Migrants entering the UK have been found fabricating domestic abuse allegations to secure rapid permanent residency in Britain, exploiting protections designed for genuine victims.
Applications through the Migrant Victims of Domestic Abuse Concession have surged beyond 5,500 annually, representing an increase exceeding 50 per cent over three years, according to data obtained in a Freedom of Information request.
Lawyers told the BBC that insufficient Home Office verification processes allow these claims to succeed with minimal evidence, leaving unsuspecting British partners devastated by false accusations.
Both male and female migrants were found to be deceiving British citizens into relationships and marriages before lodging fabricated abuse claims after arriving in the UK.
Some are being coached to invent allegations by unregulated advisers advertising their services online.
During a meeting at a St Pancras hotel lounge in late February, a BBC undercover reporter posing as a Pakistani immigrant captured an immigration adviser offering to manufacture a domestic abuse claim for 900.
Eli Ciswaka, operating under the name Corporate Immigration UK, explained he would frame the case as "psychological domestic abuse" and craft a convincing narrative for the Home Office.
"How many were successful?" the reporter asked. "All of them," Mr Ciswaka replied, displaying an official Home Office approval letter from a previous client.
The adviser, who is neither a registered solicitor...
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