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| | Ruddock's blackmail: refugees robbed of human rights |
 | | Now, even that hope has gone, because the government has put every Afghan refugee, whether their three-year temporary protection visa had expired or not, on a Class XC bridging visa. |
 | | It maintains all the restrictions of a temporary protection visa, but leaves a refugee facing even greater uncertainty because it remains valid, according to immigration department guidelines, only until a holder's application for a further protection visa is finally determined. |
 | | The vast bulk of the 12,000 temporary protection visa holders, perhaps 90%, are from Iraq and Afghanistan. |
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