In May Abdellatif and his family were offered hope with the possibility of a temporary protection visa.
Learning that his brother, Sakina's father, was in Australia on a temporary protection visa, Sajjad Sarwari wrote to him.
That is because they were offered a temporary protection visa, and that was not what they wanted when they came to this country".
While being held in Darwin, before being taken to Christmas Island, Chegeni was sent a letter inviting him to apply for a temporary protection visa to live in Australia.
The current immigration minister, Peter Dutton, has allowed Abdellatif to apply for a temporary protection visa, but his application has been stalled for more than five months, without any progress towards ending the family's continued detention and separation.
This date represents a cut-off point as part of a "one-off deal" made by then immigration minister Scott Morrison with crossbench senator Ricky Muir to pass the federal government's temporary protection visa legislation.
