Alaa Eldin has been trying to escape the UK since last summer when he was evicted from a hotel in Leeds used by the Home Office for asylum seekers.
An illegal Channel migrant living under a rowing boat on a Kent beach is struggling to leave the country.
Alaa Eldin yesterday said: 'The police spot me and bring me back to my boat on the beach. Two months ago, I was stopped by them when I was trying to get on a lorry. The police put me in a cell for a day and then set me free.
On arrival, he told the Home Office he had run away from the Syrian civil war as a teenager and his return would mean a call-up to the army, where his life would be endangered. 'I thought the UK would be a good place to find work in the construction industry, I am a talented plasterer,' he said. 'There is nothing for me in Britain now,' he said as he looked down at the pink plastic women's sandals he wears in a hopeless attempt to stay warm as winds and rain lashes Dover
However, the going rate can run to more than £1,800 – and he added: 'Other migrants have left that way but I cannot raise that.'