More than 80,000 people have signed an online petition calling for an Iranian asylum seeker to be allowed to stay in Australia.
Mojgan Shamsalipoor, whose bridging visa expires within days, says her life has been "rebuilt" since arriving in Australia in 2012.
As of Friday afternoon, a Change.org petition calling on Immigration Minister Peter Dutton to let her stay in the country to apply for a partner visa had received 80,397 signatures.
"I went to high school here, made incredible friends and married a beautiful man," it reads.
"But in just a matter of days my bridging visa expires, and unless Minister Dutton allows me to apply for permanent residency, I could be forced back into detention or worse, to Iran."
Ms Shamsalipoor is on her second bridging visa and was previously placed into detention following a failed visa application in August 2015.
She was only released in September last year following a campaign by her former high school friends and teachers to set her free.
Prior to her detention, Ms Shamsalipoor had planned to become a midwife
The Change.org petition was posted on Tuesday after her plight was detailed in an episode of Australian Story.
"It is nothing to do with the policies, it is nothing to do with the government, it is just to do with two people who love each other so much and they want to live together," Ms Shamsalipoor's husband, Iranian refugee Milad Jafari, told the ABC program.
Lawyer Kevin Kadirgamar said the couple fell into different categories for immigration purposes because Mr Jafari's father was a political activist, whereas his wife had endured personal hardship.
Her application may have also been rejected because she did not talk about suffering sexual abuse at hands of a family member in Iran, he said.
The petition is the fastest-growing listing on the site.
