An illegal migrant has begged the Home Office to send him back to Bangladesh after becoming a convicted criminal.
My Anwar, 38, first asked the Home Office to deport him early this year.
However, GB News understands that eight months on, he is still homeless on the streets of Southend.
Anwar arrived legally in the UK on a student visa back in 2013, but overstayed when it ended.
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For around a decade, Anwar has been in the UK illegally.
With no legal right to work, Anwar applied for right to remain, but was refused in 2021.
Early this year, with his bank account frozen, he rang the Voluntary Return Service (VRS), asking them to send him home.
The Home Office said he needed to renew his passport, but he didn’t have the money to do so.
He was told someone from the Home Office would call him back, but he wasn't helped.
Anwar is then understood to have started shoplifting out of desperation.
In August, he was convicted and given six months probation.
Turning to the Citizens Advice Bureau (Cab) in Southend, case worker Sonia Wood stepped in to help.
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She was told by the Home Office that because he now had a conviction, Anwar had to use the Facilitated Return Scheme instead.
However, they said that as Anwar had not been jailed, he wasn’t eligible, and sent him and the Cab back to the VRS.
GB News understands that months later, he is still in the UK.
Speaking on the matter to GB News' Martin Daubney, former Tory MP Anna Firth, who presided over the constituency of Southend, exclaimed: "I literally couldn't believe my eyes as I read a catologue of errors.
"Frankly, I had to get involved because this has just to be sorted out. What this shows us is a Home Office that's drifting, it's in denial, and it's dysfunctional.
"You literally couldn't make it up."
The ex-Parliamentarian said that "Essex residents have had enough", having experienced "more than its fair-share of Home Office incompetence".
Ms Firth further declared that if the department "didn't get their act together", she proposed starting a crowdfunding page.
She said: "In no time, we'll get that money together, and we'll escort this gentleman, who wants to go to an airport, and we will wave him off and that is his only hope of a better future.
"He's got no hope here now, he doesn't want to be here. Let's help him get back to Bangladesh."
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