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A Canadian retiree says he’s been left with no choice other than to sell his house in Florida after being banned from the United States for what he believes was a long-buried bureaucratic snafu.

Mike Quinn, 70, of Niagara Falls, Ont., has spent the past two years trying to figure out why U.S. authorities dredged up a 15-year-old document as evidence he had once claimed to be a U.S. citizen.

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“If I can’t get this resolved in the next six months, I’m getting out of the States. Sell everything,” Quinn said. “I’m not asking for forgiveness. I didn’t do anything.”

The professional engineer spent 16 years working in the United States, although he always considered the Ontario border town home. He left the U.S. in 2008 but frequently visited or shopped there using his long-held Nexus trusted traveller card to get across the border.

Quinn estimates he crossed the border more than 100 times — including to spend time at the house he bought in Port St. Lucie, Fla., in 2010 — without any major problems.