Ashleigh McMaster, 19, faces the threat of being sent back at any time after losing a long-running legal battle with the Home Office.
For two years she has been living under a cloud of uncertainty, unsure where her future lies, and desperate to stay with her family in East Yorkshire.
Next week Miss McMaster will head to the House of Commons, with her father Gary, to lobby ministers, at the invitation of Beverley and Holderness Tory MP Graham Stuart.
The MP has launched a scathing attack on the asylum system, and is personally championing her cause.
It comes after the Government suspended removals of failed asylum seekers until a High Court hearing in August, to test the legality of sending individuals back.
The failed asylum seekers say they are in danger of being ill-treated and abused in Zimbabwe, simply because they claimed asylum in the UK.
In the first three months of 2005, 95 Zimbabweans were forcibly removed and around 100 are currently detained, awaiting possible deportation.
Miss McMaster, who lives in Keyingham, near Hull, came to the UK to join her father, who is Zimbabwean and whose second wife is British, in 2003 after the family's farm was confiscated by gangs backed by President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF Party. She has been to court numerous times, eventually winning an appeal after her asylum claim was rejected. But this was overturned at the High Court in April.
Yesterday she said: "I am very nervous. We are at the top now. This is the highest we can go. I just want some kind of permanent status."
Mr Stuart is asking residents of Beverley to sign a petition for Ashleigh in Toll Gavel in the town this morning, which will be submitted to Home Office Minister Tony McNulty next week.
"I am asking all Beverley residents to help Ashleigh in her fight to stay in this country," he said. "She is a lovely girl who needs our help and support. They are a hard-working decent family who contribute to society and don't ask for anything.
"The government asylum system is a disgrace. They are allowing people with no claim or right to be here to remain while sending innocent people back to a tyrant and torturer like Mugabe."
The Home Office said their policy had not changed. But out of "respect and courtesy" for the two judges who had commented on the issue "we feel it is appropriate not to enforce the return of failed asylum seekers prior to the court hearing on August 4 when we hope the issue can be fully resolved."
Effectively in limbo, Miss McMaster does not have a passport, cannot study and is not allowed to work.
If she returned to Zimbabwe, as she is white and of voting age, she would automatically be assumed to vote for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change and could be conscripted into the Army, where there have been widespread allegations of rape and abuse.
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