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Novak Djokovic to be kicked out of Australia in HOURS: Anti-vax world tennis No1 has his visa cancelled over vaccine exemption row and is taken to Melbourne quarantine hotel as his lawyers battle to stop him being put on first plane home

 


Novak Djokovic to be kicked out of Australia in HOURS: Anti-vax world tennis No1 has his visa dropped over antibody exclusion column and is taken to Melbourne quarantine lodging as his legal advisors fight to stop him being put on first plane home

Novak Djokovic has been told he will be ousted from Australia after his visa application was dismissed

Tennis player, 34, arrived at Melbourne Airport on an Emirates departure from Dubai at around 11.15pm

He was set in a segregation room with two gatekeepers positioned outside in the midst of the continuous question

He showed up only hours after PM Scott Morrison took steps to send the Serb back 'on the following plane home'

Novak Djokovic will be extradited from Australia after his visa was dismissed by authorities in the midst of a mistake with his application.

The No. 1 tennis star, who was kept at Melbourne's Tullamarine air terminal short-term, has been denied passage into Australia after at first being conceded a clinical exception for the country's Covid-19 immunization prerequisites so he could play in the Australian Open.

The 34-year-old was given a letter by the Australian government saying his visa had been denied and he would be extradited, a source near the competition said this evening.

Djokovic was moved to an inn in Carlton in Melbourne's downtown under police monitor as specialists orchestrate a removal flight .

Australia's Health Minister Greg Hunt affirmed today that Djokovic's visa had been dropped, and Border Force gave an assertion with that impact.

'The Australian Border Force will keep on guaranteeing that the people who show up at our boundary follow our laws and passage necessities,' an assertion read.

'The ABF can affirm that Mr Djokovic neglected to give suitable proof to meet the passage prerequisites to Australia, and his visa has been in this way dropped.

'Non-residents who don't hold a substantial visa on passage or who have had their visa dropped will be confined and eliminated from Australia. The ABF can affirm Mr Djokovic approached his phone.​'

Also Prime Minister Scott Morrison tweeted: 'Mr Djokovic's visa has been dropped. Rules will be rules, particularly with regards to our boundaries. Nobody is over these principles. Our solid line approaches have been basic to Australia having one of the most minimal demise rates on the planet from COVID, we are proceeding to be careful.'

Djokovic's attorneys are currently equipping to battle the visa wiping out in court, however it isn't clear assuming that the headliner will remain in Australia during the case.

In the interim, Serbian President Aleksanda Vucic said on Instagram that he has addressed Djokovic and added that Serbian specialists are going to lengths 'so the badgering of the best tennis player on the planet be halted in the most brief conceivable time.'

The tennis star will presently be moved to a lodging in Melbourne under police monitor until a removal trip back to Serbia can be sorted out.

Djokovik, who arrived in Melbourne on an Emirates departure from Dubai at around 11.15pm, was at first positioned in separation after authorities found his group had blundered his visa application to play in the Australian Open without being inoculated.

It came only hours after Prime Minister Scott Morrison took steps to send the Serb back 'on the following plane home' assuming that he was unable to give proof to his antibody exclusion.

The 34-year-old was caught at customs after a colleague a basic misstep in mentioning a sub-class of visa that doesn't make a difference to tennis players, sources told The Sydney Morning Herald .

The most recent advancement comes only hours after the tennis star's dad Srdjan Djokovic gave a critical assertion to the Australian government, approaching them to free his child who has been 'held hostage for five hours', adding it was 'a battle for the entire word!'

He said: 'I have no clue about what's happening, they're holding my child hostage for five hours.

'This isn't a battle for the freedom advocate world, this isn't only a battle for Novak, however a battle for the entire world! Assuming they don't release him in thirty minutes, we will assemble in the city, this is a battle for everyone.'

Srdjan told a Serbian radio broadcast his child was being kept disconnected in a room without admittance to his care staff or a cell phone.

'Novak is presently in a room which nobody can enter. Before the room are two police officers,' he told the B92 web gateway.

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