Refugees scared of citizenship test
- A fear of failing Australia's citizenship test is stopping refugees from applying to become citizen, a Victorian ethnic group says.
- It's created barrier with the refugees, who were afraid of going to the test. They have been traumatised, never had education and the fear of failing is a big issue.
- The people feel 'why are they testing us, if they didn't want us, why did they bring us here ?'
- The government said there were fears the level of English used in the test had "crept up" to native speaker level, rather than the basic level supposed to be used.
- Since the test was introduced last October, 1,286 people failed it at their first attempt. Mr Afra said there should be concessions for refugee groups who came from "less fortunate" background, or these people would remain stateless.
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