Presumably this is the reason why we have to have such strict medicals. Seems it didn?t work in this case. Poor lad, but poor taxpayers as well.
Taxpayers could face $5m bill for sick migrant boy
9:55AM Tuesday February 06, 2007
Taxpayers could foot a $5 million bill to support a sick Romanian boy whose family lied so they could stay in New Zealand.
The child's parents kept his life-threatening blood disorder secret from immigration authorities amid fears he could die if sent home, the Dominion Post reported today.
Auckland District Health Board staff told the Deportation Review Tribunal the cost of providing continuing treatment for Adrian Vilceanu, 11, boy could climb to $5 million if he lived until the age of 50.
The tribunal found his parents, Romanian citizens Cezar and Constanta Camelia Vilceanu, had deliberately withheld information because they wanted better treatment for Adrian than he was receiving in Romania.
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