A registered migration agent who wishes to remain unknown, has managed to get into Sydney Airport international departures area with her Australian passport and without a boarding pass on the weekend.
The migration agent went to take her son through customs at Sydney Airport. She was not flying with her son. The migration agent went through the customs hall and placed her passport on the scanner, then entered the departures hall without a problem. She did not complete a departures card and put it in the glass box as she was not departing.
The migration agent then said goodbye to her son, and proceeded to leave the airport departures hall. She tried to get out via the customs security gates. A security guard said 'you shouldn't be here'. The guard told the agent to tell border security that 'she had left her medication in the car' as the reason she needed to leave the departures hall. The agent was let out by Border Force, but the Border Force held her passport as they assumed that she was coming back to join a flight. The migration agent said 'I am not coming back and I just came in to see my son off. I need my passport'.
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