Advocates say around 12,000 refugees and asylum seekers have been left on bridging or expired visas.
Hundreds of activists have gathered at Palm Sunday rallies around the country to demand the federal government give permanent visas for refugees stuck in limbo.
Seeking asylum in Australia, he jumped on a rickety boat in 2012 and was detained on Christmas Island for two months. Protesters gathered in capital cities around Australia to call for better treatment of refugees and asylum seekers.But they said it had left about 12,000 other refugees and asylum seekers who were rejected under the previous government's fast-track process on bridging or expired visas.
The son of a senior official in Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime, he was detained in a Baghdad jail for eight months after successive Shi'ite-dominated governments and militias targeted families of the former regime when it fell in 2003.
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