Albania's new ambassador to Britain turns out to be illegal migrant

Albania's new ambassador to the UK, who will work with the Government to help stop the small boats crisis, sneaked into Britain illegally in the back of a lorry.

Uran Ferizi, 42, made a bogus asylum claim when he arrived in Calais in 1998, claiming to be Kosovan and giving a false date of birth, according to Daily Mail.

Mr Ferizi will act as a liaison between Albania and the UK governments to curb illegal migration. 

Multiple sources have confirmed Mr Ferizi arrived in the UK as an illegal migrant – without any identification documents when he came to Dover, falsely claiming to be fleeing the war in Kosovo.

He was allowed to stay while his case was assessed.

Public records show he married a British woman called Sarah Lennon in Hammersmith, West London, in May 2000.  

Based on this marriage, he was granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK three years later.

Despite never having worked in the diplomatic service, he was put forward for the prestigious position of ambassador by the Albanian government in June. Sources claim he has a close relationship with the country's socialist leadership.

According to his online CV, Mr Ferizi is a mathematician and computer scientist who studied at Oxford University and University College London. 

He was a financial analyst at JP Morgan in London between 2006 and 2008 before moving to the US to work as a scientific researcher at New York and Stanford, California, universities.