An Angolan youth who has been in the Netherlands since he was 10 and now faces deportation is likely to be offered a student visa, Nos television reports.

Mauro Manuel, who has lived with a foster family in Limburg since he arrived here alone in 2003, is at the centre of a media and political campaign to win him permanent residency.
Sources have told Nos television immigration minister Gerd Leers is poised to offer Manuel a student visa. This would mean he could continue his education in the Netherlands but does not set a precedent for other youngsters in the same position.
Mauro is currently following vocational training at an mbo college.
On Tuesday, Labour and the ChristenUnie introduced draft legislation into parliament which would give young asylum seekers the right to stay in the Netherlands after eight years