Novak Djokovic facing three-year ban from re-entering Australia after visa cancellation

Novak Djokovic is going through the prospect of being deported from Australia (Getty)

Novak Djokovic may very well be banned from re-entering Australia for as much as three years after his visa was rejected.

The world No.1 is now on the centre of a authorized battle to remain within the nation and is going through the prospect of being deported after he was detained at Melbourne Airport on Wednesday night time.

Djokovic, who has refused to substantiate whether or not he has obtained a coronavirus vaccination, claimed he had been granted a medical exemption to be able to compete on the Australian Open.

However upon arriving in Melbourne on a flight from Dubai, the Australian Border Drive declare that Djokovic ‘failed to supply applicable proof to fulfill the entry necessities’.

Djokovic is now spending the weekend in a detention lodge after his court docket listening to was adjourned till 10am Monday native time.

If Djokovic loses his case and is deported, Professor of Public Legislation at College of Sydney, Mary Crock, claims the 34-year-old may very well be excluded from re-entering Australia for the subsequent three years.

Novak Djokovic received the Australian Open for the ninth time in his profession final 12 months (Reuters)

‘He’ll keep there till both he's granted a visa or faraway from the nation, and that can depend upon the appliance he makes to the Federal Courtroom,’ Professor Crock advised NCA NewsWire.

‘His visa may have been cancelled both on the idea that he didn’t meet the entry necessities, or he made some false assertion.

‘He doesn’t have the appropriate to enchantment on the deserves of something – he can’t say ‘I’m the perfect tennis participant, let me in’.

‘He has to indicate the cancellation of his visa was performed in a authorized error.

‘There’s a number of politics taking part in each methods with this.

‘The legislation on that is very weighted in favour of the federal government of the day.

‘Conversely, in case you apply for the mistaken visa, the discretion to be granted one other visa on the level of entry may be very restricted.

‘And if a visa has been cancelled, the results of which can be very long run – each for Australia and every other nation he enters, since you are all the time requested ‘have you ever been deported or excluded?’.

‘If he’s deported from Australia, there’s a possible he may very well be excluded for 3 years.’

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