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Sat 07 Jul 2008Review of visa system after family left in camp for 3 years
MINISTER FOR Justice Dermot Ahern has ordered a review of immigration procedures after apologising before the High Court to a Somali woman over "profound systems failures" which resulted in her husband and three children being left in an Ethiopian refugee camp for the last three years.
The family were never told of the department's decision to grant them visas in 2005.
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