Jason Voros did enough at Hove yesterday to suggest he could emerge as a worthy successor to Sussex's other left-armer with the same name.

But the 27-year-old needs bureaucrats in Budapest to get their finger out first if he is to have an opportunity of emulating fellow southpaw Jason Lewry and breaking into the Sussex side as a late developer.

Voros, who has a Hungarian father, was due to become available for county action on May 1 as an EU qualified player when Hungary joined the European Union.

But the Hungarian passport he applied for last November still hasn't been processed and Voros has only been able to play against Loughborough UCCE this week as an overseas player because Murray Goodwin and Mushtaq Ahmed have been rested.

Director of Cricket Peter Moores said: "There is a big log jam caused by Hungary's entry into the EU. It's not as if you can phone up and ask where you are in the process.

"There is a compulsory three-month investigation period to check all new applications and documentation has had to come from Australia, where Jason lived until three years ago, which also takes time.

"He can't play first-class cricket until his passport arrives although we could register him as a replacement overseas player.

"But we signed him as an EU-qualified cricketer because we thought his passport would be here in February.

"It's very frustrating for Jason, but the best thing for him at the moment is to develop his cricket with us, commit to what we are getting him to do in terms of improving his game and hopefully his passport will come through soon."

Voros would be forgiven for thinking the fates were conspiring against him as he tries to make a career in the English game.

Sussex were on the verge of signing him in 2001 until it emerged that having English grandparents only entitled him to an ancestry visa and not an English passport.

Having played league cricket in Yorkshire since then he becomes qualified by residency in another two years, but his contract with Sussex expires at the end of this season so time is running out.

Yesterday he performed like someone desperate to make the most of an opportunity just in case there aren't too many more. He finished with 4-40 from 14.5 overs as Sussex bowled out Loughborough for 201 on the second day of the three-day match.

Voros had broken through on the first day when James Adams, who is on Hampshire's books, was beaten for pace and lost his middle stump.

Yesterday he had nightwatchman George Walker caught on the drive in his first spell and returned after lunch to end an eighth wicket stand of 37 - the joint-highest of the innings - by removing Richard Wilkinson and then David Wigley three overs later. Like Walker before them, both were caught behind nicking deliveries shaped away from them at decent pace.

"This has been a good opportunity for Jason to have a proper run-out and I thought he did well," added Moores.

"He's desperate to show us he has a future in county cricket. He's talented, there's no doubt about that, but it's how he packages it which is the key."

It was a decent workout for all the Sussex bowlers. James Kirtley re-acquainted himself with the Hove slope for the first time in nearly ten months and took the wicket of opener Richard Clinton with a ball which kept low.

Off-spinner Mark Davis's two victims included Horsham's Chris Nash, who is trying to develop as an all-rounder after playing one Championship game for Sussex in 2002, while Voros rounded things off when his direct hit ran out Monty Panesar.

Sussex had a first innings lead of 190 but opted to give their batsmen further opportunities rather than enforce the follow-on.

By the close they had extended that advantage to 279 for the loss of three wickets. Michael Yardy fell leg before to medium-pacer Richard Wilkinson while Tony Cottey and Tim Ambrose, who were both were out cheaply in the first innings missed out again when they fell in quick succession to slow left-armer Monty Panesar Montgomerie completed his second half-century of the season on the final day this morning.

But Sussex lost all-rounder Carl Hopkinson for 13 as the county headed towards a declaration.