A fearful United Kingdom-born actor Ace Ruele Aristotles is slamming the Home Office for its plans to forcibly deport him to Jamaica, ripping him from his family and successful career in the process.

Ruele, in an interview with The Independent, said he has only ever visited Jamaica twice as a child and has three sons in London, where he’s lived all his life. He further argued the decision has made him effectively stateless as while being Jamaican by descent, he does not hold citizenship from the island.

The 33-year-old, with film credits in Eastenders, The Legend of Tarzan and New Blood, was born in 1988 in London to a Jamaican mother.

According to Ruele, his mother did not have British citizenship at the time, however, they were both subsequently given indefinite leave to remain.

This all changed in 2008, when aged 19, he was convicted of several offences including robbery and jailed for three years.

Upon his release in 2011, Ruele told The Independent he spent five months in an immigration detention centre, successfully challenging a deportation order at the last minute.

Against his new acting career, his status was changed to limited leave to remain in 2016, a prerogative of the UK government when someone is convicted of a crime. Ever since, the Briton explained, his long battle to stay where he has rightfully called home for decades began.

“I feel like I am being punished twice for a mistake I made years ago,” he told The Independent.

“I take responsibility for my actions but, at the end of the day, I’ve served my time, have never reoffended and I’m not a threat to society.”

The actor said he fought tooth-and-nail to have the decision to downgrade overturned at a tribunal, adding that it was initially successful.

“[T]he immigration judge ruled in his favour, acknowledging his stable employment and strong family ties, which the Home Office did not dispute,” the report indicated.

The victory was short-lived, however, as the UK government appealed the ruling and another judge overturned the original decision—claiming that despite being a successful actor, Ruele had a “financial incentive” to re-offend and hadn’t demonstrated family ties.

Under current arrangements, Reuel’s Limited Leave to Remain is temporary and has to be renewed every 30 months, costing £2,389 each time.

The Londoner contended that in recent years, he received a letter from the Home Office, urging him to return to Jamaica.

“Why should I pay every 30 months for limited leave to remain in the country I was born in and, if I don’t, be faced with removal? I didn’t immigrate from another country, I can’t go anywhere else,” Aristotles, who neither owns a British nor Jamaican passport, said.

Ruele, who is currently working in the upcoming Marvel film, Eternals, alongside Angelina Jolie and Richard Madden, said he’s British by birth and won’t be convinced otherwise.

“Despite what I’ve been told, I never ever thought I was Jamaican. I always thought I was British,” he told The Independent. “I could’ve been used as an example of someone who has turned their life around after going through the criminal justice system – instead the Home Office is harassing me.”

For their part, a Home Office representative, referring to the name they have on file, said Ace Kentake’s limited leave to remain allows him to stay and work in the UK.

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