Larice Rainnie says her life has changed drastically over the past few years.
The 72-year-old used to be a dedicated public servant, a horse rider and social person in her hometown of Perth.
Now she lives alone in Auckland, telling SBS News she leaves the house “just three times a week”.
“I don’t feel like I belong anywhere. Limbo,” she said.
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Larice was deported from Australia to New Zealand in late 2019, after her visa was cancelled over an 18-month jail sentence for a drug-related crime in Finland.
She’d moved to Australia in 1964 and lived in the country for the next 55 years of her life.