A four year old boy has been reunited with his mother in Australia after being stuck in India for the past two years due to COVID restrictions.
The boy who travelled with his grandparents to visit his father in India in July 2019 was unable to fly back to Australia after the border closure.
The boy is too young to fly alone and the federal government only permits immediate family members of an Australian citizen or permanent citizen to enter the country.
Immediate family members only includes according to this rule, a spouse, de facto partner, legal guardian, or a dependent child, not parents or grandparents.