The 25-year-old, who trains at the Oldham Boxing and Personal Development Centre, was locked up last week at Dungavel immigration removal centre in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, and told he faces being returned to Lagos.
His wife Robyn, who is seven months pregnant, has started an online petition urging the Home Office to let her husband stay.
After returning to his homeland, he was sent a letter inviting him to return to the UK for recruitment.
After claiming to have passed written and physical tests, he applied to extend his visa so he could stay in Britain before enlisting.
The couple moved to Salford in July 2013.
But Victor was soon told that due to new guidelines, his application to join the Army had been refused.
Robyn and Victor applied for asylum in a bid to stay together and claim they were told by the Home Office they could get married pending the application.
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They assumed Victor’s UK residency would not be a problem.
After marrying in April last year, his asylum claim was refused in three months later.,
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The couple say the Home Office, in a letter to their solicitors, have told them they should move to Nigeria.
Robyn says they have spent £4,000 in legal fees after a number of failed appeals. Victor was most recently refused leave to stay in March.
In April, he spent two weeks in the immigration centre, but was released after an appeal.
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