Single mother Wong Lai-fong, 26, is facing repatriation to the mainland even though her 22-month-old son can stay in Hong Kong legally.
Wong Lik-ki was born in Hong Kong in June 2000 while his mother was seeking the right to live in the SAR. Ms Wong is now appealing to the Government to allow her to stay on humanitarian grounds.
She first came to Hong Kong from Nanan city, Fujian province, to fight for the right of abode and rejoin her family in January 1998, when she found her life on the mainland as a self-supporting university student too hard.
However, she left the same month after being asked by immigration officers to return to the mainland, and missed the chance to benefit from the Court of Final Appeal's ruling on January 29, 1999, which was in favour of the abode seekers.
Ms Wong said it was during her trip that she met her now ex-boyfriend, who is a Hong Kong resident. They met again when she returned to Hong Kong on a two-way permit in October 1999 to continue her abode fight.
'Meeting him was the start of another nightmare. He left me after learning about my pregnancy in late 1999,' she said.