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Seizoen 2
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Sep 07, 2009
Britain’s biggest visa fraud case is busted by UKBA and the Met Police. Jatinder Sharma a solicitor who has previously represented Abu Hamza, set up a company called Univisa to help
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Britain’s biggest visa fraud case is busted by UKBA and the Met Police. Jatinder Sharma a solicitor who has previously represented Abu Hamza, set up a company called Univisa to help foreigners into Britain using fake documents. Sharma earned millions of pounds charging huge fees; he and his two wives were given sentences totalling 21 years.
Also in this programme is the Glasgow enforcement team who visit an Indian restaurant to find illegal workers and at Terminal 3, Heathrow, officer Lisa Lea stops a foreign student trying to enter Britain using false papers.
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Sep 14, 2009
A piece of scrub land in Calais has been nicknamed the jungle. It’s where “clandestines” lie in wait to sneak on to trucks heading for Britain. We film in the jungle to find out why,
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A piece of scrub land in Calais has been nicknamed the jungle. It’s where “clandestines” lie in wait to sneak on to trucks heading for Britain. We film in the jungle to find out why, after travelling thousands of miles, the immigrants want to go the extra mile to get into Britain and not just stay in Europe. We film with the teams whose job it is to search trucks to stop this illegal human traffic.
Also, an enforcement team in Stoke find illegal workers at a car wash firm who claim they’re 15 years old. One of the car washers we discover was recently removed from Britain to Iran after taking part in a Home Office scheme called Assisted Voluntary Repatriation. He pocketed £500 cash and a free flight. He came straight back to Britain through Calais on the back of a truck.
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Sep 21, 2009
A Jamaican man is arrested in Birmingham on his wedding day. He’s an overstayer who mistook his certificate to get married as permission to live in the UK. He was sent back to Jamaica.
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A Jamaican man is arrested in Birmingham on his wedding day. He’s an overstayer who mistook his certificate to get married as permission to live in the UK. He was sent back to Jamaica. In Glasgow a Pakistani national is arrested at the registry office minutes before he was to be married to a Scottish woman. The man claims it’s true love. The bride says she was paid to be there.
Also, the Brazilian man stopped at Heathrow wants to see his British husband. A few questions about his immigration status reveal lies, deceit and a stretch in prison.
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Sep 26, 2009
At the British High Commission in Lagos a pig farmer is quizzed about his colourful history in Britain of dodgy travel documents and a fracas with the police. He accuses the British visa
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At the British High Commission in Lagos a pig farmer is quizzed about his colourful history in Britain of dodgy travel documents and a fracas with the police. He accuses the British visa system of letting him down and preventing him from running his pig farm. Visa clearance officer Phil Morgan tries to find his way through the bluster.
In this episode, for the first time on UK Border Force, we have access to a foreign airport. At Lagos Murtala Mohammed International Airport a lone female UKBA officer advises airline staff on travellers to Britain. It’s a dangerous job and she travels to work every day in a bullet-proof car and a support jeep with armed guards. Today a pregnant woman bound for America via London is stopped at the gate. She suspects this is a plot to have the baby in America to get US citizenship. The flight is held up and tension mounts.
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Sep 28, 2009
A couple from Guyana are thought to have been living under stolen identities for over 13 years. UKBA’s Criminal Investigation Team have been investigating this for a year and we join
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A couple from Guyana are thought to have been living under stolen identities for over 13 years. UKBA’s Criminal Investigation Team have been investigating this for a year and we join them on the day they make a surprise visit to the couple’s home. This leads to confessions of guilt and relief as they reveal they got away with it for so long.
In an enforcement raid in Wales immigration officers seize a couple of illegal workers fleeing from the rear of a takeaway. There are more illegal workers found inside, some have been in the country for over a decade living below the radar of the Home Office.
