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The identity of a man who has been held in immigration detention for almost a decade has finally been confirmed, paving the way for his deportation back to his native Cameroon.

Michael Mvogo came to Canada in 2005 using a fraudulent U.S. passport in the name of Andrea Jerome Walker. When he was convicted in 2006 in Toronto for carrying $10-worth of crack, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) tried to deport him but discovered his passport was bogus.

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Authorities were unable to remove the “Man with No Name” from Canada until they could verify who he was and where he was born.

The CBSA has now tracked down the necessary information, a spokeswoman said Monday.

“We can confirm that he is Michael Mvogo and his country of origin is Cameroon,” Antonella DiGirolamo wrote in an email.

‘We can confirm that he is Michael Mvogo’

According to a weekend report in the Toronto Star, a CBSA liaison officer travelled to rural Cameroon in March to try to track down proof of the man’s identity. The officer managed to get a copy of a birth certificate in the town of Mvengue.