The deadline has passed for an Australian family living in Scotland facing deportation from the UK.
Kathryn and Gregg Brain, who moved from Australia to Dingwall in the Scottish Highlands with their son Lachlan in 2011, had until the end of Monday to secure a job for Kathryn Brain that meets British Home Office visa requirements, after being granted an extension on their leave to remain.
The family initially moved to the UK on her student visa but a two-year post-study visa scheme then on offer was later withdrawn by the British Government.
Gregg Brain said the family had received around a dozen job offers but none that met the specifications for a UK tier two visa.
He said they remain hopeful that a 28-day extension could now be secured.
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"As we understand it, you can usually make an application within 28 days of the expiry of your leave period," he told the Press Association.
"We'll be still talking to the lawyers, we'll be trying to find a way forward and still hoping that the Home Office will see that the honourable course is to do what they said they were going to do when they asked us to come here."
