Nigerian-born Boxer Who Fought For England, Faces Deportation For Illegal Immigration

29-year-old Bilal Fawaz, a tip top level boxer who has battled for England six times is confronting being expelled to Nigeria.

Fawaz was kept at the Tinsley House Immigration Center at Gatwick Airport in West Sussex on November 29. The boxer, who has sought England six times and was the 2012 ABA light-middleweight champion, came to England when he was 14.

Conveyed to the UK illicitly by an uncle, he was told his dad would arrive soon, however the man never turned up. Fawaz, who calls himself Kelvin, was dealt with 'like a slave' before he fled from the home he was living in and was taken into mind.

Presently wedded to an English lady, the boxing wonder experienced a turbulent period including drug groups, getting shot once and wounded a revealed 25 times.

Nonetheless, he turned his life around in the wake of taking up enclosing 2011 and has ascended through the positions to end up noticeably one of Britain's best beginner boxers — as of now positioned the third best middleweight in England.

In any case, the Home Office has rejected his application to stay in the UK and proclaimed his marriage to a British national void. The boxing champ said he was presently confronting being ousted to Nigeria, some place he has not been since he was sneaked out of the nation by his uncle as a youngster.

He stated: "I'm permitted to box for England yet I'm not permitted to remain in England. I've spent over portion of my life here — I went to class here, I lived here, I've boxed for England six times and never lost.

I am a national champion — in 2014 I even boxed for England against Nigeria, the nation they need to oust me to." The boxer says he is in fact 'stateless,' as his folks were Lebanese settlers to Nigeria, and they themselves didn't have Nigerian citizenship. .

His mom is dead and he says he had "no thought" where his dad is. He included: "I have no other family to backpedal to, I don't know anybody in Nigeria or anything about it — all I know is here."

Work MP McDonnell and England Boxing have spoke to the experts for the boxer's benefit, yet without progress.