THE desperate battle to save Nelson man Sam Wright from being deported back to America is set for the High Court.

His family have put together a final appeal to the court for an injunction preventing Sam from being deported.

If successful it will give him extra time to put together a case that would go before the courts, who would decide once and for all whether he should be deported.

If the injunction isn’t granted, and the Home Office do not step in and prevent the deportation, then Sam is scheduled to fly back to the States and return to his home town of Modesto, California, this evening.

Mum Rosaria said: “Sam has spent the time he has been detained in Doncaster working on the appeal and has faxed a 93-page document to the courts.

“We are walking on eggshells but are still hopeful Sam will be coming home.”

Sam arrived in the UK in 2009 on a visitors visa to help his mum who suffers from a chronic illness which causes pain all over her body.

But, despite repeated requests for a permanent visa, immigration officials rejected his application stating the relationship was not compassionate or compelling enough.

Rosaria said she had tidied Sam’s room at their home in Rowland Avenue, Nelson, in preparation for him coming home, while his friends had brought him a ticket for this weekend’s Beat Herder festival in the Ribble Valley.

Pendle MP Andrew Stephenson presented a petition signed by almost 1,000 people in the House of Commons earlier this week, calling on the Home Office to halt the deportation.

He said: “It is very much the last-chance saloon, we are hoping for a last-minute reprieve.

“The UK Border Agency delayed the deportation for one week last week to allow us to make final representation, so hopefully they will stop it now.”