Staff with Australian souvenirs wait for the passengers at the Sydney International Airport on Feb 21, 2022, as Australia reopened its borders for fully vaccinated visa holders, tourists, and business travellers. (Photo: AFP)
For British banker Roger Smyth, Australia’s border reopening could not come soon enough. After landing at Sydney Airport on Monday morning, he embraced his girlfriend Danni Wang for the first time in three months — the pair now plan to marry during Smyth’s week-long visit.
“I tried every day to get here,” says Smyth, who met Wang in Tokyo before she moved to Australia to study. “We tried to make it on Valentine’s Day, I applied for an exception, but I got declined.”
Smyth was among the first passengers to arrive in the country as it allowed travel by…
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