Homeless migrant BEGS Home Office to deport him back to family in Bangladesh for past 6 months

But despite his efforts, as well as those of Citizen’s Advice and politicians, the migrant remains stranded on the streets of Southend, Essex.

Sitting down with the People's Channel, he said:“Who would love to stay in the streets when they can live in their house in Bangladesh? If you tell me my flight ready? I can go now. I want to go now. I'm ready to go. I have nothing, no one to worry here. I got everything back home.”

The Home Office advertises a Voluntary Returns Service for people who reside in Britain illegally who wish to return to their home countries.

While Labour says it has deported almost 50,000 people since coming to power in July 2024, the man first asked for help to leave the UK back in March.

He was told he required an up-to-date passport, but he was without a home or money so could not renew it. The man claims the Home Office failed to reply to his messages.

Desperate for cash, the migrant turned to shoplifting, was prosecuted and received a criminal record.

The migrant said of the Home Office: "Every time they say they are working on my case and they can sort my case out... Still I'm in front of you. And last time they said they don't have any application.”

When the Citizen’s Advice Bureau got involved in September, they were told Mr A did not qualify for the original scheme because of his criminal conviction, and pointed to the Facilitated Return Scheme, for foreign national offenders.

However, because he did not go to jail, the migrant was sent back to the first scheme.

A Home Office spokesman told GB News: “"At the time he applied to the voluntary returns service he had an outstanding police investigation. One including a shoplifting conviction back in August. All these police matters have since been resolved and he is now free to apply for the voluntary service again. "

The man and Citizen’s Advice are mystified by the Government's response, given they have logged multiple calls to the Home Office in the last few months.

He said: “I came to Anglia Ruskin University in 2013, and my subject was International Business Management. And fortunately, I couldn't finish my study.”

Having missed the required grades to continue with the course, the man's cousin appealed for him stay, but all attempts to obtain the right to remain failed in 2021.

He says he became “broken", adding: "I moved to Southend on a job purpose. Someone allowed me to give a place to live if I worked for them in cash in hand in a pizza shop. He used to provide me food and the place to live. And we had a deal that, like, he will pay me some amount on top in cash in in my hand as well.”

“He started bullying me, blaming me for so many things, and told me to leave.

Asked why his family in Bangladesh cannot pay for a plane ticket home, the migrant said they cannot afford it, saying: “My dad is a heart patient. He had a stroke because of me. Being in this kind of situation.”

Anna Firth, former MP for Southend West and Leigh, said:“This is an absolutely shocking situation and you really couldn’t make it up. Here we have an individual who is overstaying, who accepts that, who wants to go home. He has followed all the steps he was told to follow, yet the system has let both him and the taxpayer down. This prompts a serious question: if someone who is actively trying to leave gets trapped like this, how many others are stuck in the same bureaucratic black hole?”

Current Labour MP David Burton-Sampson’s office are also involved in trying to send the man home.

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