00:02Every day, Anna Rochefort lives in agonising pain.
00:07It's like acid is being poured into my bones 24-7.
00:12The 57-year-old has severe avascular necrosis, a rare condition which is killing her bones.
00:19Unable to walk for 10 years, the disease is now destroying her eyesight.
00:24Before it does, she wants to see her brother one last time.
00:29He's the only person I have in this whole world.
00:32The siblings were separated as young orphans in India, reconnecting when Anna was a teenager.
00:38She used to visit every year, but now she's too sick to travel.
00:43He just wants to come see me, but he just keeps saying he's going to do a runner.
00:49Three times in the past year, she's applied for a visa, offering a bond as security and to cover all
00:55his travel expenses.
00:56She also provided letters from her doctor and explained her brother plans to go back to his job, wife and
01:03son in India.
01:05Anna's husband says it's a race against time.
01:08Horrible thing to say. I don't want to say it because I don't want her to die.
01:14But she's on the slide.
01:19The Department of Home Affairs says it can't comment on individual cases, but that all visa applicants must genuinely intend
01:27to only stay in Australia temporarily and must satisfy the requirements of the Migration Act.
01:34For the Rochefords, a desperate plea.
01:37Let him come.
01:38At their eleventh hour.
01:40.
01:41.
01:45.
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