Graeme – Upchurch, Kent UK
To start, many of the cases of us Aussies still stuck overseas are NOT of our making.. and liking(!) And like many thousands of other Aussies we could not just drop everything and come back in March this year from…
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Sam T. – New York
I live and work in New York. My awesome aunt Judy died earlier this year in QLD. Like many I was unable to get home to see her before she passed. Nor have we been able to celebrate her impact,…
Zion – Philippines
Zion is from Townsville North Queensland 17/09/2020 – Update from Zion: “After many months of cancellations I was finally able the get a flight via Air Niugini and got into Australia through a kind of back door route through PNG…
Neil – Glasgow UK
My wife and I are trying to return home to Queensland with our 5 year old I have secured a job with a start date of the 30th of September and looking unlikely in being home in time, risking our…
Jess P – United Kingdom
I’ve been in London for 5 years I was settled here with a job and house so when the government said stay put I listened. However in the wake of COVID I lost my job and can’t afford my flat…
Pam – Qatar
My husband’s contract was terminated recently We are due to leave the country 10th September to Brisbane where our children live. We have Business Class fares but I am not confident we will get on this flight. Our visas will…
Barbara – Brazil
I arrived in Brazil on April 1st To stay my family because my mom passed away. Supposed to be just 2 months, the time that I needed to organise the things here.
Sandi – United Kingdom
I arrived in the UK on the 6th March I went for a conference where I presented my PhD research. My partner went to on to Thailand and we were to meet up in Malaysia late in March. Now I…
Nemali & family – South Africa
We are permanent residents in a strange situation We had planned to emigrate a while ago but I had my second son while we were planning to emigrate, so we chose to wait to have him first and add him…
J & A Angus – Germany
We are husband and wife, stranded in Germany. We have been planning our return to Australia since November 2019, but things keep going awry. Six rebooking later, we are still stuck in Germany. We have no jobs, apartment or car.…