MOTHER-to-be Nicola Allka faces having her baby on a remote farm in Albania because her husband is likely to be deported.

Nicola, 18, says she cannot face going through her pregnancy without him and wants him to be there when their baby is born.

Her 24-year-old husband Feim entered Britain illegally in the back of a lorry in May 1999 and immediately applied for asylum on the grounds that he feared persecution by the Kosovo Liberation Army.

His application and subsequent appeals were turned down and he has now been told he must leave the country within a month.

If he fails to go voluntarily he will be deported four weeks after that deadline.

"The Home Office believes our marriage is a sham, but it isn't," she said. "We love each other and we want to make a life together as a family."

A letter announcing the latest rejection said: "The applicant's marriage appears to have been contracted at a time when both he and his wife thought the applicant was likely to return to Kosovo." Feim received it on Friday.

Nicola is now desperate to show them they are wrong.

The couple met at the Eros nightclub, married in September at Swindon Register Office and she is now 12 weeks pregnant.

She said: "It was a honeymoon baby. We didn't intend for it to happen but it did."

Feim now hopes the Home Office will reconsider his case in the light of Human Rights legislation because he will be the father of a British child.

"We haven't even got our marriage certificate because it's with the immigration people," said Nicola.

The couple live in a one-bedroom flat in Cambria Bridge Road and she says Feim is working 10 hour days as a packer for a company in Cirencester. It also takes him an hour to travel to and from work. Nicola has a job in telemarketing at Book Club Associates.

Feim's parents live on a farm in Albania and do not speak English.

"I am scared of having to go out there," said Nicola. "We shall have no home and no jobs, I shan't be able to speak the language and there will be no facilities for our baby. I don't think Feim's family are in a position to help us. They have no money.

"I really don't want to go, but I do want to be with Feim and he wants to be with me."

Her husband came to Britain in a lorry and was dropped off near Swindon. When he applied for asylum he was granted a temporary work permit.

"His English wasn't good and he found it hard to settle into a job, but he's now doing OK," said Nicole.

"I fell for him as soon as we met at Eros There was something really romantic about him."

Her parents Stephen and Dawn Lynne live in Elm Park, Wootton Bassett and according to Nicola they are backing the couple all the way.

"All this has left me shaking. I was pretty shocked when she told us they were getting married. She's so young," said Mrs Lynne.

"But when we met Feim I felt he was honest and trustworthy. We have all taken to him, specially our little one."

Nicola has an older sister and two younger ones. The youngest will be two in February.

"He's like a brother to them," Mrs Lynne added.

"We have been in touch with our MP James Gray. He has said the best thing Nicola can do is stay here, have the baby and fight to get Feim over here again."

But they do not want to be separated when Nicola gives birth to their child.

A Home Office spokeswoman said: "We don't comment on individual asylum cases.

"People who come here and claim asylum have to go through a certain process and if they have had their application refused we cannot go into the circumstances of that refusal."