Hi my name is Kayla, this is not something I wanted to do but I feel like I have no other choice. My husband, Lorenzo has had his visa cancelled in Australia and has been sitting in the Immigration Detention Centre for 15 months. We’ve anxiously been waiting for answer to see if they would allow him to come home to myself and our two little boys or deport him back to New Zealand.

My husband has definitely had a troubling past when he was younger, but for the last 6 years he has overcome addiction, and so much trauma he’s experienced in life.

To overcome these issues he attended Victory house rehabilitation and graduated a 12 month program becoming a House supervisor and guiding other men to overcome addiction. He then worked full time , lived a clean life while we awaited the arrival of our second son ready for the many happy memories to come but that all came to a crashing end without warning.

My husband was taken to prison 1 week before our youngest was born,. He was in prison for 2 months for his visa to then be cancelled a week before he was meant to be released and has been in Pinkenba Immigration Detention Centre ever since all for a situation that occurred in September 23 between family that we thought had been completely dealt with and was in the past.

We just found out we now have a chance to go to court to fight his review in 3 months and are needing to find $12,000 to hire an immigration lawyer. I wish I could come up with that on my own, but with no daycare able to enrol my youngest 5 days a week around were we live this limits me to be able to work just yet.

I have started uber eats which I do with the baby every day and night , I just don’t know how I will be able to do it on my own.

I just want our family to have a fighting chance to stay in Australia. If my husband gets deported, our family will move and our kids will be away from their loved ones here in Aus.

If you can’t donate that’s okay, a share is just as much of a blessing to us.

Thanks for taking your time to read this we are so grateful.

Kayla Vogel