For six months the extremely tall international student had been attending a Windsor Ontario high school as a 17-year-old, in grade 11 at the school.
At over 2 metres tall (6’9”) Jonathan Nicola was also a star basketball player for the Catholic Central High School senior boys team towering above the other players.
It turns out, the man from South Sudan in Canada on a student visa is actually 29 years old.
The ruse was finally over when Nicola applied for a visitor visa to the US.
The Canadian Border Services agency compared fingerprints on file and discovered a match to an earlier application to enter the U.S. but with a much different and much earlier birthdate than on the passport he presented upon arriving in Canada last November.
It is illegal to make false statements when applying to stay in Canada and the man is being held in a Windsor detention centre for violating the Immigration Refugee Protection Act.
The Catholic Centre High School is saying little other than his papers and approval from Immigration Canada were in order at the time he began school.
Nicola has had one detention hearing and another is scheduled for April 26. In the meantime he is being held in detention as a precaution as he was deemed to be ” a flight risk”.
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