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Help Valentina with work-permit appeal filing and attorney fees

Valentina needs $3,300 for filing fees and representation in a work-permit appeal before the August deadline.

🇦🇺 Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia775 views
Rachel W. Clark
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Wollongong
Valentina is facing a work-permit appeal. The hearing is scheduled for August, and the filing fees and the lawyer's retainer come to $3,300. Three legal-aid offices have said their waiting lists are longer than the deadline. Valentina has all the paperwork ready, and a caseworker at the Wollongong Community Legal Centre has confirmed that the case is valid. If the deadline is missed Valentina could lose the right to stay with the family and the job. The children were born here and this is the only home they know. Funds cover only the filing fees, translations and attorney retainer. Where the $3,300 goes: • Attorney retainer: $2,450 • Filing and biometrics fees: $460 • Certified translations and document copies: $240 • Court-appointed interpreter and travel: $150 Thank you for reading my story. - Rachel
#legal#immigration#family

Updates from Rachel

  1. Update from Wollongong: we've started the first stage. We're at 8% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.

  2. We're at 7% thanks to 10 of you. the first invoice got paid this week. More news soon. - Rachel

  3. Small update. $141 so far, the plan for filing and biometrics fees is now scheduled.

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    “Hope things get better. Thought of Valentina all day after reading this. - Mendoza”

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  • Elena W. Lacson

    Praying for you, Rachel. Shared it with a few friends. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it.

    • Clara Bishop

      Rooting for you, Rachel. Your post was clear and honest.

      • Habib Pavel KhatunID verified

        rooting for you. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Thinking of Wollongong

        • Sneha S. Sidhu

          Rooting for you, Rachel. I hope things turn around soon.

          • Matilde Elena Neri

            I hope things turn around soon. I went through something like this 4 years ago and strangers helped me out. Take care

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