A Brisbane man, who has lived in Australia since he was one year old, has been told his deportation to South America is imminent.

The Australian Immigration Department wrote to Ricardo Bolvaran, 41, in August while he was an inmate at Brisbane Correctional Centre at Wacol, to inform him his residency visa had been cancelled.

Rachel Delucia with a photo of her defacto partner, Ricardo Bolvaran,

His partner of 24 years, Rachel Delucia, said Bolvaran had been transferred to the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre in Sydney.

Despite Australia being the only home he has ever known, Bolvaran will soon be sent to Chile after he signed deportation documents on Wednesday.