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'Send me home to Iran... I can't stand Manchester anymore': Iranian immigrant BEGS to be kicked out of UK after handing himself in to police - because he's fed up of the city's 'rudeness and violence'*
By Alisha Rouse For The Daily Mail and Lucy Crossley for MailOnline
02:02 24 Sep 2015, updated 17:57 24 Sep 2015
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Arash Aria, 25, walked into police station and demanded deportation
Said he's been living illegally in the UK for ten years - and has had enough
In fact he has indefinite leave to remain - and was let go*
An Iranian migrant walked into a police station and demanded to be deported – because he’d ‘had enough’ of Manchester.
Arash Aria, 25, said he was desperate to leave because of the ‘rudeness and violence’ in the city.
Handing himself in at a police station, he told officers he had been in the UK illegally for ten years. But he was released two hours later after immigration officials found he had indefinite leave to be in the UK.
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Take me home: Iranian born Arash Aria who walked into a Greater Manchester police station and demanded to be deported has said he did so because he was 'fed up' with living in Manchester.
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No 'illegal' after all: Mr Aria told officers he was in the UK illegally , but officials found he had indefinite leave to remain
Greater Manchester Police later wrote about the ‘strange incident’ on Twitter, saying an ‘angry and agitated’ Mr Aria would now have to ‘find his own way home’.
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Explaining his actions last night, the former waiter said he was struggling to find work and could not ‘achieve his dreams’ in his adopted city – where he lives in a tower block.
He said: ‘The people of Manchester have not been welcoming. It’s words, violence... many things. I try to ignore people but I’m fed up now. I don’t get the respect I should here.
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Is this that bad? Mr Aria's Home, a flat at Lamppost Court in central Manchester
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Mr Aria told police he had not been given the 'respect he deserves' in his adopted home town in England
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Posing up a storm: The 25-year-old ex-hospitality worker is a prolific user of social media
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Had enough: Arash Aria asked to be deported from Manchester (above) to his home nation of Iran
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Mr Aria, 25, said he was desperate to leave because of the ‘rudeness and violence’ in the city
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Mr Aria said he had 'had enough' of the city where he has lived for the last decade
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Mr Aria is originally from the city of Shiraz (pictured), which is located in the south west of Iran
‘I try to be friendly and polite. But they just laugh at me because I am foreign and look at me strangely.’
He added: ‘I used to work as a waiter and a barman but now people won’t give me shifts – for no reason.
‘I am on benefits but I don’t want that. Everyone wants to work, to have a dream but I can’t achieve my dreams here.
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Handing himself in at a police station, he told officers he had been in the UK illegally for ten years
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But he was released two hours later after immigration officials found he had indefinite leave to be in the UK
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Mr Aria said he wanted to return to his home city of Shiraz, in south-west Iran, where he will stay with his family*
MANCHESTER, UK
Location: North west England, close to the Pennines
Population:*514,417
Earliest settlement: The Roman fort of Mamucium, established in around 79AD*
Known for: Being the world's first industrialised city, the 'Madchester' music scene, the Manchester Ship Canal
Weather: Manchester enjoys mild summers and cool winters. The July average temperature is 20.6C, and in winter the temperature dips to one or two degrees. The city's average annual rainfall is 31.76ins.
Sports teams: Football rivals Manchester United and Manchester City, who both play in the Premier League. Lancashire Cricket Club. Manchester also boasts the National Cycling Centre and hosted the Commonwealth Games in 2002.
Famous figures: Singers Noel and Liam Gallagher, artist LS Lowry, actor Sir Ian McKellen, former British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst,*physicist and Nobel laureate J. J. Thomson
SHIRAZ, IRAN
Location: South west Iran, on the*on the Roodkhaneye Khoshk
Population:*1,455,073
Earliest settlement: The first reference to the city was found on clay tablets dated to 2000BC
Known for: One of the oldest cities of ancient Persia, home to Iran's first solar power plant, the city's numerous gardens and fruit trees
Weather:*Summers in Shiraz are hot, with a July average high of 38.8C, although winters tend to be far cooler, with temperatures often dipping below freezing. Average yearly rainfall is around 12ins.
Sports teams:*Football clubs Bargh Shiraz, who play in the Azadegan League and Moqavemat Sepasi, who play in the Iranian Premier League. Basketball club Louleh a.s. Siraz BC who compete in the Iranian Basketball Super League
Famous figures: Valerie Jarrett - an advisor to US President Obama,*Islamic philosopher Mulla Sadra, poets Saadi, Hafez, and Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, artist Shirazeh Houshiary, singer and model Tooji - who represented Norway in the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest
‘I want to get a good job, save money and do something big – be somebody.’
Mr Aria said he wanted to return to his home city of Shiraz, in south-west Iran, where he will stay with his family. ‘I am just waiting for my passport to come through and then I will book my flights and start my life out there,’ he told The Daily Telegraph.
But rather than cause upset in Manchester, several locals gave their support to the Iranian.*
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The incident was revealed in a series of tweets from Greater Manchester Police's city centre account
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Greater Manchester Police described the episode as 'strange' while tweeting about the incident
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Police said Mr Aria was arrested after shouting at staff and on suspicion of an immigration offence but later released from custody without charge
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In an update later, officers tweeted: 'Man arrested demanding deportation (fed up after 10 yrs in Manchester) may have to find own way home; was released after immigration liaison'
One user joked on Twitter that ‘we’ve all been there’, while another quipped: ‘Ten years in Manchester? Never mind deportation – give the man a medal’.
According to the Office for National Statistics, some 83,000 Iranians lived in the UK in 2011 – up from 42,000 in 2001, with 3,500 of those living in the north-west.
Police said Mr Aria was arrested after shouting at staff and on suspicion of an immigration offence but later released from custody without charge.
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But rather than cause upset in Manchester, several locals gave their support to the Iranian, with one person joking 'give that man a medal!'
Another Twitter user suggested Mr Aria may have been a frustrated Manchester United fan
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Many Twitter users replied to the GMP tweet to joke about Mr Aria's desire to leave the city
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Others joked that perhaps Mr Aria had got fed up with the weather in Manchester
One Twitter user suggested Mr Aria should move to Birmingham instead
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