Canada Border Services Agency: Trouble is, Jonathan Nicola, a 6-foot-9 Grade 11 student at Catholic Central High School in Windsor, has been posing as a 17-year-old at the school since he arrived in Canada from South Sudan last fall, according to officials, according to Hamilton Spectator. And now the "teenage" basketball player faces being bounced from Canada following his arrest by Canada Border Services Agency officers earlier this month. He actually 29. The CBSA alleges Nicola "misrepresented material facts on his application" to study in Canada, and that he contravened the Immigration Refugee Protection Act. Nicola was on the Catholic Central Comets roster for the provincial championship tournament last month, where his team lost to Nekkers and his team from Pine Ridge Secondary School. "If you saw his face, he wasn't 17," Nekkers said. "After the game, he sitting on the bench as a bunch of us walk by; we get past him, and I'm like, 'Did you look at his face Does anybody think he 17 years old '" Nicola arrived at Pearson International Airport on Nov. 23, and was issued a student visa to study in Windsor through January 2017, according to Canadian officials. Nicola date of birth was determined to be Nov. 1, 1986, following his application for a United States visitor visa," said Pape, explaining why Nicola has been deemed "inadmissible" to Canada on grounds of misrepresentation. His passport — and his application for a student visa — indicated he was born on Nov. 25, 1998, said Anna Pape, spokesperson for the Immigration and Refugee Board, which handles Nicola detention reviews and admissibility hearing. "Mr.
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