Mojgan Shamsalipoor granted three-month bridging visa allowing her to stay in Australia.

An Iranian asylum seeker who was almost forced back into immigration detention has been granted a temporary lifeline to allow her to stay in Australia.

Mojgan Shamsalipoor, 23, has been living in limbo with her visa set to expire on Tuesday, March 21.

But in a meeting with immigration officials today, Ms Shamsalipoor was granted a new three-month bridging visa, which allows her to live and work in the community.

This is the second time her visa has been renewed since she was released from immigration detention in September last year.

“I’m really happy to have another three months, but it’s not a great result as I’m still in limbo,” she said.

“I want to feel freedom. I have never had freedom — not in Iran, not in Australia.

“I have never experienced freedom.”

Ms Shamsalipoor’s former school teacher and mentor, Jessica Walker, said not only was she allowed to remain in Brisbane, she was told there could be a possibility of “lifting the bar so she can apply for a partner visa”.

She arrived in Australia via Christmas Island in 2012 as a teenager. She applied for refugee status and while it was processed she was allowed out into community detention in Brisbane.

It was there she met her future husband, Milad Jafari, at a youth camp.

However, in 2015 the Refugee Review Tribunal decided that Ms Shamsalipoor’s case for asylum was not legitimate and she was taken back into detention in Brisbane but was permitted to attend school.

Ms Walker said Ms Shamsalipoor was relieved as she emerged from the meeting, clutching documents for her new bridging visa.

“She has another three months’ reprieve and is looking forward to Persian New Year, [which begins next week], when she can celebrate with family and friends,” Ms Walker said.

Meeting ‘positive’ but ‘not enough’

Ms Shamsalipoor’s Darwin-based lawyer, Kevin Kadirgamar, said he was told the meeting had a “positive vibe in the room” and that the immigration officer indicated the department was looking at granting a “more substantive visa — for instance a tourist visa — which would allow her to apply for a permanent partner visa without leaving Australia”.

Ms Walker said it was a positive meeting but it was not enough.

“Mojgan deserves the security to live her life without this threat [of deportation or detention] hanging over her,” she said.

Mr Jafari said they were both relieved with the outcome.

“We are relieved that at least we have three more months,” he said.

“But we still have the constant fear that something worse may still come.

“I beg Minister [Peter] Dutton to end this trauma and give us our life back so we can call Australia home.”

Earlier in the day, Ms Shamsalipoor had braced for the worst. Writing on the support page of her Change.org petition, she said:

“I’m so nervous they’re going to take me back into detention or put pressure on me to get onto a plane, back to hell in Iran. My husband and I are shaking, terrified to learn my fate,” she said on the site.

Since Ms Shamsalipoor’s story, which aired on Australian Story on Monday night, there has been a groundswell of public support, including letters to Mr Dutton and a Change.org petition which has so far attracted 78,000 signatures.

Ms Shamsalipoor was part of a group of people released into the community in September who Mr Dutton said were “illegal maritime arrivals”.

“They are not refugees and are expected to return to their countries of origin. They will not have access to permanent stay visas,” a statement from the office of Mr Dutton said at the time.

Mr Dutton’s office has been contacted for comment.

This post originally appeared on ABC News.