The family of a frail 93-year-old woman facing deportation to the UK has said she just wants to spend her final days with her great-grandchildren.
Mollie Manley, 93, moved to Perth 11 years ago from Somerset, England to be with her only daughter and her family.
Last month her aged parent visa application was rejected because the costs of her care mean she is considered a burden on the state.
The rejection means Ms Manley is facing being deported to the UK, where she was living alone after her husband died in the 1980s.
After suffering a stroke, Ms Manley lives in a care home near Perth and is visited by her three great-grandchildren, Logan, nine, Evan, seven, and Jasmine, three.
Speaking on the Today show on Thursday morning, their mother Lauren Oliver said Ms Manley just wants to spend the last days of her life with them.
Frail great-grandmother Mollie Manley (pictured with her great-grandchildren) faces being back to Britain where she has no family
Ms Manley's granddaughter Lauren Oliver pictured with her father-in-law Robert Rowe on the Today Show in Thursday morning
'It's really worrying and quite stressful,' she said.
'She just wants to be around us. We are here for her. She loves us and the great-grand kids.
An aged parent visa allows parents to stay in Australia permanently with their children - who must in turn be Australian citizens or have a permit for permanent residence.
The applicant must also prove that at least half their children are Australian citizens, and that they have more children living in Australia than any other country.
Successful applicants can then live in Australia and receive subsidised healthcare and some social security payments.
However, the health criteria state that an applicant must be free from disease and must be free of any condition which would cost the health sector more than $40,000 in total.
If the cost is likely to be more then the visa can be refused.
The visas are either contributory or non-contributory. Applicants for non-contributory visas often have to wait for several years for their application to be processed, but the fee that has to be paid is much lower.
'In her last days she just wants to be with us and, you know, if she goes back to the UK she's going to have no-one.'
Ms Oliver, Ms Manley's granddaughter, said she has not been able to tell her that she may be deported.
'We haven't been able to tell her. I don't know what it would do to her, to tell her this was going on. It would be heartbreaking.'
After Ms Oliver moved to Perth, her parents moved with her 15 years ago.
Four years later, Ms Manley moved out to be with them all.
She applied for an aged parent visa and stayed in the country on a bridging visa while it was pending.
After more than a decade, in which she went partially blind and suffered a stroke which required her to be taken into a care home, the application was rejected.
The family's lawyer says the legal grounds for the rejection are valid because her costs are expensive - but hopes the government will let her stay anyway out of compassion.
Ms Oliver told the Today show: 'We have at least eight members of her extended family all working and paying tax every week to the government
