Petition calling for the "immediate deportation" of convicted Status fraudster Robert Martyn apparently circulating ? but it ignores warning from Immigration the case is on hold until all appeals run out.

Broadcast news reports said the document circulated about Hamilton yesterday and is expected to be submitted to the Minister of Home Affairs Randy Horton in a matter of weeks.

Martyn, 43, was found guilty in May of conspiring to fraudulently obtain his father's Bermudian status and by extension his own in early 2000 by assisting in the submission of false documents to the Department of Immigration.

But the petitioners question the legal basis upon which he is still entitled to a paycheque given the unanimous conviction and also why he has not been barred from practising law.

However, the Ministry made it clear some weeks ago that it is legally unable to move on the issue until Mr. Martyn's appeal ? filed by his legal team headed by Saul Froomkin QC ? has been heard.

Only if the conviction still stands at the appeal's conclusion will the Ministry then be able to step in.

As a result of having Bermudian status conferred upon him, prosecutors allege that the lawyer was able to avoid close to $500,000 in various expenses while he also succeeded in purchasing a $1.9 million home on Harrington Sound Road in Smith's which commands an ARV (Annual Rental Value) well below the minimum stipulated for non-Bermudians.

In the meantime, he continues to work at Westbury Limited owned by ailing Canadian billionaire Michael DeGroote.