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Okt 05, 2009
We have rare access behind the scenes in an Immigration Removal Centre where the UKBA officers are planning a mass deportation on a specially chartered flight, codenamed Operation
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We have rare access behind the scenes in an Immigration Removal Centre where the UKBA officers are planning a mass deportation on a specially chartered flight, codenamed Operation Aardvark. In London the enforcement team bust a network of illegal workers at the home of a Chinese takeaway owner. In a room with 6 beds they find a group of men about to eat their dinner. They also find a pregnant woman and a child but can they find any passports?
And at Heathrow, Immigration Officer Steve Hassler is on his last case before he leaves for another job. And it’s a fine end to his career as a “student” makes it difficult for him to separate truth from lies.
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Okt 12, 2009
For the first time television cameras go inside the British High Commission in Lagos, Nigeria. It’s a city that has a worldwide reputation for fraud and where travel documents are sold
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For the first time television cameras go inside the British High Commission in Lagos, Nigeria. It’s a city that has a worldwide reputation for fraud and where travel documents are sold openly on street corners. Here the UKBA visa team are swamped with applications for UK visas, and they rarely have a dull day.
Staff at a steakhouse restaurant in London’s West End are grilled by the London enforcement team. A Ukrainian waitress takes them on a wild goose chase searching for her passport. And in Calais the search teams find what’s known as an “axle-hugger” along with a group of Vietnamese perilously wrapped in plastic bin-liners as they try to avoid the officers’ CO2 probes.
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Okt 19, 2009
At Heathrow’s Terminal Two a Nigerian with a forged passport is stopped by immigration. His tales of murder and robbery are undermined by his insistence that he is only 15 years old and
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At Heathrow’s Terminal Two a Nigerian with a forged passport is stopped by immigration. His tales of murder and robbery are undermined by his insistence that he is only 15 years old and has been sent here by his Uncle London. It’s a fascinating case with a surprise ending.
Also in this episode is the “euro criminal” stopped at Calais. He was born in Lithuania, lives in Ireland, wants to travel from France to Britain and is wanted for ram-raiding in Austria. Another traveller stopped at immigration, this time in Heathrow Terminal three, is a transgendered woman who is suffering from terminal cancer and carrying just ten dollars. But does she qualify to get into the country?
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Nov 16, 2009
The owner of a nail bar in Southampton is an asylum seeker whose partner is a known illegal immigrant. He’s suspected of employing other illegal immigrants as nail technicians. The
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The owner of a nail bar in Southampton is an asylum seeker whose partner is a known illegal immigrant. He’s suspected of employing other illegal immigrants as nail technicians. The enforcement team find the owner’s girlfriend holding a baby that hasn’t been registered and the employees deny being illegal. The team has its work cut out deciding out who stays and who goes.
A traveller at Heathrow impresses immigration officer Neil Newbury with his name, Dazzling Denzel. But the light fades on his chances of entry when his bag is searched revealing some rather interesting forgeries.
Also at Heathrow a specialist customs unit are on the prowl for people about to leave Britain. They look for people carrying too much cash. The maximum amount of cash you can carry out of Britain is 10,000 Euros. The clock is ticking on an Eritrean with £15,000 in used notes who has to decide whether to catch his plane without his money or miss the flight and argue the case.
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Nov 23, 2009
A freak snow storm shuts down the British transport system. Just one flight lands at Heathrow, re-directed from Gatwick. A charismatic passenger from Antigua charms the immigration
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A freak snow storm shuts down the British transport system. Just one flight lands at Heathrow, re-directed from Gatwick. A charismatic passenger from Antigua charms the immigration staff. But his complex case creates a division between the immigration officer and her boss.
A Welsh immigration team makes a routine arrest at a Chinese takeaway but when they search for a passport they find a complicated family arrangement.
Also in this programme, customs officers at Heathrow target travellers who try to smuggle illegal animal products into Britain. They find bags of Ugandan grasshoppers, illegal Turkish cheese and the testicles of a grizzly bear.
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