Pakistani, Bangladeshi migrants pretend to be gay to remain in UK: Report

An undercover media probe has claimed that migrants from Pakistan and Bangladesh — some countries wherever homosexual relationships are outlawed — are being charged thousands of pounds by migration advisors to airs arsenic cheery successful bid to stay successful the UK.The BBC reported that its journalists uncovered however migrants nearing the extremity of their visas are being provided with fabricated screen stories and coached connected creating mendacious evidence. They are past capable to use for asylum connected the grounds that they are cheery and fearfulness for their lives if returned to Pakistan oregon Bangladesh.“The UK's asylum process offers extortion to radical who can't instrumentality to their location countries due to the fact that they would beryllium successful danger, for illustration successful countries similar Pakistan and Bangladesh wherever cheery relationships are illegal," the BBC study stated, according to PTI.“These are often radical whose student, work, oregon tourer visas person expired, alternatively than those who person conscionable arrived successful the state connected tiny boats oregon done different amerciable routes. This radical present makes up 35% of each asylum claims, which topped 100,000 successful 2025,” it added.According to Home Office statistics, Pakistan recorded the highest fig of specified asylum claims successful 2023, followed by Bangladesh. Nigeria, India, and Uganda completed the apical five.

Giving details of its operation, the BBC said it sent successful undercover reporters posing arsenic students from Pakistan and Bangladesh, with their "visas" acceptable to expire, aft gathering archetypal grounds to analyse however consenting migration advisers were to assistance radical marque up mendacious asylum claims.They discovered fake quality websites, staged governmental protests and bogus aesculapian conditions being utilized to misuse the asylum system.

Three routes for specified bogus claims emerged as: idiosyncratic who faced persecution for their intersexual orientation, their spiritual beliefs oregon their governmental views.Labour MP Jo White, a subordinate of the Parliament’s Home Affairs Select Committee, called connected Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour authorities to "crack down" connected specified instrumentality firms and advisors.White besides urged the Home Office to halt issuing survey visas to radical from Pakistan – arsenic it did past period for radical from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan implicit what it said was wide visa abuse."It is perfectly indispensable that the authorities cracks down connected them. Evidence similar this I anticipation volition spell consecutive to the constabulary and the constabulary volition statesman their enactment and interruption it apart," said White."The full strategy is rotten. The asylum strategy indispensable beryllium wholly overhauled truthful lone a precise tiny fig of radical facing existent idiosyncratic persecution with existent grounds to enactment it are fixed asylum. And amerciable immigrants should beryllium banned from seeking asylum astatine all," added Chris Philp, Opposition Conservatives’ shadiness location secretary.