The Tamil family at the centre of widely publicised deportation row remain on Christmas Island after the Federal Court decided to extend an injunction preventing their two-year-old child from deportation.
Priya and Nades and their two Australian-born daughters will have to wait until Friday when the injunction runs out to hear their fate.
Reacting to the news Priya told SBS Tamil that "we'll have to wait and see. The decision is postponed other than that there is no change."
But she again urged Prime Minister Scott Morrison to "have a change of heart and show mercy on us."
"I'm pleading with him again to provide a safe life for our children. My children were born here and have spent all their life in this country. Their life in Sri Lanka is not safe.
"I had a very difficult life. That is why I'm pleading with the prime minister to give my children a better life."
On Wednesday the Melbourne Federal Court ruled that the family's lawyers should have more time to consider a development from Immigration Minister David Coleman, who stated he would not be exercising his ministerial discretion to allow the two-year-old to remain in Australia.
The Prime Minister suggested the family return to Sri Lanka where they could apply for fresh Australian visas.
"I understand absolutely the motivation and the compassion that Australians have expressed in relation to this case ... But I also know from bitter experience that if you make the wrong calls on these issues, then you invite tragedy and you invite chaos."
Priya and her husband, Nadesalingam, came separately to Australia by boat in 2012 and 2013. They met here and had two children before settling in the Queensland town of Biloela.
Nadesalingam has said his links to Tamil Tigers insurgents who fought Sri Lanka's government during the country's civil war mean he's in danger of persecution if he goes home.
But the Home Affairs Minister said the family should accept that they "are not refugees, they're not owed protection by our country."
Peter Dutton said he travelled back to Sri Lanka on a number of occasions and he had been unable to convince a succession of courts that he would be in danger.
"No. He has not been to Sri Lanka since arriving here," Priya said.
"I am very certain about that. How could he when he was here on a Bridging Visa. Only if the Australian Government had granted permission, he could have visited Sri Lanka anyway. It is a very wrong comment."
