“I needed a job,” he told the officers, adding that when he came out of the detention centre, he applied for jobs but those required a car and driver licence. He told the officers that he paid money to his friends in Pakistan to arrange for the licence and said he did so to get a job without going through the usual process which requires obtaining a learner driver’s licence and then the Ps before going on to the full licence. He told them that he had never driven trucks before and that he had arranged with his friends in Pakistan to get him a driver’s licence. Mr Haidari, a truck driver, provided the officers a Queensland driver’s licence issued in July 2013 for heavy vehicles.

The information about the fake driver licence was disclosed during his interview with the officers of the Immigration Department (now the Department of Home Affairs) to make an up-to-date assessment of his identity. However, the approval for his Australian citizenship was cancelled in August 2017 after it was found that Mr Haidari used a counterfeit Afghan driver’s licence and used it to obtain an Australian driver’s licence.

The Afghan national applied for Australian citizenship in November 2014 which was approved in just over a month.

A migrant who used a fraudulently obtained overseas licence to get an Australian driver’s licence has had the approval for his Australian citizenship revoked.Ī migrant who travelled to Australia by sea and became a permanent resident nine years ago has had his Australian citizenship revoked after it was discovered he used a fake driver’s licence to get an Australian licence.Ģ6-year-old Ali Haidari was granted a permanent protection visa in September 2010 after he arrived in Australia by the sea in February of that year.

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