Illegal immigrant may have to stay as Home Office cannot prove he is Algerian

  An illegal immigrant who used a bogus passport to work at Wasabi might avoid deportation because civil servants cannot prove where he is from, a court heard. Karim Taleb, thought to be 37 and from Algerian, was jailed for seven months in 2004 after police caught him with a false French passport after he gained entry to the UK in 2000. He wasn’t deported because the Home Office could not persuade the Algerian government that he was ever a…