Visa Without A Country
– by Olga Yastrubetskaya with Ken Baker

 

 

Imagine leaving the country of your birth where your exit visa allowed a 20 kg suitcase and 36 roubles
exchange per person.What do you pack and what do you leave? Family photographs or other precious memorabilia?
Before the fall of the Soviet Union many faced this choice. “Visa without a Country “ is Olga Yastrubetskaya’s
personal and family story of migrating from Ukraine to Australia, their  family history and challenges reaching the destination of choice. It  is a story of determination and courage that mirrors the experience of multitudes arriving on Australian shores.