IMMIGRATION
30 December 2004
Thousands of immigrants are staying in the UK by extending their visas year after year in a major immigration scam. Posing as a student has become a major back door entry into the UK, official figures reveal.
Tens of thousands of tourists are arriving in the UK, and then enrolling at bogus colleges in order to get a student visa to remain here. An investigation this year exposed 250 fake colleges which were operating as highly profitable immigration scams.
The figures were compiled in a report by MigrationWatch.
For example, 425 Jamaicans applied to enter the UK as students and government figures showed that there were 780 Jamaican students in the UK in total. Yet the number of Jamaicans given visa extensions totaled 13,220. The figures for Zimbabwe are 790, 2,850 and 10,535 respectively.
The number of student visa extensions increased by 50% last year to 190,000.
Thousands of immigrants are staying in the UK by extending their visas year after year in a major immigration scam. Posing as a student has become a major back door entry into the UK, official figures reveal.
Tens of thousands of tourists are arriving in the UK, and then enrolling at bogus colleges in order to get a student visa to remain here. An investigation this year exposed 250 fake colleges which were operating as highly profitable immigration scams.
The figures were compiled in a report by MigrationWatch.
For example, 425 Jamaicans applied to enter the UK as students and government figures showed that there were 780 Jamaican students in the UK in total. Yet the number of Jamaicans given visa extensions totaled 13,220. The figures for Zimbabwe are 790, 2,850 and 10,535 respectively.
The number of student visa extensions increased by 50% last year to 190,000.
posted by erc @ 4:44 pm
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