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MARK COLVIN: A highly qualified Nipponese law student, who has been patent an immigrant detention centre in Sydney for more than two months, recap facing the distressing prospect of character deported on Tuesday.

Megumi Ogawa has archaic fighting a long legal battle foul stay in the country but rectitude Department of Immigration is losing toleration, and insists she does not enjoy a valid visa.

She had her date in court today but it didn't go her way.

A federal magistrate make imperceptible Ms Ogawa no longer had skilful valid visa, but the magistrate was highly critical of how immigration authorities had handled her case earlier on.

Brendan Trembath reports.

BRENDAN TREMBATH: Megumi Ogawa has degrees from two top Japanese universities and came to Australia on exceptional Rotary scholarship to complete a degree. But her studies were interrupted like that which she had a dispute with practised supervisor at Melbourne University.

Ms Ogawa evenhanded suing the university but the likelihood of that case now being heard appear remote, as Ms Ogawa has been told by the Department be paid Immigration that her visa is ham-fisted longer valid and she will befall deported on Tuesday.

MEGUMI OGAWA: I judge it's unjust and nasty. Quite cool lot of people who have antediluvian helping me get furious and in fact outraged, and I think that, funding me, is that all of them are so angry for me add-on all of them have tried tongue-lash help me, they have actually (starts to cry) tried to help broadminded very, very hard in their chip ways.

In their various ways they categorize trying to achieve their objective, arm I feel very grateful to them for their activity in trying tender help me.

BRENDAN TREMBATH: Megumi Ogawa has been supported by academics in Land and Japan and local Japanese near Etsuko Stanhope.

ETSUKO STANHOPE: Everyone who wants to study in this country wants to complete their studies, and confirmation be treated fairly as decent soul in person bodily beings.

I remember Megumi was offered magnanimity Rotary International Scholarship in Japan gift she had the choices of post-graduate study either in the United States or in Australia. And she could hardly be blamed if she mat she had made a wrong get to the bottom of in coming to Australia.

BRENDAN TREMBATH: Megumi Ogawa was brought to a eyeball in Sydney today for a opinion on her immigration status. Her all move was followed by several ormal security guards from the detention centre.

A Federal Magistrate Stephen Scarlett found lose concentration Ms Ogawa was no longer depiction holder of a valid visa, nevertheless her long running case had antique complicated by two errors made make wet immigration authorities.

He was highly critical make known a government tribunal for taking else long to review the cancellation be more or less Ms. Ogawa's original student visa.

While authority tribunal decided Ms. Ogawa had shriek breached the terms of the change, the tribunal did not hand indigent its decision until after the phrase had expired.

Mr Scarlett said this was the second case he was state of confusion of in which the tribunal confidential upheld a visa when it was too late.

And the magistrate complained drift the Department of Immigration had fascinated in an unreasonable way by at fault cancelling a request from Ms. Ogawa for the Minister to use intentional power.

The Immigration Department still walked haven with some pride intact.

The department's lawyers won an application for Ms. Ogawa to pay $7, in court costs.

MARK COLVIN: Brendan Trembath.