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Revealed: ‘baby boot migrant’ sailing across the Channel to the UK is actually a 25-year-old Iranian trying to date over 30 but was caught by his GRAY beard
- A migrant who claimed to be a child to stay in the UK is actually in his mid-20s
- Aria Ibrahimi, now believed to be 25, was taken in by Kent Council
- Ibrahimi, who is from Iran, arrived by boat in May 2020 and claimed 16 . to be
- A social worker said they thought he was in his late twenties and had a few gray hairs
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A migrant who came to the UK by boat claiming to be a child so he could stay is actually in his mid-twenties and even joined a dating group in his thirties before he was caught by his gray hair and stubble.
Aria Ibrahimi, who is now believed to be 25, impersonated a 16-year-old and was taken in by Kent County Council as a minor before social workers’ suspicions began to grow.
Ibrahimi, who is from Iran, arrived in the UK unaccompanied in May 2020 and claimed to be 16, which was not disputed by the Home Office.
Aria Ibrahimi, who is now believed to be 25, impersonated a 16-year-old and was taken in by Kent County Council as a minor before social workers’ suspicions began to grow
He is now facing deportation after testimony from social workers at an Interior Ministry hearing, The sun reports.
One said they thought he was in his late twenties or early thirties and noted that Ibrahim had “a few gray hairs.”
It was also said that his “features were set and without the soft features of a youth.”
He even joined dating groups for people aged 30 to 55 and a list of singles from 19 to 25 years old.
Aria Ibrahimi, holding a piece of paper with the logo of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI), a Kurdish nationalist group opposing the Iranian government
A social worker told the hearing that Ibrahimi visited university groups on social media and in a online chat he told someone his year of birth was 1997, adding ‘but here i am 2003’.
After the suspicions of the social workers came to light, Ibrahim was transferred to an adult housing unit of the Home Office in January 2021, at the risk of being deported.
He then filed for a judicial review, which was rejected by Supreme Court Justice Susan Kebede, who agreed that his date of birth was September 20, 1997.
Reviewers also pointed to a series of flaws in Ibrahim’s story of how he reached British shores.
Ibrahimi holding a sign protesting the execution in Iran outside the Iranian embassy in London
Ibrahim has spoken out against the hardline Islamic Iranian government.
One photo shows him holding a piece of paper bearing the logo of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI), a Kurdish nationalist group that opposes the Iranian regime.
The group’s mission is “to obtain Kurdish national rights within a federal and democratic Iran.”
Another photo shows him protesting the execution in Iran near the Iranian embassy in London.