well as the consequences (at least) detrimental to the Open of Australia and the Tennis fans “.
The Ministry of Home Affairs supported that Novak Djokovic had benefited from a “fair procedure” and that an infection spent at COVID-19 was not a valid reason for a derogation, which seemed to be the Believe the player, who claimed to have followed the procedure by providing all the required evidence of a contamination in mid-December.
“I’m somewhere disrupted by that, what could he have done more?”, Asked, Monday morning, the judge, indicating that the player had provided the medical exemptions from a teacher, a “eminently qualified doctor”, not counting that of the two independent panels established by the State of Victoria and the Australian Tennis Federation to authorize it to participate in the tournament.
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