Under section 15 of the Immigration Act, it states, "(1) No visa or entry permission may be granted, and no visa waiver may apply, to any person … who has …been removed, [or] excluded … from another country."—under the same basis the Australian journalist Mary Ann Jolley was excluded from or prevented from boarding a plane in Australia to come to New Zealand for personal reasons because she'd been deported from Malaysia, yet Mr Boochani got through.