Partner visa – spouse and Australian citizen son off shore

I lived in Australia since 2001 and became an Australian in 2007. All those years I thought my life is over. But then a miracle happened and I met my wife on Facebook. I went to Africa to see her in 2013, we married and we had a baby in 2014 .

That is when I have decided to bring both of them to Australia. I applied for spouse visa for my wife and my son. But under the health check requirement, my wife failed and the visa was refused for both of them. Then I got my son a citizenship of Australia by descent. But still my wife was refused the visa.

That application took about two years. Then I had to apply AAT which took another long wait. At that moment I hated my life  and  the fact that I couldn’t see my wife and son for nearly five years . I was stressed and depressed, mentally physically and emotionally. On top of that I had to support two house holds - one where my wife and son were living and the other one is the big place I leased hoping they will come .

The Australian government left me emotionally and financially broke. A family should be only separated by death, not because of health requirements for visa.