A BELARUSSIAN mum was threatened with deportation in error, it has emerged.

Volha Merry, known as Olya, applied for residency in the UK in 2015 but her request was rejected by the Home Office.

She was ordered to leave her home in Coatbridge, where she has set up with her husband, Derek, and two-year-old daughter Milana.

Now it has been revealed the deportation order was a Home Office blunder - and Olya may now stay with her family.

The case was paused and reviewed following the intervention of local MP Hugh Gaffney.

In a letter to Hugh Gaffney, immigration minister Caroline Noakes writes: “Mrs Merry applied for permission to appeal the Upper Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber on 10 January 2018 and 8 March 2018; both applications were refused.

“Following this refused application, Mrs Merry was served with an enforcement notice, advising her of the liability to removal from the UK on 4 April.

"The Home Office apologises for issuing this notice in error; it will now be withdrawn and the reporting conditions set upon Mrs Merry will be cancelled.”

More than 27,000 people signed a petition to stop Olya's deportation.

She had applied for residency in the UK in 2015 but her request was rejected by the Home Office despite two years of appeals.

Hours before she was due to report to an immigration centre last month, she was granted a reprieve.

Labour MP for Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill Hugh Gaffney said: “The important thing is that this Coatbridge family will not be broken up, however this error suggests a horrifying level of either incompetence or indifference in the Home Office.

“This family chose to make Coatbridge their home.

"While it is wonderful news that they will remain together, something is clearly rotten in the Home Office.

“I have tabled questions to the Immigration minister asking for a review to be conducted on how many of these bogus notices have been issued.

“Sajid Javid clearly has his work cut out changing the culture of the Home Office - a culture of fear and hostility created by the Prime Minister.”