98-year-old grandmother faces deportation to India after living in Australia for 12 years

A 98-year-old woman who has called Australia home for the past 12 years has been threatened with deportation to India, a country where she has no one that she can call her own.

Originally from the western Indian state of Goa, Esmeralda Rosario arrived in Australia on a tourist visa in 2007. She received an indefinite bridging visa a year later after her family applied for her aged-parent visa.

But their 12-year-long wait ended in a disappointment in November 2019, when Ms Rosario’s visa application was refused on grounds that her care would “result in a significant cost to the Australian community,” The Daily Telegraph reported.

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