and it is a criminal act. he thinks there s an obvious way for the home office to stop this type of immigration fraud. if a child claims to be british or have a british parent and the other parent doesn t have a visa, that should ring alarm bells anyway. that should be a perfect place for them to say, right, can we have a dna test, please? no one s probably been deported over this. so there s that s why people are doing it, because there s no fear of any repercussions. the home office says it has measures in place to prevent and detect immigration fraud. it told us caseworkers receive fraud, awareness, training fraud awareness training and checks are conducted during the processing of immigration and passport applications. the law states a birth certificate alone may not be sufficient evidence of proof of paternity. where we need to establish the naturalfather, additional evidence may be requested. we contacted kim, twan and andrew about the issues raised in this film.
kim says the next step is for us to meet the potential fake dad she s got lined up. it would have to be somewhere private and we would need to bring a large deposit to secure the dad. we re obviously not going to hand over any cash to her, so we tell kim we ll think about it. to be clear, she s suggesting a strictly business arrangement. the man wouldn t have any actual role in the child s life. his name would just be put on the baby s birth certificate. the infant would get automatic british citizenship. and the mother could then apply for a family visa to stay in the uk. but could people actually get away with this? ana gonzalez has more than 20 years experience in immigration law. what legal options are available to pregnant migrant women in the uk
undercover researcher. she s come on her own. kim is confident she can get a british passport for both a woman and her baby. she s offering an illegal immigration route to stay in the uk. kim says she can find a british man to pose as the father. kim says she has a number of british men to choose from, and it s not long before the conversation turns to money.
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we re meeting at the cafe in london. we don t know what kim looks like or if she s coming alone. so the team is nearby in case anything goes wrong. so that s the place over there. i can see our undercover researcher just sitting outside the cafe at the moment. no sign of the woman yet. our undercover researcher has been waiting almost half an hour now. i don t know if this woman s going to turn up. we start to think she s messing us around or might have seen us and our cover maybe blown. and our cover may be blown. we re about to leave, but then she makes contact. i think that s her. i think that s the woman. yeah. she s just sat down with our