'They know Britain is a soft country': The visa overstayers living under the radar

'They know Britain is a soft country': The visa overstayers living under the radar

No data has been collated for five-and-a-half years on the number of visa of overstayers in Britain. But the picture painted by community leaders and lawyers is stark.

'They Know Britain Is A Soft Country': The Visa Overstayers Living Under The Radar

He’s one of up to 400,000 visa overstayers in the UK, one lawyer we spoke to believes. It’s only an estimate because the Home Office has stopped collecting figures – which were unreliable in the first place. Britain is being laughed at, one man told us, “because they know it’s a soft country”. We meet Ramesh (not his real name) at a Gurdwara, a Sikh place of worship, where he goes for food and support. He insists he can’t return to India where h…