About 50 people gathered in Auckland to protest against Indian students being deported.

Time is running out for Indian students facing deportation as they plan a last-ditch protest in Auckland.

An estimated 150 students are set to be kicked out of New Zealand because their supporting visa documents were found to have been forged by agents in India.

The students have called for a reprieve and were planning to plead their case at a public meeting on Monday set to be attended by Deputy Prime Minister Bill English and list MP Parmjeet Parmar.

Chris McKeen Indian students are hoping the government will listen to their plea to be able to stay. They're planning a second protest on September 26, following this event (pictured) in Auckland on September 3.

Organiser of the protest Anu Kaloti, of the Migrant Workers Association, said some of the students could be deported within days.

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"There's a real urgency around this, until now we were very hopeful for that meeting with the Minister of Immigration but it hasn't happened. Time is not on the students' sides. It feels like now or never," Kaloti said.

RNZ Checkpoint Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce responds to the pleas of Indian students who wish to stay in New Zealand after the immigration agent they used in India committed fraud.

A protest earlier this month drew 50 people outside Parmar's Mt Roskill electorate office.

The students' case was raised in parliament last week and gained support from Labour, Green Party and New Zealand First.

They've also been backed by bishops and representatives from the Catholic Church and Anglican Church, as well as the Council of Trade Unions and others.

Chris McKeen Hafiz Syed is appealing to the government to let him stay in New Zealand as he faces deportation.

Kaloti said students had forked out tens of thousands of dollars to come here and study - and now their dreams of finding work here were shattered through no fault of their own.

She said the Indian agents who organised their visas were responsible for the fraudulent documents yet they had escaped punishment, with some still in business and promising more students the chance to come to New Zealand.

Some agents had closed and reopened in the name of another family member, she said.

"Whenever the students try to reach them they have changed phone numbers or email addresses."

Hafiz Syed, a 28-year-old who moved from India to Auckland to study computing was among the students to find out his supporting documents were faked.

His status was currently listed as being here unlawfully, so he could be deported at any moment.

It had created a "nightmare" past few weeks, he said.

"No machine made could calculate the pressure on my mind, it's very stressful, I can't put it into words," he said.

While Syed was trying to stay optimistic he too was concerned the government had so far ignored their requests for a meeting.

"We've been banging our heads for a couple of weeks, but they're still not responding to us."

A spokeswoman for Immigration Minister Michael Woodhouse said he had not ignored the students' request for a meeting.

She said it "simply was not possible to meet in the timeframe given".

"However, each individual case will be considered on its own merit and it would not be appropriate for the Minister to meet while the cases are still being considered."

The protest on Monday is outside Lynfield Community Church.

A petition to let the students stay has collected 600 signatures.