SYDNEY: An autistic Filipino boy whose fight against deportation from Australia prompted tens of thousands to petition the government on his behalf will be allowed to stay, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said Monday.

Tyrone Sevilla arrived in Australia as a two-year-old with his nurse mother Maria Sevilla.

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