The Iranian migrant who walked into a Manchester police station and begged to be deported may be stuck in the UK for a while longer because he hasn't got a passport to get back to his home country.

Arash Aria, 25, who said he was desperate to leave because of the ‘rudeness and violence’ in the city, can't actually return home because his Iranian passport has expired.

He says he is in limbo waiting to be sent a new one, but it has now emerged the Iranian Embassy in London has no record of his application.

On Monday Mr Aria handed himself in at a police station where 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 country.

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.

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’.

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

Mr Aria told police he had not been given the 'respect he deserves' in his adopted home town in England

Posing up a storm: The former waiter said he could not ‘achieve his dreams’ in Manchester

Posing up a storm: The 25-year-old ex-hospitality worker is a prolific user of social media

Racism claims: The Iranian-born man said people in Manchester mocked him for being foreign

Had enough: Arash Aria asked to be deported from Manchester (above) to his home nation of Iran

Mr Aria, 25, said he was desperate to leave because of the ‘rudeness and violence’ in the city

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.

Lies: Handing himself in at a police station, he told officers he had been in the UK illegally for ten years

Mr Aria said he wanted to return to his home city of Shiraz, in south-west Iran, where he will stay with his family

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‘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.

However, a spokesman for the Iranian Embassy in London said it had no knowledge of Mr Aria's application.

He told the Daily Telegraph that Mr Aria would have to be interviewed before a decision could be made about allowing him to return to the country but said the embassy would offer consular assistance for him to do so if he got in touch.

Mr Aria would be issued with a valid passport, the embassy said, but it is unclear how long this will take.

Rather than cause upset in Manchester, several locals gave their support to the Iranian.

The incident was revealed in a series of tweets from Greater Manchester Police's city centre account

Greater Manchester Police described the episode as 'strange' while tweeting about the incident

Police said Mr Aria was arrested after shouting at staff and on suspicion of an immigration offence but later released from custody without charge

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.

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

Many Twitter users replied to the GMP tweet to joke about Mr Aria's desire to leave the city

Others joked that perhaps Mr Aria had got fed up with the weather in Manchester