By Joe Tidy, Sky News Reporter
A 19-year-old schoolgirl has been told she will not be deported to Mauritius today after a high-profile campaign to keep her with her family in London.
The deportation team was taking Yashika Bageerathi to Gatwick Airport when a telephone call asking she be returned to a detention centre was received.
It appears at present to be a temporary reprieve.
Miss Bageerathi came to the UK from Mauritius in 2011 on a tourist visa to escape domestic violence.
Yashika is being taken from Yarl's Wood Detention Centre Since applying for asylum, her application has been treated separately from her mother, brother and sister as she is considered an adult, and has been rejected.
A security team arrived at Yarl's Wood Detention Centre this morning and told her she would be put on a flight at 2pm.
The family's other applications are still being considered.
On Sunday, a protest march was held to the Home Office by dozens of school friends, teachers and neighbours.
An online petition by the students calling on Immigration Minister James Brokenshire and Home Secretary Theresa May to stop the deportation and allow the student to complete her A-levels collected nearly 23,000 signatures.
Model Cara Delevingne also made a plea on Twitter to Mrs May not to send the aspiring maths teacher back.
And on Monday, barristers took an injunction to the High Court asking for her to be allowed to at least finish her A Levels and be with her family, but the case was rejected.
But Yashika's school principal Lynne Dawes said the teenager told her she was on her way back to the centre.
Ms Dawes added that Miss Bageerathi's solicitors were told at a tribunal the order to remove the teenager had been "cancelled" although it is not clear what the next step is.
Before the deportation was halted she was terrified for the student, telling Sky News: "I have spoken to her this morning from the detention centre and she is scared.
"We are not being allowed to see her and are all very worried for her as she is completely on her own.
"We've written to Home Secretary and not heard anything back.
"We just want to halt this removal until Yashika can do her A-Levels and we want her to be kept with her family wherever that is."
A Home Office spokesman said: "The UK has a proud history of granting asylum to those who need it and we consider every application on its individual merits.
"We do not routinely comment on individual cases."
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