<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A woman who has spent 12 years in </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/australia" rel="" target="_blank" title="Australia"><span>Australia</span></a><span> and is raising her three young children could be deported after a mistake made a decade ago on a visa application.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Ying-Hsi Chou, originally from Taiwan, has spent more than a decade in Murray Bridge in South Australia, marrying her husband Ben and becoming part of the community.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>But she could be separated from her family and deported back to Taiwan, after the Department of Home Affairs accused her of deliberately misleading authorities when making a visa application.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>AS IT HAPPENED:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/us-israel-iran-war-live-updates-march-31-donald-trump-latest-world-news-headlines/dff4c600-1131-4ea1-9c36-c24ba0df6fcb" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>The government reviving a 77-year-old law to stop price gouging at the pump</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She accidentally put the wrong name in the application, and it could cost Chou her life in Australia.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I want to stay," she said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I just want safety, stay here, take care of my family."</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/australia-visa-south-australian-motherofthree-at-risk-of-deportation-after-decade-old-visa-mistake/9541d53d-5ffd-4aae-9dc7-5f17a232187d" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She begged for the Home Affairs office to understand it was a simple mistake and not an attempt to deceive.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/police-tracked-cars-repeated-trips-from-porepunkah-to-thologolong-before-fatal-shootout-that-killed-dezi-freeman/0529c4da-3391-4326-9d5e-6b12dd5d333b" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Police tracked car's repeated trips before fatal shootout that killed Dezi Freeman</span></strong></a><strong><span></span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I made a mistake, I'm very sorry."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She started a petition to be allowed to stay in Australia, with the Murray Bridge community rallying behind her.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Her husband, Ben Cox, was heartened by the support the community had shown his wife, and urged her to stay upbeat.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Just think positive," he said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>HEALTH:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/vaping-linked-to-cancer-new-study-says/caf07f72-8a56-4afa-8e53-a0c239dd2f73" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Study confirms parents' worst fears: vaping causes cancer</span></strong></a><strong><span></span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The Department of Home Affairs can grant a temporary partnership visa on compassionate grounds but Chou has been told her circumstances don't meet the criteria, despite the prospect of her three children being separated from their mother.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The state government is stepping in, promising to look into her case.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"There is a couple of families that we've been able to advocate for that have been able to stay together," Premier Peter Malinauskas said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"That's an approach that we reserved the right to repeat into the future, 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