The eighteen-year-old at the centre of a deportation action will have his case reconsidered by the minister.
Daman Kumar was born in New Zealand, and has never stepped foot in India, but is at risk of being deported there because he was born just months after our citizenship laws changed and is technically an overstayer with no legal right to be here.
Mike McMellon is an immigration lawyer based in Nelson and joins Emile Donovan to explain the case.