After failing for years to secure a meeting with the Home Affairs Minister, Afghanistan veteran Jason Scanes finally met Peter Dutton on Friday — days after meeting Opposition Leader Bill Shorten.

Since 2014, the retired Army captain has been seeking ministerial intervention in a decision that rendered his former Afghan translator ineligible for a humanitarian visa over supposed links to the Taliban.

At the meeting in Mr Dutton's Brisbane electorate office, Mr Scanes said the Minister told him he had not changed his position on a refusal to intervene.

But Mr Scanes said he had some renewed hope in the wake of the meeting.

Mr Scanes waited for days outside Mr Dutton's office hoping for a meeting. ( Supplied: Jason Scanes )

He said he was redirected to the Minister's senior adviser on the topic, as Mr Dutton turned his attention to Mr Scanes' charity, Forsaken Fighters.

Interpreters supported by Forsaken Fighters have applied for protection visas under the Federal Government's program for translators who are deemed to be at risk because of their work for the Australian Defence Force.

More than 900 have been granted to Iraqi and Afghans since the program's inception in 2013.

Mr Scanes said Mr Dutton assured him he would have ongoing access to senior advisers within the Home Affairs Department to improve the processing of interpreters eligible for the program.

"What we're asking for is not unreasonable — we're asking that these guys have appropriate recognition for the service they've provided, that information is passed to them in a timely fashion regards to their application processing," he said.

"At this stage, the Minister is acting on the information he has from other agencies — I don't dispute that, I haven't seen that information.

Jason Scanes (R) and his wife Jackie met with Mr Shorten earlier this month. ( Supplied: Jason Scanes )

"Certainly, he's indicated his position won't be changing on that particular case at this stage."

Mr Scanes said he had lodged a case in the Federal Court against the Department of Home Affairs, hoping to have the decision overturned, which was set to be heard early next year.

"I've passed on new information to his senior adviser and I hope that they will be able to look into that with new information and I would like to see that averted," Mr Scanes said.

Mr Scanes said he had travelled to Canberra three times in the past and had sat outside Mr Dutton's Dickson office for four days in pursuit of a meeting, all to no avail.

Then on September 20, he met with Mr Shorten.

"Bill Shorten was fantastic. Bill called me prior to that meeting and he also gave us access [to] sit down and talk to some of his senior staff," Mr Scanes said.

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"But I'm confident that regardless of the department or government that's in at the time, anyone will look at the issues that we're discussing."

In recent weeks, the Home Affairs Minister has also taken political fire for overriding his own department to grant visas to at least two au pairs who had broken their visa conditions.

Mr Dutton's sudden availability to sit down with the Forsaken Fighters CEO caught the attention of many of charity's supporters on social media.

"Isn't it amazing what an approaching election and Bill Shorten's commitment to bring military aid personnel from Afghanistan to Australia will do," Merrilyn Wasson said on the charity's Facebook post.

Frustrated by what he believed to be a flawed processing system, Mr Scanes quit his full-time job earlier this year to focus solely on advocating for interpreters seeking refuge in Australia.

"Whilst it has been a long road to meet with the Minister he was not rushed, he was open to possible ways we might be able to value add and improve the visa pathway for interpreters," he said.