Nigel and Pearl Karim and children, Calvin, 11, and Crystal, 13, of Barkerhouse Road, have lived in Nelson since 2002. They came to the area after fleeing from Karachi, where they were threatened with persecution for being practising Christians in a Muslim country.
The family were previously threatened with deportation in May this year when immigration officials took them to Yarleswood detention centre in Bedfordshire. On that occasion it emerged important paperwork intended for the Home Office had been lost.
All was silent until Friday when a letter from the Home Office arrived and they were told by their solicitor the case had been rejected and they had no right of appeal.
Devastated at the decision the family were then incensed to discover the Home Office did not believe their evidence was genuine.
The official letter said: "We are aware that there is a high level of corruption in Pakistan and it is possible to obtain many types of fraudulent documents or documents that are fraudulently authenticated by a bona fide stamp of authority."
Another excerpt said it would not be difficult to have newspaper articles published depicting certain situations or a prosecution.
It ended by inviting the family to apply to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) for money to help fund their relocation to Pakistan.
Pearl said: "I ask why me? Why is this family being singled out? They are just kicking us about like a football and the Home Office want us to get out by hook or by crook.
"I say make use of me, let me work, don't offer me money. They give money to every Tom, Dick and Harry using and abusing the system, but I want to work."
Nigel agreed, he said: "The IOM sends people home voluntarily if they want to go and people can apply for £3,000 a head to help them move. That could mean £12,000 for this family.
"But I came here for the safety of my family. If they gave me £10,000 per person to go back I wouldn't do it. We are not here for economic reasons. What if we were to go back and something happened to my family?"
Despite the fact the family have been in the country for four years the letter also told the Karims that meeting friends and undertaking voluntary work wasn't advisable as they may be forced to leave the country at short notice.
"My children have to go to school," said Pearl. "But they don't sit in one corner and say 'don't come near us, we are asylum seekers'.
"The children were very little when they came. They have had their eyes opened and started to learn about life in this country.
"What these people don't realise is that we do not have a home. We are Christians and in Pakistan that means we are second class Asians, no matter how qualified we are."
Nigel said the family's solicitor was a planning a judicial review.
He said: "I told the solicitor that we have done our job and sent through all our evidence. I said 'your job starts now'.
"All this time we have been giving our evidence to the Home Office and now our solicitor's job is to challenge them. If the Home Office is saying our country is corrupt and our documents are not good enough, we want them to prove it to us."
MP Gordon Prentice acknowledged the outlook wasn't good with every legal mode of appeal now exhausted.
The family went to see him at his surgery at the weekend, and following that he sent a letter to John Reid asking him to excercise his discretion and let them stay.
"This is a last resort for the family as all appeals have been exhausted and there is no further appeal that can be legally made," he said.
"I have known the Karims for some years now and they have been battling moves to deport them and I have supported them," said Mr Prentice.
"They are well integrated, they have children here and they are a part and parcel of the local community. The school has spoken vociferously on their behalf and petitions have been given to me and passed on. The Catholic Church and clerics have been to see me and there is just a huge amount of goodwill there for them and I recognise that.
"I am going to do my best for my constituents so we shall wait and see what happens. I have asked the speaker for a debate in the Commons and if I do get a debate then I will speak about the plight of Christians in Pakistan."
In light of this most recent development a major effort has been launched by friends and supporters of the Karims.
Mr Brendan Conboy, Calvin and Crystal's headteacher at Fisher-More RC High School, said the school and church community was desperate to help the family in any way possible.
Many people have written to the Home Secretary as well as Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the head of the Catholic Church in England.
Holy Saviour Church, Nelson, has also set up a prayer appeal on its website to raise awareness of the family's situation.
The family has urged anyone willing to help to visit the website and write to the Home Office.
Pearl said: "I think the more people that get involved the faster the message will get across to the relevant people. That is what we want, more people to to know about our situation and what the Home Office is trying to do to us."
For more information people should visit www.holysaviour.org.uk
The Home Office would not comment.