A hard-working couple face an anxious wait to see if they will be kicked out of the country and forced to return to South Africa.
Charné-Lee Gunning, 31, and her fiancé Ivan Strauss, 37, arrived in Australia on visitor visas in December 2018 after fleeing South Africa.
The western Sydney couple are pleading with the federal government not to deport them as they wait for their protection visas to be approved.
If their application is rejected, they will have just five weeks to leave Australia and return to South Africa, where they will have nothing to go back to.
The couple also fear they'll be racially targeted and forced to live in fear of their lives if they return.
