Neil Para and his wife and two eldest children have been on a temporary protection visa since they arrived in Australia in 2012
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For 11 years, Neil Para’s life has been riddled with uncertainty.
He fled war-torn Sri Lanka for Malaysia in 2008 in search of a safer life for his growing family, temporarily leaving his pregnant wife behind.
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