pennylessinindia

Very sad for the older person in question - not sure why you would have ever thought that taking a person on a visitor visa to any country would mean that they could stay any longer than for a visit. What were your long term plans, as said by others if she met the visitor criteria she surely should have shown she had something in SA to go back to. What has happened to her home in SA?
Sad as it all sounds, you surely can not really think it ok to put an older person on a plane to the UK without knowing she has any support. Sorry to be harsh but this sounds so in humane. Why not go back and appeal if possible but if not surely you will have to go back to SA and help her settle back there.
Does she want to go to the UK? If so come back with her for a while to help her settle. It will not be easy to to show that she is entitled to any accommodation as the shelter link shows
http://england.shelter.org.uk/get_ad...for_assistance
However being elderly she would be considered vulnerable and may get help

rosario

There are quite a number of British people returning to the Uk from South Africa, I personally know of several and through them of others. Some with funds some without. If she returns to the area she is from she should come with enough funds to last her her a while , apply to have her pension brought back up to date. The fact that she has a pension does indicate that she must have paid her national Insurance in the past. She can then apply for further help and will probably get it. Good Luck

michali

This situation sounds terrible! Surely there is some family member somewhere who could help, even if it is just to get your mother settled in? A sibling, a cousin, somebody? Even if she goes back to the UK, it will, as others have said, take time for her to get established with any benefits to which she is entitled. Even a younger person would find it so challenging to go back alone and get sorted out. Where would one start? I feel for you and your mother but, again, as others have said, what was the long term plan? Unless, there was an expectation that she could have remained in Australia.I do hope you get something sorted out. This must so stressful for you and your mother.