Home Office arrests two over fake asylum claims
The Home Office said the arrests followed a BBC undercover investigation that found advisers telling migrants to fake evidence for asylum claims.
- The Home Office arrested two individuals in London following a BBC investigation into immigration advisers helping asylum seekers make false LGBT claims.
- Last month BBC News revealed migrants were being instructed to obtain fake evidence, including supporting letters and photographs, to support asylum claims.
- Coordinated raids in east London were led by Immigration Enforcement's Criminal and Financial Investigations section, prompting Immigration Minister Mike Tapp to declare, "We'll make those arrests."
- Reform home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf argued Labour "failed to act," while Liberal Democrat Will Forster called for a "fair, controlled and efficient" asylum system.
- Conservative shadow home secretary Chris Philp argued arrests change nothing while incentives remain, while Green Party leader Zack Polanski cited "perverse incentives" from government "inconsistent policies.
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Two arrests made after asylum seekers told to 'pretend to be gay'
Two people have been arrested after an undercover investigation found some immigration advisers were allegedly telling asylum seekers to pretend to be gay. The investigation, by BBC News, found that migrants with expiring visas were allegedly told how to get fake evidence, such as supporting letters or photographs, to go with their asylum claims. It included footage secretly filmed at an event for LGBT asylum seekers, at which many of the people…
Two people arrested amid investigation into asylum seekers pretending to be gay to remain in Britain
Home Office immigration enforcement officers have arrested two people in east London following coordinated raids linked to an undercover report that alleged immigration advisers coaching asylum seekers to falsely claim they are gay.The Criminal and Financial Investigations unit led the operations, which resulted in the arrest of a woman in her late 40s suspected of unlawfully providing immigration services under section 91 of the Immigration and…
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